Heart health may start with a healthy mouth. New research indicates that oral health and heart health may be connected, so protecting your teeth and gums could protect your heart as well. This is the first installment in our year-long collaborative Arkansas Public Media oral health series available for viewing here.

To assess the region's art and culture ecosystem, the Walton Family Foundation commissioned a study from SMU DataArts. According to the report, Northwest Arkansas’ arts community has offerings for nearly every audience and with the growth of internationally-recognized museums and other cultural amenities, the region is becoming more competitive with other American arts capitals.

Some Fort Smith residents are not happy with higher water bills of late. Michael Tilley, from our content partner Talk Business and Politics , tells us more on that and on the large gift given this week to the U.S. Marshals Museum.

One of the issues facing Fayetteville voters in the current bond election would allocate nearly $37 million toward construction of a new police headquarters campus. Another would direct nearly $16 million to the construction of new fire stations.

While there is no organized opposition group against extending Fayetteville's sales tax in the current bond election, there are some residents who are against the proposal. We hear from Stephen Coger, the founder of the Arkansas Justice Collective, about why he is against the referendum.

Becca Martin Brown, features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, gives us weekend options for theater, quilting, a capella singing, and more.

Fayetteville-based band Lost John released their newest album Let it Be Strange March 29. Prior to that release, the band stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to talk about the new album and to perform a few songs from the release.

A new seminar is designed to help children who have family members affected by dementia. The free program is April 6 at the UAMS Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education in Springdale. Participants can register here .

Josh Dawsey covers the White House and President Trump for the Washington Post. This week, he delivered the annual Roy Reed Lecture for the School of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Arkansas. Before that lecture, he stopped by our studio to talk with us about his job.

Arkansas Master Naturalists are building accommodations for nesting birds at eight sites around northwest Arkansas. We meet two nestbox experts at one of the habitats on Beaver Lake in Benton County.