John Walker, a towering figure in Arkansas political history, died Monday at the age of 82. Some of the reporters who covered him remember his passion.

The University of Arkansas partnered with J.B. Hunt to purchase a new shuttle for students who travel between the main campus and the Research and Technology Park in south Fayetteville.

After several attempts to incorprate the 1970s planned recreational community of Holiday Island in northern Carroll County, residents are circulating a petition to place the measure on the November 2020 general election ballot.

North Forest Lights is on display through Feb. 16 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Moment Factory, a Montreal-based multimedia and entertainment studio, helped create the artistic light and sound experience.

Natalie Bartholomew is the creative force behind The Girl Banker podcast and blog and now, she is teaming up with Roby Brock, from our partner Talk Business and Politics , on a video series.

The City of Fayetteville recently hired its first-ever Business Development Manager to recruit retailers, restaurants and other neighborhood services to the city. To help guide some of Chung Tan's work, the city has also launched a survey on its Speak Up Fayetteville page to find out what kind of businesses residents and visitors would like to see in different parts of town.

The Bentonville School District is hosting a Choose Love Community Celebration during its Fall Harvest Festival Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to noon on the Old High Middle School campus. The featured speaker is Scarlett Lewis, mother of Jesse Lewis, killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. She is also the founder of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement.

The Arkansas Attorney General has intervened in a class-action lawsuit challenging a Pulaski District court-ordered property tax collection to reimburse bondholders who invested over $12 million dollars in a failed landfill purchased by Ozark Mountain Solid Waste District.

Zeb Tortorici, an associate professor at New York University, studies how materials thought to be obscene or profane in the past can tell us more about the past and the present. Tortorici was on the University of Arkansas campus earlier this month to present a free public lecture on that topic.

Becca Martin-Brown, the features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , previews an artists' tour in Eureka Springs and other events scheduled for the last days of October and the first few of November.