Arkansas News

An Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a woman's pregnancy won't take effect while a legal challenge is pending, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Leslie Newell Peacock will be in federal court for us this morning for the preliminary injunction hearing on the lawsuit challenging the new state law prohibiting most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

If you can believe a fisherman then here's a tale for you. We'll call them crappie in this story but they're known by many different names in Arkansas and southern Missouri: paper mouths, sacalait, slabs, specks and the large ones are called netters, the medium ones lifters and the small ones are called tater chips.

Investigators in Southwest Arkansas say they are facing one of the worst animal hoarding cases they've seen.

The Arkansas House Speaker is not entering the 2014 Arkansas governor's race. That's according to Talk Business, which reports Rep.

House Speaker Davy Carter is not running for governor, which took a significant amount of sizzle out of his speech at the Political Animals Club today .

The Applied Sustainability Center at the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has selected eight Arkansas cities to participate in its Sustainable Energy Scorecards and Education for Municipalities program.

Arkansas' unemployment rate dipped one-tenth of a percentage point from March to April, settling at 7.1 percent last month, according to a report Friday by the state Department of Workforce Services.

Arkansas lawmakers are returning to the Capitol to formally end this year's legislative session, the first with Republicans in control since Reconstruction.

I know a thing or two about transitions. When the editor of the Arkansas Times first asked if I wanted to contribute to Eat Arkansas , it was only a few months after the departure of Kat Robinson , a writer who has eaten and written about more places across this state than almost anyone.

Students in the practical nursing program at Arkansas State University-Searcy, a technical campus of ASU-Beebe, participated in the annual Arkansas Licensed Practical Nurse Association convention in Batesville, April 11-12.ASU-Searcy winners were Gail Adkins of Searcy placed first in pharmacology; Terri Walton of Cabot won first place in nutrition; ... (more)

Arkansans are gifted in the spring and summer with strawberries, one of the most widely loved fruits on any plate.

On Monday, the State Board of Education agreed to let the 357-student Bradley School District merge voluntarily with the not-that-much-bigger Emerson-Taylor School District.

By Bob Moos/Southwest regional public affairsofficer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMost people think they'll never need nursing home care.

Juanita's hosts "An Open Book: An Evening with Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October," 9 p.m., $25. The evening will include a Q&A, reading from his book "Crazy Making" and an acoustic set of never-before-heard songs.

Authorities say two people were killed after a ski boat crashed into a parked houseboat on a northeast Oklahoma lake.

Help pick up trash on the river and keep NWA's drinking water clean at the Eighth Annual West Fork Watershed Cleanup from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at West Fork Riverside Park, off Arkansas 170.

The 7th annual Little Rock Film Festival is now underway through Sunday. The opening film of the five-day event will be shown at 6:30 tonight.

A federal judge said Wednesday that a challenge to Arkansas' new law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy can proceed, rejecting the state's attempt to get the lawsuit dismissed.

Britain's Prince Harry capped his weeklong trip to the U.S. by winning a charity polo match at a star-studded event in Connecticut.