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Winner Of “2024 Arkansas Youth Community Preparedness Award” Announced!
Arkansas Tech University emergency management and homeland security program has officially been awarded the 2024 Arkansas Youth Community Preparedness Award!. Their efforts in disaster preparedness and community resilience in the Arkansas River Valley have paid off. You can learn more about this and other ATU success stories at www.arkansastechnews.com.
AR Governor celebrates new rice research center opening
HARRISBURG, Ark. (KAIT) - Big agriculture news landed the governor in Region 8 Friday morning. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders visited Harrisburg to celebrate the grand opening of The Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center on Friday, Aug. 30. The facility sits on 600 acres of farmland and features a...
Arkansas AG rejects proposed education constitutional amendment for 2026 ballot
This story was updated at 11:45 a.m. on Aug. 30, 2024 to include additional comments from the attorney general’s office. Arkansas’ attorney general on Thursday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would require identical standards for public and private schools that receive state funding. In his six-page opinion, Attorney General Tim Griffin said he could […]
Arkansas officials plan immediate bed expansions while they await new prison
In an attempt to relieve pressure from crowded county jails while the completion of a new 3,000-bed prison facility remains in the distant future, the Arkansas Department of Corrections and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders have turned their focus to immediate expansions. “We have roughly [a] 16,000-prison-bed capacity and we have north of 17,000 people that […]
Tagging dinosaurs: Alligator gar en route to Arkansas River
LONOKE– August is usually associated with the final trek of summer; the last stretch before school begins and the heat finally breaks. For the AGFC Fisheries Division, it’s time to tag alligator gar. For the second year, excess fry from the Private John Allen National Fish Hatchery in...
Arkansas United Methodist Conference, FUMCJ settle lawsuit
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - On Wednesday, Aug. 28, the First United Methodist Church of Jonesboro (FUMCJ) resolved the lawsuit filed by First Methodist Church (FMC) in December 2022 against the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church. According to a news release set on Friday, Aug. 30, as a result...
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