Following Black Lives Matter protests on the downtown square, one that ended in tear gas and another that ended with the police chief joining protesters in a moment of silence for George Floyd, Friday's observance of Juneteenth in Bentonville will include a community gathering with food and conversation. Juneteenth is the celebration of the end of slavery in the United States.

Joanna Krause has been selected to replace Canopy Northwest Arkansas's founding executive director, Emily Crane Linn. An agency of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Canopy has resettled over 170 international refugees in Arkansas since the nonprofit was founded in 2016. Previously, Krause served as director of Canopy’s Integration Services.

iNaturalist is a free app designed by National Geographic and the California Academy of Sciences for users to explore and connect with nature. Jennifer Ogle, University of Arkansas Herbarium Collections manager, demonstrates how iNaturalist works on trail hike along Lake Fayetteville.

As the state moves into phase two of reopening, Governor Asa Hutchinson started Monday's coronavirus response briefing by signing three executive orders instead of holding a special session of the legislature. One of the orders gives businesses immunity from lawsuits should an employee become infected with coronavirus. A second order provides immunity for healthcare workers and providers from civil liability. The third order provides workers compensation for employees who become ill with COVID

The latest poll from Talk Business and Politics /Hendrix College indicates reduced approval among Arkansans of the job President Trump is doing. Roby Brock, with Talk Business and Politics , and John Brummett, political writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, discuss what the new numbers might, or might not, mean.

University of Arkansas senior Caleb Hutcherson catches several nuisance honey bee swarms a day as a community service, but rather than exterminating the bees, he rescues them. The resettled bees live in a spacious, lakeside apiary on his family's Peck & Pick Farm in Prairie Grove where they happily produce gallons of wildflower honey, which is available for purchase.

We spend time with Randy Dixon, from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History , to learn more about the creation of a navigation system that changed how the Arkansas River flows through Arkansas and Oklahoma using archives from the Pryor Center to tell the story.

At today’s press briefing, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced there were 731 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24-hour monitoring period, the highest single-day increase since the pandemic began. That pushes the cumulative total past 11,500 with more than 4,700 active cases. Washington County has 221, Benton County 91, Madison County has 32 and Sebastian County recorded 24. With five additional deaths, the state’s death toll has risen to 176. The governor also discussed testing conducted by Tyson

Cases of COVID-19 have been skyrocketing in Northwest Arkansas over the last few weeks, so healthcare providers in the region ware launching a new campaign called "Safe and Strong" to remind residents of the serious nature of the coronavirus.

Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , helps us review the week in news with a discussion about policing in the Arkansas River Valley, Arkansas's move to a second phase of activity and the life of Ivy Owen, who was the former head of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority.