A Tuesday roundup: U.S. News and World Reports gives the University of Arkansas a high ranking, UAMS cuts positions, and wildfires increased last year in Arkansas.

Thursday night from 5:00 to 7:00, a public opening reception for Putting a Face on Islam will be held at Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville. The art is inspired by interviews Fayetteville High School students conducted with Muslim residents of northwest Arkansas. The exhibit will be open to the public Thursday through Tuesday from 9: 00 a.m. to 8: 00 p.m. . We talk with four people, including two students, involved in the project.

The city of Bella Vista is dealing with the unintended consequences of being a resort town that turned into a retirement community that turned into a city that is attracting a lot of homebuyers. A study done by the Arkansas Department of Transportation found that 80 percent of Bella Vista residents commute to work, which means there are thousands of people on Highway 71 during morning and evening rush hours. The same study found that there are not any low-cost solutions to the problem, and while

Michael Tilley and the staff at Talk Business and Politics selected ten stories they thought helped define 2017 in Fort Smith. He says he thinks many of those stories will continue to play a role in the city in 2018.

This weekend, Arkansas Children's Northwest ended a two-year capital campaign. That effort raised more than $80-million for construction of the hospital in Springdale that will open in stages beginning this week.

Every winter, the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History devotes a day to local collections. Becca Martin Brown , with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says this year's event will include carvings, buttons, safety razors and more. The collections, and collectors, will be at Shiloh Museum all day Saturday. There is no admission charge.

A Monday roundup: UAMS cuts positions to get in alignment with the 2018 budget, more flu deaths occur in Arkansas, and Jerry Van Dyke dies.

Pete Hartman, operations manager at 91.3, KUAF, delivers a preview of a new special airing Sunday afternoon at 3:00 on KUAF.

Rather than tossing your live but spent Christmas tree to the curb as trash, consider donating the fir to "Greedy Goats," a popular herd of Fayetteville goats who snack on succulent pines.

Yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made an announcement regarding legal marijuana. Bobby Ampezzan spoke with Bud Cummins, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas under President George W. Bush in 2001, about the announcement.