by - September 28, 2017 9:50 pm
Cody Hiland has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., who supported Hiland for the…
by - September 28, 2017 6:49 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson gave Craighead County $1.6 million to build a mental health crisis center and Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin has been on a mission to open a homeless shelter…
by - September 28, 2017 4:10 pm
The Fort Smith capital improvement plan (CIP) advisory committee for streets, bridges, and associated drainage approved a $133 million 5-year CIP starting in 2018 with a $29.9 million spend. The…
by - September 28, 2017 11:54 am
Like father, like son. Arkansas film commissioner Christopher Crane announced Thursday (Sept. 28) that he will seek the Pulaski Circuit and County Clerk seat now held by his father, Larry…
by - September 27, 2017 8:50 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission will apply for federal grant money to fill a $32.4 million funding gap that has prevented the Missouri Department of Transportation from completing a 4.8-mile…
by - September 27, 2017 7:54 pm
The Fort Smith Police Department (FSPD) has asked the city’s Board of Directors to consider approval of approximately $790,000 in unplanned expenditures that may help bridge the equipment gap in…
by - September 27, 2017 6:58 pm
State Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, has a primary challenger in the District 53 race. Dr. Cole Peck of Jonesboro has announced he will seek the seat that covers parts of…
by - September 27, 2017 6:45 pm
President Donald Trump unveiled a comprehensive tax cut plan Wednesday (Sept. 27) in Indiana, one day after another attempt to pass a healthcare reform bill in Congress failed to muster…
by - September 27, 2017 4:58 pm
The city of Jonesboro has hired Tiffny Calloway as its new grants administrator. Calloway, who spent the past six months at the Delta Regional Authority and the previous two years…
by - September 26, 2017 6:09 pm
The U.S. Department of Commerce will give Winrock International a $279,202 grant for the Delta Innovation Fund (I-Fund) to create early-stage seed capital funds through the Economic Development Administration’s Regional…
by - September 26, 2017 5:50 pm
Fort Smith residential customers should not see any rate increases for at least another four years, if findings from third-party consulting firm Arcadis have any influence over the city’s Board…
by - September 26, 2017 5:39 pm
Only 37% of 2012 freshman students who began class at Arkansas State University graduated with a four-year degree in 2016. ASU-Jonesboro Chancellor Kelly Damphousse has formed a 15-member Chancellor’s Commission…
by - September 26, 2017 4:05 pm
Members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation said they followed up on earlier plans to ask U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry to end the agency’s participation in the controversial Clean…
by - September 26, 2017 5:39 am
Fort Smith School Board President Dr. Deanie Mehl stepped away from her post for the first time in 12 years on Monday night (Sept. 25) during the Board’s regular meeting….
by - September 25, 2017 11:08 am
In a rare public disagreement with his Republican successor, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe on Monday (Sept. 25) called the proposed Graham-Cassidy amendment to repeal and replace the Affordable Care…
by - September 24, 2017 10:01 am
Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., thinks the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal and replace Obamacare will have upside for the Natural State despite projections that Arkansas could take a $6 billion hit…
by - September 22, 2017 3:38 pm
President Donald Trump has nominated Wal-Mart Stores official Duane “Dak” Kees for the position of U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. Kees is director of global ethics governance,…
by - September 21, 2017 11:12 pm
In April 2006, then-U.S. Rep. John Boozman, R-Rogers, convened a meeting with then-University of Arkansas Chancellor John White to share his vision about establishing a World Trade Center that would…
by - September 21, 2017 10:42 pm
The Arkansas State Plant Board voted Thursday afternoon (Sept. 21) to limit the use of the herbicide dicamba to before April 16, 2018, despite a chorus of farmers asking for…
by - September 21, 2017 9:01 am
Michael Lamoureux – former State Senate President Pro Tempore, former State Representative, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s first chief of staff – has a new gig. After a stint doing consulting…
