A University of Arkansas Honors College Signature Seminar class about global social change and making a difference locally will be offered next spring. Three scholars leading the class will deliver a virtual preview lecture Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 5:15 p.m.

This week's archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History focus on some of the infamous crime stories that have taken place across the state in the last century.

Residents of the unincorporated community of Holiday Island are expected to vote this coming election to not only incorporate as a town, but to elect their first mayor and city council. A slate of opponents, however, is waging what some describe as a disinformation campaign on the village's social media channels to upset the election.

This week, Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , discusses the latest expansion move from the Arkansas Colleges for Health Education and the possible move of another Confederate statue.

Lay's is converting millions of potato chip bags to feature the smiles of 30 ordinary people doing extraordinary things in their communities. One of those smiles belongs to Charolette Tidwell, founder of Antioch for Youth & Family . Up to $1 million in proceeds will support Operation Smile .

The expansion of Fayetteville Public Library is entering its final phase. The entire building will be closed starting Sunday, Sept. 27, until late November to wrap up construction, but many services will remain available.

As Becca Martin-Brown, the features editor with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , tells us, this weekend we can go out and enjoy some festivities with masks and social distancing, but there are plenty of virtual options too.

A new certificate program from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is offering training for aspiring farmers in an effort to reinvigorate the state's small farms and develop local foodways.

Earlier this month, Wesley McKinney, a Conway County ranger for the Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Forestry Division, returned from assisting with containment efforts on the August Complex wildfire in northern California. Since then, it has become the largest in state history as dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the western U.S.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary under President Trump, has a new book titled Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House . She discusses the memoir with Roby Brock of Talk Business and Politics in today's edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report.