1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1126+ words) Alexis Mitchell’s teenage nephew and son took a recent day off from school to help move the family’s laundry machines, bed frames and mattresses from their southwest Little Rock house into a storage unit. “Pretty much all of the stuff…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1843+ words) A Mountain Home nurse practitioner accused of assaulting patients during medical exams now faces 25 criminal charges and four civil lawsuits in Baxter County Circuit Court. Prosecuting Attorney David L. Ethredge filed an amended information against Joseph Riley Steves on Aug. 21. It…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (250+ words) Arkansas has a new state fire marshal, an office whose work reaches into every city and county in the state, including Baxter County. The Arkansas Division of Emergency Management announced Monday that Director A.J. Gary had appointed John Hogue to the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (267+ words) The number of Arkansas communities rejecting or imposing new limits on data centers is growing faster than the list of places considering such projects publicly. Madison County joined four other counties in passing a three-year moratorium on data center projects…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (882+ words) U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks wrote Friday that laws requiring all canvassers to be Arkansas residents and paid canvassers working on a statewide initiative petition or referendum to be residents living in the state violate the First Amendment of the Constitution....

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (542+ words) The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission in Little Rock voted unanimously Thursday to grant $690,625 to the Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Division of Rural Services to distribute as conservation education grants for schools during the 2026-27 school year. The money was derived…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1768+ words) The interest rate the U.S. government pays to borrow money for 30 years hit its highest level in nearly two decades this week. On Tuesday, the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond touched 5.34%, a level last seen in 2007. The 10-year Treasury note…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (441+ words) U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton will be the keynote speaker at the Marion County Republican Committee’s annual picnic dinner next month in Bull Shoals. The event is set for Friday, Sept. 18, at VFW Post 1341, 1206 Central Blvd. A meet and greet begins at…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (536+ words) The Arkansas Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that sought to reverse the secretary of state’s decision to disqualify a direct democracy ballot measure from the ballot. Supporters of the proposed constitutional amendment filed the lawsuit earlier this month after…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (269+ words) State and local police across Arkansas will step up patrols for impaired drivers starting Friday as part of a national enforcement campaign that runs through Labor Day. The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign runs Aug. 21 through Sept. 7. Arkansas…...