An annual development report for 2018 suggests Bentonville is still growing in both population and building permits. We speak with a city planner to get some context on the trend.

Eric Carpenter has been both a prosecutor and defender within the U.S. military judicial system. Now an associate professor of law at Florida International University, he was recently in Fayetteville to speak at the University of Arkansas School of Law. While he was in town, he stopped by to help explain the military judicial system.

Waitress , on stage at Walton Arts Center , is set in a small town and addresses small-town life's cozy comforts as well as its fishbowl challenges. This week, we asked two of the lead actors in the production of Waitress about how growing up in small towns helped inform their work on the touring production.

In May, the University of Arkansas will host the NCAA Division 1 Men's and Women's Golf Championships at Blessings Golf Club in Johnson. In today's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report, we hear from Johnny Tyson, the club's owner, about bringing the prestigious event to the golf course, which opened 15 years ago.

Today Governor Asa Hutchinson is signing into law a bill that will allow the Arkansas State Board of Nursing to grant licenses to participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program. Representative Megan Godfrey, a Democrat from Springdale, sponsored House Bill 1552 .

After residents of Fayetteville's Washington-Willow Historic District expressed interest in an ordinance that would regulate what can be done to the homes in the neighborhood, city planners got to work. The department is now seeking public input on recently unveiled proposed design guidelines that could eventually become an ordinance, creating the city's first historic preservation district.

The touring production of Waitress is onstage this week at Walton Arts Center. Two of the actors in the production, Steven Good and Christine Dwyer, stoped by our studio to talk about the musical and how it examines life as it is.

Anna Julia Cooper was born a slave in Raleigh, North Carolina. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in mathematics, she taught at a prominent prep school for African Americans in Washington, D.C., and she wrote "A Voice From the South," which provided critical analysis of black women's issues in the early 20th Century. This is her story.

Three festivals, plus rockabilly, progressive sludge, and more are ahead on this weekend's music calendar. Thursday, Apr. 11 Reverend Horton Heat at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $22 adv, $25 day of, 8:30 p.m. Sarah Loethen at Mojo's Pints and Pies (Fayetteville) - 7 p.m. Ashtyn Barbaree at 21st Amendment (Fayetteville) - 8 p.m. Sons of Turner at Harry's Downtown (Fort Smith) - 8 p.m. Dominic B. Roy at The Nines (Bentonville) - 9 p.m. Northwest Arkansas Heritage Brass Ensemble at

Ronny Cox performed in northwest Arkansas last weekend. He is an actor, songwriter and storyteller, and one of the stories he told during his performance at Fayetteville Public Library was of when he met James Dickey, whose writing inspired the movie Deliverance , the first movie Cox acted in.