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Lawmakers filed a flurry of bills Wednesday aimed at addressing concerns regarding crypto mining on the first day of the fiscal session, looking for different approaches to regulating the burgeoning, and sometimes loud, industry that has frustrated many in rural Arkansas. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

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BENTONVILLE — The Northwest Arkansas Community College Board of Trustees on Monday approved extending President Dennis Rittle’s contract, according to board Chairman Mark Scott. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Former Washington Post Executive Editor and author Martin “Marty” Baron told former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. on Tuesday that journalists “have a lot of work to do” to regain the public’s declining trust in their work. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

SPRINGDALE — A 145-ton steel stage shipped piece by piece from the Netherlands will become the focal point of Luther George Park in Springdale. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A Little Rock resident got so fed up with the graffiti that he thinks plagues the city that he created his own Facebook group documenting the issue — one of the only groups of its kind in the state. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

SPRINGDALE — Prosecutors won’t file charges against a security guard in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Springdale nightclub in December, saying it appeared to be self-defense. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A 24-year-old Little Rock man who says he suffered a dangerous allergic reaction when he was served a Starbucks beverage that contained milk instead of the oat substitute he was promised is suing the Washington state-based company in Pulaski County Circuit Court. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…

A Netflix show that documents an experiment in giving Pulaski County jail inmates greater freedom shows fights, generational divides and struggles to maintain order in a series that purports to explore the prospects for criminal rehabilitation. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

While thousands of Arkansas students will be out of class during today’s total eclipse, some school districts in or near the path of totality still plan to be in session. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Allyson Bieryla, the manager of Harvard University’s Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope, was one of many out-of-towners in Little Rock’s SoMa neighborhood Sunday afternoon. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

In some circles, Arkansas is known for its sharks. Their fossilized remains are embedded in the Fayetteville Shale, which was once a muddy sea floor. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will announce his latest effort to broaden student loan relief this week for new categories of borrowers, according to three people familiar with the plans, nearly a year after the Supreme Court foiled his administration’s first attempt to cancel debt for millions who attended college. Continue Reading at NWAonline here…

The Arkansas General Assembly will convene starting Wednesday in the state’s eighth fiscal session to consider Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ proposals to increase the state’s general revenue budget by $109.3 million in the coming fiscal year and to boost state employee salaries. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…

City Church in Russellville has 26 acres of undeveloped property in the path of Monday’s total solar eclipse and it’s allowing people to pitch tents on the site — free of charge. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Pulaski County sheriff shared more information about the terms and results of a Netflix reality TV show filmed in the jail last year in his answers to questions from the Quorum Court that also touched on safety considerations and payments made to inmates’ commissary accounts. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: -…

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday signed a proclamation to call for a convention to fill the vacancy for the Republican nominee in Arkansas House District 66. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Inmates selected to participate in a Netflix series filmed in the Pulaski County jail received doubled visitation time and payments to their commissary accounts totaling $75, with the money coming from the production company, correspondence released by the sheriff’s office Thursday indicates. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…

A drug conspiracy trial for an Arkansas rap artist and others accused of drug trafficking is set to begin Tuesday morning with three defendants after two more people were removed from the defendant lineup this week. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

SPRINGDALE — Police say a man was arrested after he followed a family to their home after a traffic incident and pointed a gun at them. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

DE QUEEN — The Sevier County Medical Center board of governors voted Wednesday morning to not renew its contract with the hospital’s CEO, Lori House. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

BENTONVILLE — A former Rogers medical resident who was arrested after a woman told police he drugged and raped her pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of introducing a controlled substance into the body of another person after prosecutors agreed to drop a rape charge as part of a plea agreement. Continue Reading at NWAonline…