An artesian spring in a woodland sanctuary protected by the nonprofit Illinois River Watershed Partnership in Cave Springs illustrates an important lesson on downstream ecology.

Anna Pope caught up with Kevan Inboden, Chief Operations Officer at Beaver Water District. Water demand reduced since this past month because of rainfall and lower tempertatures. Although university students are returning to the Northwest Arkansas, Because of the area's population growth the distric has seen rebreaking-number of water use, and Inboden said there projects in the works to keep up.

Becca Martin Brown, the features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says there is a very easy way to approach all the things happening this weekend: take it one hour at a time.

The 25th edition of the Northwest Arkansas Writers Project took place this summer on the University of Arkansas campus. We asked some of the public school teachers participating how writing can help them connect to students. Today we hear from Corey Martin, a science teacher, about how storytelling in the classroom can help students connect to science.

A new Netflix vampire movie, Day Shift, includes an Oscar winner (Jamie Foxx) in the cast and a novel way to pump new blood into the genre.

As Northwest Arkansas is growing, so is the University of Arkansas. The university is expecting the largest freshman class and total student enrollment in its history. Texans had the second-highest enrollment numbers at the U of A in 2021, and as the total number of students enrolled in Oklahoma's higher ed institutions has declined each year during the pandemic, the number of Texans increased. Read more here on StateImpact's website.

Today is 8-11 and a day used to remind us to call 8-1-1 before digging. And that goes for a backyard dig as well as much bigger projects.

Wayne Miller, executive director of The Venture Center, speaks with Roby Brock about surviving and thriving through the pandemic in this week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal.

For the first time in several weeks, we take a look at what live music is happening throughout the region during the next seven days.

Plans to build a large-scale commercial glamping resort called “Contentment at Beaver Lake” to contain over a thousand campers in luxury accommodations have been tabled by Benton County planners, due to design deficits as well as sharp criticism from residents who live nearby.