Lia Uribe, associate professor in the University of Arkansas Music Department, explores Afro-Cuban music and Latin Jazz this week. We hear selections from Tania Leon and Michel Camilo.

A new million-dollar fund will be used to administer grants to organizations working to improve the quality of life for LGBTQ Arkansans. The development of the grant comes after a legislative session that included several bills aimed at trans youth and adults.

Boston Mountain Solid Waste District in Prairie Grove and the city of Fayetteville have initiated a mobile household hazardous waste program for residents of Washington and Madison Counties, after a permanent hazardous waste collection site closed last year. The new mobile collection trailer, located at the Fayetteville Recycle and Material Recovery Facility on Happy Hollow Road, is open to the public every Thursday from 8am to 3pm.

Arkansas' latest plan for expanded Medicaid is being readied for submission to the White House. Governor Asa Hutchinson says he hopes for federal approval by November or December.

The Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Benton County, in Bentonville, and the Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas, headquarted in Fayetteville, are merging July 1st. CEO Tyler Clark says the process took 14 months and will offer applicants more opportunities to further education.

Courtney Lanning, film critic for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette says Pixar's Luca is a winner. She just wishes we could see it on the big sceen.

The Spoofer Stone is a legend on the University of Arkansas campus. Charlie Alison, the executive editor at the University of Arkansas, says the exact history of the stone's lore isn't known...but he's pieced together some clues about the origin.

The new book Happy Tails: Jitterbug Makes a Name for Herself is about a dog who wants more than a queit life on Bull Shoals Lake in the Arkansas Ozarks. We asked author Joy Metzer about her inspiration for the children's book.

From steel and aluminum to computer chips and even toilet paper - product shortages have brought a lot of attention to supply chains in the last year. A June report from the Institute of Supply Chain Management found that manufacturers are waiting an average of 85 days on needed items, the longest wait time recorded by the institute since 1987. Brent Williams with the Sam M Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas explains how the pandemic has changed supply chains and consumer

The Arkansas Department of Corrections has opened all Division of Correction units and Division of Community Correction centers to modified in-person visitation . A visitation pilot program has been rolled out gradually at facilities, but officials say demand has not been as high as expected.