by - October 4, 2022 6:09 pm
Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward has been elected second vice president of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) for 2022-23 at their annual conference in Saratoga…
by - October 4, 2022 6:06 pm
Democratic Attorney General nominee Jesse Gibson says his courtroom experience makes him more qualified for the office than his GOP opponent, Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin. “I think that one of…
by - October 4, 2022 12:01 pm
Goodwill Industries of Arkansas has been awarded a Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program grant by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and Bureau of Justice Assistance…
by - October 4, 2022 11:45 am
Arkansas’ tax revenue surplus is almost $175 million to end the first quarter of Arkansas’ fiscal year (July-September 2022). Total revenue in the three month period was $2.08 billion, up…
by - October 4, 2022 9:25 am
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Commission has allocated $140.9 million for six water and wastewater projects in the state. The projects will impact about 391,000 state residents. The…
by - October 3, 2022 5:42 pm
A district judge has ruled that Arkansas’ 56 Libertarian Party candidates qualified for this year’s ballot, but the state could still appeal for future elections, and if it does, the…
by - October 3, 2022 5:25 pm
Maternal health outcomes have worsened in recent years, and they are worse in Arkansas than in other states, members of the House and Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committees…
by - October 2, 2022 10:00 am
A recent workshop held at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, coordinated by Conway-based The Conductor, led to a report with 56 recommendations for improving the entrepreneurial environment in Arkansas. Grace Rains,…
by - September 30, 2022 6:25 pm
In more than 1 in 4 census tracts in Arkansas, 50% or more of the local population had low access to healthy food sources in 2019, according to an Arkansas…
by - September 29, 2022 3:08 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday (Sept. 29) his appointment of Katie Anderson of Scott as chairman of the Public Service Commission. Her start date at the powerful regulatory agency is…
by - September 29, 2022 1:32 pm
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Thursday (Sept. 29) a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and the U.S. Department of Education. The lawsuit claims they…
by - September 29, 2022 8:45 am
Dr. Nitin Agarwal of UA Little Rock and Dr. Samer Al-Khateeb of Creighton University have received a $660,407 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)/Air Force Office of Scientific…
by - September 28, 2022 7:44 am
Arkansas voter approval in November of adult use (recreational) marijuana could add $2.4 billion to the state’s economy over five full years of implementation, and add up to 6,400 jobs…
by - September 27, 2022 4:21 pm
Dreams of building The National Cold War Center in Blytheville are one step closer to becoming a reality. Arkansas’ Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism Division of Heritage has distributed…
by - September 27, 2022 4:09 pm
The Arkansas Senate voted Tuesday (Sept. 27) to concur with a Senate Ethics Committee finding that Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, had filed a “spurious, frivolous and retaliatory” ethics petition against…
by - September 26, 2022 4:47 pm
CareSource PASSE announced Monday (Sept. 26) that David Donohue has been named market CEO in Arkansas. In this role, Donohue will oversee quality control, customer service, membership growth and retention…
by - September 26, 2022 3:52 pm
There might not be a starker contrast between two candidates seeking political office than the two in the Arkansas Senate District 20 race. Incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, and Democratic…
by - September 26, 2022 3:25 pm
The city of Jonesboro will receive federal grants totaling more than $100,000 for the Jonesboro Police Department. A no-match, $43,838 grant from the Edward Byrne Office of Justice Assistance Grant…
by - September 25, 2022 10:02 am
Matuschka Lindo Briggs, who was named in June as vice president and regional executive for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ Little Rock branch, is down with Arkansas hospitality….
by - September 25, 2022 9:34 am
Dr. Jay Barth and Robert Coon offer bipartisan analysis on every Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College Poll that comes out. In our final installment of analysis, Barth and Coon look…
