Rural landowners in northwest Arkansas are eligible to receive guidance as well as financial assistance with repairing or replacing failing septic systems, under a new program launched this spring by the Illinois River Watershed Partnership — the first program of its kind in Arkansas.

There is music, an art party, new museum exhibitions, new art and more this weekend. Becca Martin Brown, the features editor with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , says you'll need to plan carefully and be prepared to hustle to do everything.

Opal Agafia has her first full-band show of the year scheduled for May 28 at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville. Red Oak Ruse is scheduled to open the show. Opal and Michael Schembre recently stopped by our Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to give us a preview and to perform a few songs.

As vaccines became available, the University of Arkansas had to have a plan for getting shots to teenage students, faculty older than 70 and everybody in between. We continue our series of conversations with instructors involved in the University of Arkansas Honors College forum dedicated to vaccines.

Governor Asa Hutchinson announced on Wednesday that the Arkansas Public Health Emergency declaration will expire may 30. He says the pandemic, however, continues.

The GOP candidates for Arkansas governor in 2022 are familiar political names in Arkansas. The Democrats? No so much. This week's Northwest Arkansas Business Report includes a conversation with one of the three Democrats running: James "Rus" Russell.

This week, University of Arkansas music professor Lia Uribe brings us selections from William Grant Still's Lyric Quartette. The selections are from a recent live performance by the Dover Quartet during Artosphere at Walton Arts Center .

Families worried about having enough food during the COVID-19 pandemic are three times more likely to experience anxiety or depression than those who have lost jobs. That’s according to research by three Arkansas agricultural economists that's been published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Public Health .

The work to fix the crack on the bridge between West Memphis and Memphis could begin this week. Yesterday the governors from two states discussed the importance of the bridge and of safety.

The entire team at ArkansasCovid.com worked on a new report about how the virus affected people working at poultry plants. We talk with Abby Zimmardi, Rachell Sanchez-Smith, Mary Hennigan and Rob Wells about the work they and their colleagues did.