Back to school for many districts across Arkansas; North Little Rock students' standardized exam scores are improving; The cost of "squaring up" a Pulaski County high school campus is rising; The family of a man shot and killed in Little Rock in December say they're worried the case will go cold

Arkansas looking at ways to fix a teacher shortage; Up to $300 million for Arkansas water projects; The latest COVID-19 data in Arkansas; Simmons Bank Arena is no longer open for high school and college graduations; A member of the White Hall School Board has died

Arkansas retirement system's investments drop by $1.5 billion; Arkansas state senator settle with an atheist group; Active COVID cases are at a seven-week low; Bentonville based Walmart required to pay damages in the opioid crisis

Arkansas' COVID hospitalizations drop as new cases hit plateau; Panel turns down proposed charter school in Cabot; Sanders outraises Jones by $76,000 in July contributions

Investigation widens in weekend Little Rock shootings; Arkansas' active COVID case number lowest since June; Complaints about crop damage attributed to dicamba going unreported

State's annual number of motorcycle deaths keeps rising; School Safety Commission urges focus on students' mental health and well-being; study group shows that schools' speech-language pathologists are overworked and underpaid; Arkansas' covid hospitalizations, intensive-care patients fall to one-month lows

Arkansas' special session ends; Governor Hutchinson signs tax cut, school-safety funding bills into law; daily average covid death toll hits new four-month high; supporters of ivory-billed woodpecker say 2021 video shows bird in flight; Walmart to open new high-tech consolidation center in Pennsylvania

Arkansas House, Senate sign off on income tax cut proposals; state Senate approves $50 million in spending authority for school-safety measures; Arkansas covid hospitalizations fall by 28, but death toll rises by 19; second suspect arrested in Pine Bluff murder-arson; Blue Man Group coming to Little Rock next month

Arkansas Legislative committees endorse measures on tax cuts, school safety funds, in opening day of special session; State reports uptick in covid hospitalizations

Arkansas' count of hospitalized COVID patients falls to three-week low; Casino opponents fall short of signatures for extension; Little Rock mayor files for reelection