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Trustees on Thursday approved an increased project budget of $137.6 million for an under-construction research facility already described as the most costly academic building ever at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee Chairman Bill Sample of Hot Springs is the highest-profile state legislator among the five Republican state lawmakers who lost in Tuesday’s primary election. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Continuing an upward trend that began last month, Arkansas’ count of coronavirus cases rose Wednesday by 556, the biggest one-day jump in more than two months. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

State Rep. Mark Lowery, R-Maumelle, overcame questions about his financial background and a slew of endorsements of the other candidate to pull off a decisive victory over state Sen. Mat Pitsch, R-Fort Smith, in the Arkansas treasurer’s race, garnering nearly 75% of the vote. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News…

Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston fended off a challenge from former state Sen. Eddie Joe Williams to win Tuesday’s Republican primary for the state’s chief election officer. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The unofficial winner of the Republican primary race for attorney general in Arkansas is Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin, according to the Associated Press, which called the race just after 9 p.m. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The three Arkansas congressmen who faced Republican challengers won by wide margins in Tuesday’s primary election. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The number of early voters in this year’s primary election substantially exceeded their ranks in the last midterm election in 2018, even though the final-day tally wasn’t yet available late Monday afternoon. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Southern Baptist Convention compiled a list of hundreds of ministers accused of sexual abuse, but its top executive, former Cross Church Northwest Arkansas Pastor Ronnie Floyd, opposed making it public and chose not to examine the list himself, according to an independent report commissioned by the denomination and made public this week. Continue Reading…

Tuition and mandatory fees are proposed to rise by 5% or more at some University of Arkansas System campuses after three years of much smaller increases. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

WEST MEMPHIS — It’s the end of an era — not just for West Memphis, where greyhound racing began more than 100 years ago on dirt tracks at local farms — but also for the state and region. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas hospitals are adjusting to a worldwide shortage of injectable fluid used for certain kinds of medical imaging, according to health officials throughout the state. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas Scholarship Lottery officials expect to begin selling a new draw game called the Arkansas Lotto later this year. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Though early voting has been higher than expected in parts of the state, the Arkansas secretary of state’s office is sticking with its forecast that about 20% of the state’s 1.7 million registered voters will cast a ballot in Tuesday’s primary election, with a U.S. Senate seat and the governor’s office at the top of…

WASHINGTON — The state’s Republican primary on Tuesday will all but decide the next congressional delegation from Arkansas given the unlikelihood of Democratic upsets in November, according to political observers and strategists. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said last month that about $86 million in federal funding to support housing stability programs wasn’t needed in the state’s current economy, but data shows evictions are higher throughout the state than they’ve been in the past five years. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press…

Arkansas’ count of coronavirus cases rose Friday by 315 — a smaller increase than the ones the previous two days but still the third-largest daily rise in almost two months. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Two out-of-state billionaires, one a liberal Democrat, the other a conservative Republican, have taken sides in the race to decide the next elected Little Rock prosecutor who will replace the retiring Larry Jegley. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

An Arkansas state lawmaker has submitted an ethics complaint against Republican Senate candidate Jake Bequette, saying the former NFL player failed to file a financial disclosure report in the required timeline under federal law. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The estate of an eccentric Heber Springs photographer who died in 1959 has been reopened. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas healthcare company OneHealth said Thursday it is purchasing the Heifer International campus as part of its plan with Lyon College to start veterinary and dental schools in Little Rock. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Cleveland County deputies arrested a man Monday who is charged with shooting a water tower last week in Kingsland, birthplace of musician Johnny Cash, poking a hole in a silhouette of the Man in Black printed on the tower, causing it to appear to be relieving itself, according to the Cleveland County Herald. Continue Reading…