Lottery dials back budget projections
The Arkansas Lottery Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a revised budget that reduces its projection for money raised for scholarships by $3 million …
The Arkansas Lottery Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a revised budget that reduces its projection for money raised for scholarships by $3 million …
The Department of Finance and Administration has not yet decided whether to appeal a $250,000 Arkansas State Claims Commission award to a technology company th…
A proposed $2 fee increase on license plate decals would likely not cover the costs to build a new, roughly $100 million prison, an official from the Bureau of…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross outraised his Republican opponent by more than $30,000 in July, according to campaign finance reports filed Friday…
Sens. Keith Ingram and Jimmy Hickey said Thursday that they will introduce a proposed constitutional amendment during the next legislative session to eliminate…
The state should provide funding to train law enforcement agencies and others in fighting human trafficking and create a board to focus on the issue, according…
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel will speak today before a United Nations committee in Geneva focused on ending racial discrimination.
Democratic attorney general candidate Rep. Nate Steel said Tuesday that he plans to address prison overcrowding in a legislative package that he will release i…
The plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the state's voter-identification law asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday to uphold a lower court's ruling that f…
Instead of having Arkansas voters pick new Supreme Court judges, Democratic Attorney General Dustin McDaniel wants the decision to be made by the governor with…
The state's general revenue collections in the first month of fiscal 2015 were lower than expected, according to a revenue report released Monday by the state …
The attorneys for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's ban on gay marriage on Monday asked any justices on the Arkansas…
Republican state Sen. Bart Hester on Friday sent a letter to Gov. Mike Beebe asking for more information about the federal government's plans to house unaccomp…
The total number of state prison inmates held in the 15 Southern Legislative Conference states has declined in recent years, while the number imprisoned in Ark…
Arkansas is one of 20 states without a law providing compensation to people who are wrongfully convicted and imprisoned.
An attorney for Little Rock law firm Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP, sent a letter to Secretary of State Mark Martin's office Monday, asking him to not cert…
State corrections officials told a joint legislative committee Thursday that they will ask the Legislature for funding during next year's session to build a ne…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross outraised his Republican opponent by $54,000 in June, according to campaign finance reports filed Tuesday with the…
The Republican National Committee group that selected Cleveland as the site for the party's 2016 national convention included a longtime Arkansas Republican wi…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Arkansas Game and Fish Commission are investigating the illegal killing of endangered birds on the Arkansas River this s…
A legislative subcommittee Tuesday rejected a $460,000 Claims Commission award to a former Clark County man who served more than 11 years in prison before a sp…
Groups supporting proposed ballot measures to allow statewide alcohol sales and raise Arkansas' minimum wage submitted signatures to the secretary of state's o…
Political leaders from both parties are talking about workforce training and say it'll be a priority when the General Assembly convenes early next year.
Gov. Mike Beebe on Thursday signed into law the handful of bills approved during this week's special legislative session, aimed at boosting funding for state s…
The cost of this week's special session is expected to be higher than the Legislature's three-day session in October because the House chambers were unavailabl…
The remaining three employees who served under former Lt. Gov. Mark Darr stepped down, as promised, Monday, five months after their boss's resignation.
The House of Representatives will return to the Old State House today to tackle substantial legislation there for the first time in more than 100 years.
A divided Arkansas Supreme Court upheld two murder convictions Thursday in separate cases out of Pulaski County.
SunTrust Mortgage Inc. has reached a nearly $1 billion settlement with the federal government and 49 states, including Arkansas, after an investigation into al…
House and Senate leaders Monday said they have agreed on the dates for a special session next week but are still awaiting a formal proclamation from the govern…
The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld Little Rock lawyer and former Democratic 2nd U.S. Congressional District candidate Herb Rule’s 2013 convictio…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross reported having $1.6 million in the bank at the end of May, leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchin…
Political watchers and the candidates for attorney general say it's likely that more money from outside groups directed at the race will pour into the state be…
Ten candidates for governor and U.S. House and Senate seats will speak at the Delta Grassroots Caucus in Little Rock today.
Leslie Rutledge handily defeated David Sterling for the Republican attorney general nomination in the primary runoff election Tuesday.
In today's runoff election, Republican voters statewide will pick their party's nominee for attorney general. Elsewhere, Republican voters in one north-central…
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's ruling denying a death-row inmate a new trial in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend.
The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a Little Rock man's drug convictions, because the traffic stop that led to his arrest was improper.
Republican attorney general candidate Leslie Rutledge had more than double the contributions of her runoff election opponent, David Sterling, since the May 20 …
The Arkansas Supreme Court violated a Little Rock man's due process rights by not granting him a new trial, while later requiring one for his co-defendant unde…
Republican attorney general candidate Leslie Rutledge has voted in five Democratic primaries and contributed to the state Democratic Party seven years ago, her…
Former Alltel customers who were each charged a $200 early-termination fee should be allowed to pursue their claims against the company in court, an attorney f…
The Arkansas Court of Appeals denied workers' compensation benefits Wednesday to an in-home caregiver who was injured in a car crash on the way to her clients'…
With the Arkansas Supreme Court reportedly months away from a ruling on the constitutionality of the state's gay-marriage ban, political watchers differ on wha…
About 200 ministers and supporters Thursday called on state officials to uphold the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman after a recent circuit …
Republican attorney general candidates David Sterling and Leslie Rutledge on Wednesday traded barbs and continued their campaigns hours after it became apparen…
Court of Appeals Judge Robin Wynne led Maumelle attorney Tim Cullen as votes were still being counted Tuesday in the only contested race for a seat on the seve…
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Friday suspended a lower court's ruling that found the state's ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court's ruling that found a man was improperly sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of p…
About 50 attorneys, former judges and representatives from advocacy groups Thursday spoke against the use of so-called "dark money" in Arkansas' judicial elect…