A more than $2 million expansion project at Lake Fort Smith State Park first announced during the 2012 The Compass Conference has been completed, according to a statement from the Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism.
Floodgates have opened in Little Rock on tax cut proposals and voter reform measures. A Senate tax panel approved two tax breaks and one tax increase on Wednesday (March 6).
Nominations from the Fort Smith region did not make the cut, but the City of Bentonville received the Community Tourism Development Award during the Tuesday night (Mar. 5) Henry Awards presentations at the 39th Annual Arkansas Governor’s Conference on Tourism.
Former Arkansas Sen. Bill Walters of Greenwood, who served in the Senate for 18 years, has died from complications related to his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 69.
Residents who had their dreams of a larger Ben Geren Aquatic Center crushed at the Feb. 19 meeting of the Sebastian County Quorum Court may have reason to hope again following Tuesday's (March 5) meeting of the Fort Smith Board of Directors.
Undercover investigations by news organizations and special interest groups have long been a staple of American Democracy. But there is concern that bills under consideration in the Arkansas Senate could change that.
• The Senate Report: Week 7 review
When I ran for office the first time, I didn’t know what a State Representative or Senator did. I had never been to the Capitol. I didn’t know how a bill became a law. Sound familiar to you?
A recent report from the United States Census Bureau ranks the state of Arkansas as one of the top states for disability prevalence among the total population.
More students who used vouchers in a Washington, D.C., program to attend private schools graduated from high school than students in public schools who did not receive the vouchers, according to a University of Arkansas researcher.
Gov. Mike Beebe, D-Arkansas, today (Mar. 4) vetoed Senate Bill 134, which would have prevented some abortions from taking place as soon as 12 weeks after conception.
In 2010, Republicans did not even field a candidate for attorney general, but that may change in 2014 if a North Little Rock attorney jumps into the race.
David Sterling confirmed Monday that he is exploring a run to be the state's top attorney.
More than 12,000 lottery-funded scholarships were issued to residents of Benton and Washington counties, with more than 6,600 such scholarships awarded to residents in Crawford and Sebastian counties.
Voters in Sallisaw will go to the polls tomorrow to decide the fate of a new middle school in the district that comes with a price tag of more than $15 million.
Fiscal cliff-related delays in the filing and processing of federal tax returns are being blamed for a more than 12% decline in individual tax refunds to Arkansans for the first eight months of the fiscal year, with most of the declines in the January and February reporting periods.
Fort Smith Director Keith Lau wasn’t just talking when he said the Board should remove from its agenda an ordinance request from Whirlpool Corp. that would ban groundwater drilling in certain areas of the city.
