After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to end a 50-year constitutional protection to abortion, leaving it to individual state legislatures to control reproductive rights, more than two dozen states have enacted restrictions or bans so far, including Arkansas. Experts and pro-choice advocates warn abortion criminalization poses a public health threat.

The Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Unit is re-opening in Fayetteville after closing last year.

The Arkansas Legislature's special session took three days. Roby Brock, with our partner Talk Business and Politics, asks John Brummett, a political columnist with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, for his thoughts about the session.

For fans that loved New York Times' bestselling novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika Sánchez published another piece of prose for hungry audiences. Crying in the Bathroom is a raw memoir about Sanchez's life where no subjects are off limits - from mental health struggles to feminism, sex, shame, beauty standards, ambition, and religion.

Northwest Arkansas is filled with bike trails - more than 250 miles of them. But people of color are less likely to particiapate in nature-based activities, with historcal discrimination being a large factor. Arkansas Latinas en Bici’s goal is to bring more multicultural people into cycling through events, nutrition and health workshops, cycling education, bike rides and technical training.

As the fall semester begins in Arkansas, state and national health professionals are urging parents, students and schools to take precautions to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19.

Owney Madden was an infamous New York City gangster. He was feared by rivals and hunted by police. After a prison term he left for Hot Springs and stayed there until his death. This week's archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History help tell the story.

NorthWest Arkansas Community College is celebrating the first decade of its LIFE Program, a near-peer mentorship program with an aim to empower Latino youth and increase Hispanic enrollment at the school by going into area high schools to discuss the prospect of going to college. The program recently received a $432,883 grant from the Walton Family Foundation to grow their efforts.

Hundreds of artists and craftspeople have inhabited the historic artists' colony of Eureka Springs for well over a century. To preserve a growing wealth of Eureka-made art and craft works, plans for a permanent Museum of Eureka Springs Art are underway.

Though not yet back to pre-pandemic levels, traffic at the Fort Smith Regional Airport is increasing. Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics, discusses the airport numbers as well as home sales and a new director at the U.S. Marshals Museum.