Newton County, a popular tourist destination and agriculture district, is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases, concentrated in a Jasper nursing home. Mayor Jan Larson talks about response and implications.

In the fall of 1974, sitting Arkansas U.S. Senator John Fulbright was challenged by sitting Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers to a live, nationally-televised debate on the Sunday morning before Election Day. Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History revisits the event with archives from the KATV broadcast.

The governor announced 752 new cases of COVID-19 across the state, as well as an additional 11 deaths. There are now more than 6,200 active community cases and 11 counties reported at least 20 new cases. There were 81 new cases in Sebastian County, 51 in Benton County and 41 in Washington County. There were more than 7,200 tests administered bringing the month's total to more than 188,000 tests. Governor Asa Hutchinson said he's pleased with increased testing, but he isn't pleased with the

Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , discusses Walmat job cuts, trucking industry health and the search for a new director at the Fort Smith Advertising and Promotion Commission.

With a national unemployment rate of over 11 percent, many people, including thousands of Arkansans, are wondering what happens next as the pandemic unemployment benefit of an extra $600 a week runs out today and congressional lawmakers have yet to come together on what an extension of those benefits will look like.

About five years ago, the band Water Liars set up at Echo Lab studios in Argyle, Texas to record a set of tracks that would become the band's fourth album. Although the band has been on a bit of a hiatus in the intervening years, the album Roll On was released in early July. We speak with the band's Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster to learn more about the album and why it has finally been released.

As the pandemic continues, artists and arts venues press on. Becca Martin-Brown, the features editor with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , gives us the latest examples of socially-distanced arts and entertainment.

Arkansas recorded another 791 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24-hour monitoring period. Pulaski County reported 73 cases, Sebastian County had 57, Benton County had 47 and Washington County had 37. There were also eight more deaths, but there were fewer people hospitalized and in need of ventilators. Just fewer than 5,600 tests were returned and 181,000 Arkansas have been tested in the month of July. Dr. Joe Thompson, the president and CEO of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement,

Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it will reject initial requests for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, as it weighs the future of the program. This comes about six weeks after the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to end the program. We spoke with Arkansas United for reaction to the announcement and to learn what comes next.

Today's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report features a Roby Brock interview with Chad Rodgers, a practicing pediatrician and the medical director of Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care . Rodgers discusses the falling rate of child vaccinations during the pandemic, as well as the status of the search for a COVID-19 vaccine.