State legislators' files sought
Lawmakers have approved a request to allow the Bureau of Legislative Research to hire outside counsel to deal with requests from unnamed federal investigators …
Lawmakers have approved a request to allow the Bureau of Legislative Research to hire outside counsel to deal with requests from unnamed federal investigators …
State legislators have approved a request to allow the Bureau of Legislative Research to hire outside counsel to deal with requests from unnamed federal invest…
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will leave Saturday for his sixth trip to drum up foreign business interest in Arkansas.
Rules and regulations to govern the upcoming legal use of medical marijuana by Arkansans have cleared their second legislative hurdle but face a final test Fri…
The Libertarian Party of Arkansas delivered more than 15,000 signatures to Secretary of State Mark Martin's office Monday to once again become a "new political…
Three weeks after Mary Robin Casteel submitted a letter of resignation from Alcoholic Beverage Control, she was named head of the state agency.
The Arkansas Supreme Court changed judicial rules on Thursday to give the Court of Appeals more work, for the second time in about three months.
A Fort Smith attorney announced her intention Wednesday to run for the House seat now held by Rep. Mat Pitsch.
When a foster parent in Arkansas is accused of harming a child, an automated system now in effect kicks into action to notify state employees involved in the c…
A Fort Smith attorney announced her intention Wednesday to run for the House seat now held by Rep. Mat Pitsch.
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission set the stage for the state to begin accepting applications for medical marijuana sellers and growers by finalizing t…
Arkansans submitted hundreds of ideas to Gov. Asa Hutchinson's virtual suggestion box in its first week, asking for changes affecting everything from beer sale…
The director of Arkansas' Alcoholic Beverage Control and two lawyers are leaving in a flurry of resignations that leaves the agency with no attorneys.
Strong population growth in Northwest Arkansas overcame losses in the Delta and Pine Bluff to increase Arkansas' overall population last year, according to new…
The Arkansas Supreme Court is disputing several points made by a Court of Appeals judge who berated the high court about a decision to shift some post-convicti…
A footnote in an Arkansas Supreme Court ruling this spring offloaded the bulk of post-conviction cases from its docket.
The Arkansas Legislative Council gave final approval Friday to spending $10.2 million worth of rainy day funds, with the majority going toward corrections depa…
The Arkansas Supreme Court, citing a new constitutional amendment, on Thursday ordered the end of a lawsuit challenging economic-development contracts by Littl…
Gov. Asa Hutchinson wants to solicit the public's help in overhauling state government.
Officials overseeing Arkansas' prison, probation and parole systems said this week that they will ask for a sit-down with Gov. Asa Hutchinson after being saddl…
A panel of lawmakers Wednesday declined to review a request to allow more state money to be spent on $170,000 worth of outstanding legal fees incurred by Arkan…
Fort Smith will have a new state senator in 2019.
Foster parents in Arkansas are as likely to be recruited by the state as by Christian organizations, according to information from the agency that oversees fos…
The state agency tasked with administering food programs that were plagued by fraud totaling millions of dollars was the subject of several critical findings r…
First lady Susan Hutchinson wants to obtain a collection of world-class paintings for public display in the Arkansas Governor's Mansion.
Owners of out-of-state marijuana businesses told a room full of Arkansas students, activists and business owners at a Clinton School of Public Service panel di…
About 50 people gathered Monday outside U.S. Rep. French Hill's Little Rock office to protest his vote for the Republicans' American Health Care Act.
The federal budget approved this week by the U.S. House and Senate prevents money from being spent to hinder Arkansas' effort to allow patients access to medic…
The first statewide coding competition ended with first- and second-place finishes for Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts teams and with a …
Rules and regulations to govern the upcoming legal use of medical marijuana by Arkansans cleared their first legislative hurdle Wednesday, despite a local-owne…
A proposal to move 60,000 people off Arkansas' expanded Medicaid program was approved by the House and Senate on Tuesday despite objections by some lawmakers t…
On the first day of a special session called to deal with health care, a state senator on Monday repeated his call for the House to impeach a Pulaski County ci…
Local governments across Arkansas are the key to implementing the voter-approved Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment, but some county and city officials say t…
The state Democratic Party will not use abortion-rights support as a litmus test for new candidates, despite a comment stating the opposite by the chairman of …
A high-cost lender has closed its store in North Little Rock, several weeks after lawmakers approved a bill aimed at shuttering its business model.
The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed a murder conviction because prosecutors brought up a past incident that a lower court said was off-limits.
The Arkansas Supreme Court halved a tardy lawyer's fines in a decision Thursday and said it did so because the constitution allows it, and not on the basis of …
The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed a murder conviction because state lawyers brought up a past incident that a lower court said was off-limits.
The true meaning of recess was integral to an Arkansas Court of Appeals decision released Wednesday.
A woman who waged a nearly four-year fight to gain access to the Arkansas State Police investigation into her grandmother’s 1963 abduction and killing will hav…
A woman who waged a nearly four-year fight to gain access to the Arkansas State Police investigation into her grandmother's 1963 abduction and killing will hav…
Growth in the number of children in foster care has plateaued since hitting a record high last year, the director of the Division of Children and Family Servic…
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton and U.S. Rep. French Hill faced an emotional crowd of 1,000 people Monday at a joint town-hall-style meeting in Little Rock where the two …
Rules governing who gets to grow and sell medical marijuana were given final approval by the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission on Tuesday, but must survive…
The man who got the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment on last year's ballot is giving the Legislature an A for not infringing on the voter-approved measure,…
One of the bills enacted in the recent legislative session was aimed at stopping one sort of money lender from counting fees separate from interest, but anothe…
A Jonesboro family-values group is asking Gov. Asa Hutchinson to suspend issuance of new alcohol permits, saying that the number of enforcement officers is too…
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission decided Wednesday to license dispensaries based on the merit of their applications after listening to criticism of it…
A Jonesboro family-values group is asking Gov. Asa Hutchinson to suspend issuance of new alcohol permits, saying that the number of enforcement officers is too…
A revived bid to pass a bill on the collection of online sales taxes failed in the House on Monday, the last full day of the Arkansas General Assembly's regula…