State ceases daily update of covid cases on website
The Arkansas Department of Health has stopped daily updates on covid-19 data -- two months after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive directing the …
The Arkansas Department of Health has stopped daily updates on covid-19 data -- two months after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive directing the …
The Arkansas Department of Health has stopped daily updates on covid-19 cases and deaths and has shifted to a new data hub with weekly updates. The data hub al…
The Vincent Parks Act was signed into law Monday by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, with Parks' widow at her side.
Citing declining demand, a drive-thru clinic in Central Arkansas that once saw hundreds of people a day recently became the latest covid-19 testing site to shu…
Jack Holt Jr., remembered as an architect of Arkansas' modern justice system, died Sunday at the age of 93.
In the seconds after a doctor told Christina Parks her husband was dead, she didn't have time to process the pain.
Ban OK'd on rules for short-term rent
James Daniel Simpson, III, well known as J.D., was instrumental in bringing the largest retailer in the world to public trading and also, quietly, financially …
A bill to require that training officers at law enforcement and fire academies be trained and certified in recognizing conditions in trainees that could be lif…
James Daniel Simpson, III, well known as J.D., was instrumental in bringing the largest retailer in the world to public trading and also, quietly, financially …
"It is a sobering milestone to me," Robert Hopkins, director of the division of general internal medicine at UAMS, said.
The bags under Qusai Husien's eyes revealed his missed nights of sleep -- three since the earthquake hit and many during his lifetime in Syria.
A $700,000 federal grant awarded to central Arkansas will be used to create a plan for reducing roadway deaths and serious injuries.
The wife of Vincent Parks, an officer who died while training at the state's police academy in July, issued a statement Wednesday calling for policy changes at…
The Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training has completed an internal investigation into the death of Jonesboro officer Vincent Parks at …
Legislators filed a bill late Wednesday that would make hazing at the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy a felony, but its sponsor doesn't plan to move …
For the first time in months, influenza activity in Arkansas has dropped from the highest intensity levels to low, according to data from the Arkansas Departme…
Arkansas health officials are watching as some cases of the newest covid-19 omicron variant, XBB.1.5, have been confirmed in the state.
Influenza circulation remains high in the state, with deaths recorded doubling this week and flu-related hospital admissions increasing, according to a state r…
The Arkansas State Police is investigating the death of an 18-year-old who was shot while walking through a front yard in Lake Village.
Griffin Jasper Stockley was remembered Wednesday as a "conscience of Arkansas" through his work as an author, historian and attorney.
A Howard County hospital is the latest Arkansas health care provider to announce a data security breach that could put patients and employees at risk, per a ho…
The rise of covid-19 cases and continually high spread of influenza through the holiday season have combined to put a strain on the state's hospital system as …
The state has recorded 101 deaths and 17,800 positive flu tests since the season started in October.
An investigation file in the death of Vincent Parks on his first day of training at a state police academy lays out two different stories -- one from the staff…
Arkansas State Police investigators were originally led to believe Jonesboro police officer Vincent Parks did not engage in physical activity before falling fa…
Arkansas State Police investigators were originally led to believe Jonesboro Police officer Vincent Parks did not engage in physical activity before fatally fa…
A portion of the Arkansas State Police file reviewing the death of officer Vincent Parks, who died on his first day at a state run police academy, is expected …
An investigative file on the death of Jonesboro officer Vincent Parks, 38, revealed "concerning issues with the culture" of the state's training facility, incl…
An investigative file on the death of Jonesboro officer Vincent Parks, 38, revealed “concerning issues with the culture” of the state’s training facility, incl…
As Arkansas hospitals treat hundreds of patients for covid-19, cases of severe influenza also are rising in the state, with 15 deaths and 165 hospital admissio…
As Arkansas food banks move into the season of giving, the organizations need more help than ever to keep those in the state fed.
As flu cases tick up in the nation and state, Arkansas medical officials are urging those who haven't already received a covid-19 booster or flu vaccine to do …
Left with about half of its revenue after voters slashed its funding, the Craighead County Jonesboro Library System is looking for a way to live in its new rea…
Craighead County and Jonesboro voters Tuesday voted to slash funding to their library system -- which has been criticized recently for excessive spending and L…
In an age where technology is often obsolete soon after it advances, the Mississippi River's importance to everyday life can at times be forgotten -- that is u…
Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park has been renamed Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park to more accurately identify the local people who built the m…
An initiative to cut nearly half of the Craighead County Jonesboro Library System's funding will go before voters next month in an effort by a group of citizen…
The grounding of most of the C-130 Hercules cargo plane fleet by the United States Air Force is causing training readjustments at the Arkansas Air National Gua…
Former Glenwood doctor Barry Alan Walker was handed 21 life sentences Thursday in Clark County, one day after he received 18 life sentences in Pike County afte…
Former Glenwood doctor Barry Alan Walker was handed 21 life sentences Thursday in Clark County, one day after he received 18 life sentences in Pike County afte…
A former Arkansas doctor was sentenced Thursday in Clark County to 21 life sentences for the sexual assault of children, one day after he was sentenced in Pike…
A former Arkansas doctor was sentenced to 18 life sentences in Pike County on Wednesday for the sexual assault of 12 children, the special prosecutor said.
Six months ago Aanika Owens-Payton was in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility and separated from her children who were in the custody of the Arkansas De…
LITTLE ROCK -- Our House, a nonprofit dedicated to serving homeless Arkansans, announced Thursday $2.5 million in donations, bringing the organization near the…
An Arkansas State Police investigative case file on the death of a Jonesboro police officer who died while training at a state police academy has been moved to…
Our House, a nonprofit dedicated to serving homeless Arkansans, announced Thursday $2.5 million in donations, bringing the organization near the finish line of…
Julia Hughes Jones -- a trailblazer for women in Arkansas -- died at 83 in St. Augustine, Fla., on Wednesday.
The midterm election is nine weeks away, and Pulaski County's Quorum Court's District 10 seat remains in uncertainty.
Cody Hiland, chief counsel for the Arkansas Department of Public Safety, has been hired by Republican gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders' campaign.