A new blood test has received FDA breakthrough status approval that can detect more than 50 different kinds of cancer in a patient. Mercy Hospitals in Rogers and Fort Smith are among the earliest health systems to offer the test.

This week's collection of archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History places a spotlight on the cult leader Tony Alamo.

Sightings of invasive worm species are on the rise in our region. Experts says the long-term effects are unclear.

Extreme temperatures and lack of rain over the past two months in much of Arkansas have USDA Forest Service and the state forestry division on high alert for wildfire outbreaks with dozens of small fires successfully suppressed in recent weeks.

Our Friday review of news with Michael Tilley from Talk Business and Politics includes a tribute to the late Cameron Smith and a discussion about the return of bicycle police in Fort Smith.

Victor Hugo's classic is a summer treat this weekend and next in Springdale. Becca Martin Brown, the features editor with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, gives us the highlights to a busy entertainment weekend.

Paige Renée Berry performs live at KUAF in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.

A new teen romantic comedy on Prime Video checks many of the expected RomCom boxes. But our critic Courtney Lanning says it does it in a different, delightful way.

The Arkansas New Play Festival at TheatreSquared wraps up this weekend. We talked with Tony Meneses and Michelle Vazquez, playwright and director of the new play Ashes of a Great Fire.

The play The Box examines how solitary confinement is used in American prisons. Sarah Shourd, the playwright/director/actor spent more than 400 days in solitary confinement in Iran. The national tour brings the production to the Arkansas Air and Military Museum this weekend.