Short-term rentals have grown in popularity in areas it is allowed on the Franklin County side of Smith Mountain Lake. That ...

Franklin County leaders want to pressure the Tri-Cities’ health district to stop offering COVID-19 vaccinations. The move comes after Commission Chairman Clint Didier invited a group behind ...

Franklin County Sheriff’s Office staff in uncomfortable situation. Raymond ordered deputies and commanders multiple times to collect the guns, Tasers, pepper spray, and riot equipment from the ...

Franklin County sheriff’s office commanders and deputies want their boss to stop telling them to violate court orders. Sheriff Jim Raymond responded by calling it a “mutiny.” The unions that ...

I’ve watched Franklin County get lost in the dust 100 times in sports, in teaching, in morale and I am exhausted with it as an educator, and I want to be in the front for once.” But others ...

Residents and local officials say they were blindsided by the news that Gov. Sarah Sanders and other state officials have selected Charleston, in south Franklin County, as the site of a massive ...

Franklin County officials and the Chickamauga tribe challenge Arkansas' prison plan as funding stalls and concerns over site transparency grow. ... George "Clay" Mitchell. Fort Smith Southwest Times ...

“But because we’re not building enough housing…homelessness last year went up six times faster than the population growth of Franklin County last year,” Wilkos said. The Community Shelter Board ...

Franklin County Fire and EMS Chief Mike Fowler said the county currently employs nearly 60 paid EMS staff. “That number about 30 years ago was zero,” Fowler said. People are also reading… ...