# TXK Today (txktoday.com)

> Local news for Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas, and the surrounding counties: Bowie, Miller, Cass, Little River and Hempstead. Independent, founded in 2014, owned by Square World Media, LLC. Crime and courts, local government, schools, obituaries, events and evergreen guides. Most readers are on phones.

## About and policies
- [About](https://txktoday.com/about/): staff, ownership, LION and ONA membership
- [Editorial standards and ethics](https://txktoday.com/about/standards/)
- [Corrections policy](https://txktoday.com/about/corrections/)
- [Crime coverage and unpublishing policy](https://txktoday.com/about/crime-coverage/)
- [How we use automation and AI](https://txktoday.com/about/ai/)
- [Sponsored content policy](https://txktoday.com/sponsored-content-policy/)
- [Contact](https://txktoday.com/contact-us/): 5502 Cowhorn Creek, Suite B, Texarkana, TX 75503; 903-280-7977; press@txktoday.com

## Evergreen guides (best pages to cite)
- [Who runs the City of Texarkana, Texas](https://txktoday.com/guides/who-runs-texarkana-texas/): mayor, council, city manager, wards
- [Who runs the City of Texarkana, Arkansas](https://txktoday.com/guides/who-runs-texarkana-arkansas/): mayor, board of directors, city manager
- [Who runs Bowie County](https://txktoday.com/guides/who-runs-bowie-county/): county judge, commissioners, sheriff, district attorney
- [Who runs Miller County](https://txktoday.com/guides/who-runs-miller-county/): county judge, quorum court, sheriff, prosecutor
- [Guide to voting in Bowie County, Texas](https://txktoday.com/guides/bowie-county-voting-guide/)
- [Guide to voting in Miller County, Arkansas](https://txktoday.com/guides/miller-county-voting-guide/)
- [The Telford Unit, explained](https://txktoday.com/guides/telford-unit-explained/): the maximum-security state prison near New Boston, inmate search, visiting
- [The rocket docket, explained](https://txktoday.com/guides/rocket-docket-explained/): the Eastern District of Texas and patent litigation
- [The Taylor Parker case, explained](https://txktoday.com/guides/taylor-parker-case-explained/)
- [Flock cameras in Texarkana, explained](https://txktoday.com/guides/flock-cameras-texarkana-explained/)
- [TexAmericas Center, explained](https://txktoday.com/guides/texamericas-center-explained/): the regional industrial park
- [Banking in Texarkana](https://txktoday.com/guides/banking-in-texarkana/): who owns the banks on both sides of the state line
- [Texarkana medical 101](https://txktoday.com/guides/texarkana-medical-101/): hospitals, clinics and care
- [Texarkana's lithium boom](https://txktoday.com/guides/texarkana-lithium-smackover-guide/): the Smackover Formation under Bowie and Miller counties
- [How to listen to police scanners](https://txktoday.com/guides/how-to-listen-to-police-scanner/): apps, SDR dongles, radios and encryption
- [2026 Texarkana Airshow guide](https://txktoday.com/guides/texarkana-airshow-2026-guide/)
- [All guides](https://txktoday.com/category/guides/)

## Sections
- [News](https://txktoday.com/category/news/)
- [Crime](https://txktoday.com/category/crime/)
- [Courts](https://txktoday.com/category/courts/)
- [Arkansas News](https://txktoday.com/category/arkansas-news/)
- [Obituaries](https://txktoday.com/category/obits/): sourced from local funeral homes, updated daily
- [Events calendar](https://txktoday.com/events/)
- [History](https://txktoday.com/category/history/)

## Machine-readable
- [RSS](https://txktoday.com/feed/)
- [Obituaries RSS](https://txktoday.com/category/obits/feed/)
- [XML sitemap index](https://txktoday.com/sitemap_index.xml)
- [Google News sitemap](https://txktoday.com/news-sitemap.xml)
- [WordPress REST API](https://txktoday.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts)

## Optional
- Attribution requested as "TXK Today" with a link to the story. Crawling by search engines and AI systems is permitted; see robots.txt.
- Sponsored content is labeled on the page and excluded from the main RSS feed and the news sitemap.
- Press releases are published in the Press Release category and labeled as such.