by - July 2, 2020 3:07 pm
“Obviously, this is not good news,” Arkansas Secretary of Health Dr. Nate Smith said Thursday (July 2) after the state again set a record for known COVID-19 cases reported in…
by - July 2, 2020 12:05 pm
Fiscal year 2020 (July 2019-June 2020) tax revenue ended down just 2.5% despite several months in early 2020 of economic disruption resulting from COVID-19 shutdowns. The revenue was 4.1% above…
by - July 1, 2020 5:19 pm
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, the first Republican and the first female elected to the office, says she will run for governor in 2022. “Today, I am announcing my candidacy…
by - July 1, 2020 3:19 pm
Do you want football in the fall? Wear a mask. Do you want to avoid a growing number of known long-term health problems resulting from COVID-19? Wear a mask. Such…
by - June 30, 2020 10:19 pm
The Social Justice Institute at Philander Smith College (SJI) has announced a new partner for its Undergraduate Fellowship program. The Wright Lindsey Jennings law firm has pledged a two-year collaborative…
by - June 30, 2020 8:55 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors agreed at a special study session Tuesday (June 30) to continue collecting recycling with the understanding residents will be faced with higher sanitation fees….
by - June 30, 2020 7:16 pm
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission released additional cultivation and dispensary licenses on Tuesday (June 30). In a 3-2 vote, the commission released the two remaining cultivation licenses. The state now…
by - June 30, 2020 4:15 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday (June 30) that better-than-anticipated tax revenue allows him to authorize a 2.2% merit pay increase for all state employees. The governor said the state will…
by - June 30, 2020 3:48 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson continues to say a statewide mask mandate is not right for Arkansas, pushing back against a growing number of states and cities enacting similar measures and against…
by - June 29, 2020 6:09 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s Secretary of Corrections, Wendy Kelley, will retire at the end of July, it was announced at a Board of Corrections meeting on Monday (June 29). Kelley has…
by - June 29, 2020 5:52 pm
The Fort Smith Advertising and Promotion Commission will seek guidance from the city of Fort Smith’s personnel director on searching for a new director. Claude Legris is resigning as the…
by - June 29, 2020 3:15 pm
Craighead County Clerk Kade Holliday has been charged with stealing $1 million in public funds since January, according to the Second Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington. Holliday, 31, of…
by - June 29, 2020 2:57 pm
The pace of new known COVID-19 growth in Arkansas slowed over the weekend and on Monday (June 29), but Gov. Asa Hutchinson said there is a “great deal of concern”…
by - June 26, 2020 4:56 pm
Arkansas voters can request an absentee ballot to avoid exposure to the COVID-19 coronavirus, Secretary of State John Thurston said June 25. But one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit…
by - June 26, 2020 3:36 pm
A day after Gov. Asa Hutchinson noted recent declines in new known COVID-19 cases in Northwest Arkansas, cases in that area rose almost 35%, and the state reached on Friday…
by - June 25, 2020 5:06 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors is set to begin a mid-year review of the $42.5 million general fund budget and the $125.147 million in operating budget expenditures in the…
by - June 25, 2020 3:32 pm
Early signs of a decline in the growth of COVID-19 cases in Northwest Arkansas was touted Thursday (June 25) by Gov. Asa Hutchinson as a sign his strategy is working…
by - June 24, 2020 7:41 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he hopes to make a decision by August 1 regarding allowing voters in Arkansas more flexibility to vote absentee this November. He made the comment at…
by - June 24, 2020 4:15 pm
Fort Smith achieved an Insurance Service Office (ISO) rating of Class 1, the most elite classification in the country, at the end of 2016, and everything is on track to…
by - June 24, 2020 3:11 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson is asking for $22 million in federal funds set aside for pandemic response to hire an additional 350 contact tracers needed as the number of COVID-19 cases…
