According to a new data brief from the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement , the number of Arkansans receiving opioid prescriptions is decreasing while the number of individuals receiving prescriptions for the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone is increasing. Arkansas has the second highest opioid prescribing rate in the country.

When he was a child, Commander John Herrington would play in a cardboard refigerator box and imagine he was an astronaut. In 2002, he became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. Early next month, he'll be part of a conversation sponsored by the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville.

This week's trip through archives at the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History reintroduces us to John L. Ferguson, who served as the Arkansas state historian for 45 years.

Michael Tilley, with Talk Business and Politics , discusses a slow recovery for the airport in Fort Smith as the pandemic moves into a seventh month. He also discusses the upkeep of a historic cemetery in the city and more.

Since March, the City of Eureka Springs has been negotiating how to operate its tourist economy after a global pandemic was declared – a core issue of this year’s tightly contested City Council race.

Ansel Adams' photographs of the western U.S. helped define the 20th century vision of the American landscape. Ansel Adams in Our Time features more than a hundred of the photographer's works displayed alongside 19th century artists, as well as Adams' contemporary successors. The exhibit is on view Sept. 19 through Jan. 3.

Becca Martin-Brown, the features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , is back with a list of in-person and virutal events for the final weekend of summer. And it's the longest list we've seen in months.

This week, the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Benton County Historical Society unveiled their plans for James H. Berry Park, which will be home to the Confederate monument that stood on the Bentonville square since 1908. The monument was removed earlier this month. It will be restored and eventually will be the centerpiece of the privately-owned park that will be open to the public.

Elevate Growth Partners is a Texas-based firm with a goal of changing commercial real estate using technology. Kenny Tomlin, the co-founder and CEO, who has deep ties to Northwest Arkansas, discusses that plan with Paul Gatling in this week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report.

The course Food Matters, offered by the University of Arkansas Honors College next spring, will explore many different ways food has an impact on our lives. A preview lecture will take place, via Zoom, Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 5:15 p.m.