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Arkansas’ unemployment rate continued to improve in January, falling to 3.2% and remaining well below the national average of 4%. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The number of covid-19 patients in Arkansas hospitals continued falling on Monday, with the number in intensive care reaching its lowest level in more than 10 months. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

North Little Rock police are investigating a homicide that happened in the 800 block of West 38th Street on Sunday night, a news release says. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A legal challenge to the state’s congressional redistricting map is a much-needed pushback to district lines that undermine Black voting strength in one of the state’s most populous counties, according to Democrats in Arkansas. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Larry Tyler wants to live just one day longer than his wife, Earlene. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

PINE BLUFF — In early March 2020, nurse Erin Bolton laughed in her office at Jefferson Regional Medical Center at a question from Dr. Steven Wright. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

When the covid-19 pandemic hit the state on March 11, 2020, hospital administrators were thrust into the unknown. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

In a rare occurrence for Arkansas, a law enforcement officer is set to stand trial Tuesday for a fatal on-duty shooting. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Arkansas Department of Transportation will hold an in-person public meeting Thursday in Alma to discuss plans to develop Interstate 49 between Interstate 40 in Crawford County and Arkansas 22 in Sebastian County. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The number of Arkansas counties subject to a recommendation that residents wear masks in indoor public places fell from 16 to just two under the latest update to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map of “covid-19 community levels.” Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

The Arkansas Department of Transportation asked the state Supreme Court to erase $18 million in attorney fees awarded in a lawsuit that successfully challenged the agency’s spending on two major road construction projects, arguing in a brief filed Friday that “winning an illegal exaction lawsuit should not be the equivalent of winning the lottery for…

A “sweep” at a south Little Rock apartment complex in February that Mayor Frank Scott Jr. cited as part of the city’s effort to prevent violent crime resulted in more than 100 violations, but only one — a traffic court citation — was criminal. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News…

The former sheriff of Franklin County was sentenced to four years in prison for physically abusing jail detainees on two occasions. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The surging price of gasoline has Vicki Skaggs, a Benton office manager, eventually planning on slicing her lottery ticket purchases. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

With Arkansas’ new coronavirus cases and number of hospitalized covid-19 patients continuing to decline from the levels they reached during a surge of infections from the omicron variant, the number of the state’s virus patients who were in intensive care fell below 100 on Wednesday for the first time since June. Continue Reading at NWAonline…

The National Archives and Records Administration has appointed a new director for the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Numbers provided by the city Wednesday showed that incidents of battery and terroristic threatening are down in Little Rock compared with this time last year, but a police official said there have been more victims than in the same period in 2021. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…

2 people were killed in a residential fire Tuesday night in Pope County, according to deputies. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The U.S. House unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday condemning bomb threats made this year against historically Black colleges and universities in Arkansas and across the nation. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The National Weather Service has confirmed another Arkansas tornado from Sunday’s storms, bringing the total to three so far. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Identical proposed Revenue Stabilization Acts authorizing a $175.1 million increase in the state’s general revenue budget to $6.02 billion in the coming fiscal year sailed through the Arkansas House of Representatives and Senate on Tuesday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday signed into law two bills that open the door for a more than $11,000 increase for state police troopers’ starting salaries and create a one-time stipend for several thousands of local and state law enforcement officers. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…