Springdale-based medical diagnostic biotechnology firm, NOWDiagnostics , has developed a rapid COVID-19 antibody test. The test, which is pending approval for emergency use by the FDA, will be made available to clinics, labs and for at-home use. It requires a drop of blood and provides results within 15 minutes.

In-person learning resumed on Monday in many of Arkansas's public schools. We check in with a student on her way to class at Fayetteville High School and we speak with the superintendent of Rogers Public School s about how the district has been preparing for reopening.

Dogpatch USA was developed in the late 1960s in the Arkansas Ozarks. Archives provided by the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History take us through the best days of the amusement park and through the beginning of the end with the introduction of a snow skiing attraction.

The Giving Tree is making an early appearance in KUAF's lobby. Instead of collecting donations for a local organization during the holiday season, we've set up the Giving Tree in August to collect donations of personal protective equipment for public schools. General Manager Leigh Wood explains how it works.

This month, the Arkansas Department of Health cleaned up its COVID-19 data, which included adding 20,000 missing test results to Washington County's data set. The missing tests were mostly negative, which decreased the county's positivity rate from 20 percent to about 12. The correction also means that Washington County was testing at about the same rate as Benton County this whole time.

On Friday, three days before the start of school, the Arkansas Department of Health reported 887 new cases of COVID-19, as well as 22 additional deaths. Fifteen counties had more than 20 new cases, including 57 in Washington County, 47 in Benton County, 38 in Sebastian County, and 23 in Crawford County. Hospitalizations rose by ten people, bringing that total to 509. There were also more people on ventilators. Governor Asa Hutchinson announced the state has completed testing all inmates at

Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , discusses an increase in coronavirus cases in Sebastian County, school construction projects in Fort Smith, and the chances of a downtown entertainment district in Fort Smith becoming permanent.

In addition to town and city level COVID-19 data, the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement in Little Rock is now also posting school district data. The interactive map reveals both active and community cases by district. ACHI President and CEO Dr. Joe Thompson details how it works, and how it will help.

After four hours of hearing from school and police department officials, as well as the public on Tuesday, the Fayetteville City Council essentially rejected a grant that would have funded two more school resource officers in the Fayetteville School District. While some residents offered their support, critics of the SRO program pointed to statistics that show more than half of the arrests made by Fayetteville SROs since 2016 were of Black students.

It’s been 100 years since American women were granted the right to vote. The 19th Amendment was ratified on Aug. 18, 1920 and this week we’re partnering with the League of Women Voters of Washington County to celebrate the centennial by hearing what voting has meant to the lives of some of their members. Today we hear from Raven Cook.