By ANTOINETTE GRAJEDA | Arkansas Advocate A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Arkansas law set to take effect Tuesday that would have restricted minors’ social media access. Tech industry trade group NetChoice in January filed a lawsuit challenging Act 900 of 2025, which sought to amend a 2023 law found to be unconstitutional. The earlier law and the reworked version would have required age verification to create new social media accounts. A federal judge declared the 2023 law unconstitutional and permanently blocked it last year. In Monday’s 24-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks said NetChoice was likely to succeed on its vagueness challenge…
By KEVIN HARDY | Stateline Though public scrutiny of data centers is growing, 14 states do not disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks. That’s according to a new report from Good Jobs First, a watchdog group that focuses on economic development incentives. The lack of disclosure comes as other states record mounting losses in tax revenue to data center subsidies. Three states — Georgia, Virginia and Texas — report losing $1 billion or more per year to data center incentives, according to Good Jobs First. The study found that Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri,…
DATA CENTER ON THE HORIZON? — The first slide of a presentation hints of a proposed data center that would be located about 5 miles south of Arkadelphia at the Southwest Arkansas Mega Site in Gum Springs. | arkadelphian.com photo by Joel Phelps By JOEL PHELPS | arkadelphian.com A data center could very well be coming to Clark County, Arkansas, following a vote Thursday, April 16, to sell the entire Southwest Arkansas Mega Site to an unnamed buyer. In a 90-minute special-called meeting of the Economic Development Corp. of Clark County, board members gave their unanimous approval to sell the…
From the OBU News Bureau Ouachita Baptist University will host its 16th annual Stepping Up for Ouachita luncheon, presented by Citizens Bank, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, at Chenal Country Club in Little Rock. Doors open at 10:45 a.m., with lunch service beginning at 11:30 a.m. Ticket and sponsorship information is available at obu.edu/steppingup. The event will raise money for scholarships and honor four women: Dr. Kathy (Chapman) Collins, formerly of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, being honored posthumously; Julie (Hendrix) Dodge of Conway, Arkansas; Susan (Shambarger) Goss of Bentonville, Arkansas; and Cheryl (Bass) Williams of Roland, Arkansas. What began in 2010 as a…
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission at Thursday’s meeting at the University of Arkansas at Monticello unanimously approved a regulations package incorporating more than 200 changes to the AGFC Code of Regulations
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia
This is a roundup of felony charges filed April 1 through April 15, 2026, by the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office
Henderson State University’s Wind Ensemble will present two concerts in April that are free and open to the public
Benjamin Franklin was one of 17 children
The credit was $375 when Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders took office in 2023, and lawmakers have approved multiple increases that have raised the amount to $600
How well can a nation based on being a representative democracy and a free market economy function when a majority of its citizens say their countrymen are immoral? We may find out in the coming decades.
Arkansas’ strawberry crop is not only looking good, but is also running a little early this year
Several Arkansas residents have reported receiving calls from individuals identifying themselves as “Officer Jackson” with ICAC and demanding a return call regarding an alleged investigation
The increase was likely due to a combination of factors, including excellent weather during the hunt, a few strong years of reproduction and an increase in the number of adult gobblers on the landscape
Ouachita Baptist University students have teamed up with the Arkansas Foodbank to study awareness about food resources in Clark County
Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, has been selected as a featured leader in the CEO Perspectives on Community Development Finance series
The Ben M. Elrod Center for Family & Community recently announced it has awarded a total of $6,900 through its 2025-2026 Elrod Service Enrichment Grants
Flowers are blooming, days are growing longer, and Arkansas bears are on the move
The 2026 Arkansas peach crop was likely eliminated during a mid-March weather event that saw freezing temperatures in the low 20s across the state
The event will take place at Third Street Baptist Church
One big difference between a president’s typical State of the Union address and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ State of the State address April 8 is this: What the governor proposed will actually happen.
The following incidents were gathered from reports filed April 6-12, 2026, at the Arkadelphia Police Department and Clark County Sheriff’s Office
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia
Some lawmakers are hoping their colleagues will consider their non-budgetary bills during the fiscal session that began last week
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the availability of low interest federal disaster loans to small businesses and private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in Arkansas to offset economic losses caused by drought beginning Nov. 1, 2025
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said her plans to call a special session to cut income taxes depend on lawmakers sticking to her proposed budget and limiting spending
Spikes in energy prices caused by the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran drove up inflation for Americans in March, according to the latest consumer price index figures released Friday
Goza Middle School has announced the following students to the Honor Roll for the third nine weeks of the 2025-2026 academic school year
Fletcher, who has been on staff at Delta State University since 2013, replaces Brett Shockley, who was recently hired as the head football coach at El Dorado High School
“It is the profound division in the body politic that prevents the legislative branch of the greatest country this world has ever known, that prevents that legislative body from doing its most basic function,” he said in Springdale Wednesday. “And then you have to ask, ‘How did we get here?’ …
Arkadelphia High School announced the Honor Roll for the third nine weeks of the 2025-2026 academic school year
The year was 1972. The 3-man Apollo 16 crew of astronauts were minutes away from re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere following an 11-day journey to the moon and back. Meanwhile, in the Pacific Ocean about midway between the U.S. and Australia, a 21-year-old James Phelps was wrapping up a semi-mandatory 2-year stint in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Ticonderoga aircraft carrier.
Schools throughout Arkansas are invited to engage with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Generation Conservation Summit in Hot Springs this fall
Unlike many GOP nomination fights, the race for secretary of state wasn’t a battle over how far right the candidates could go. Neither Hammer nor Norris could be viewed as a moderate or “Republican in Name Only.”
Today let’s talk about two independents who were on Arkansas’ March 3 ballot – one explicitly independent, one functionally so. The explicit one lost badly. The functional one won easily.
Forty-four students have been selected for inclusion in the 2026 edition of Who’s Who at Arkansas Tech University
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia
The community is invited to view a Special Collections exhibition and reception featuring selections from the Jane Ross Collection
The celebration will feature live music from Los MX, a variety of authentic taco trucks, and a Kids Zone — complete with a Ferris wheel, bounce houses, temporary tattoos, and a piñata zone
Clark County Judge Troy Tucker has issued a burn ban for Clark County effective Wednesday, March 25, 2026
A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Arkansas law set to take effect Tuesday that would have restricted minors’ social media access
As a devoted military wife, Jane traveled the world, living in places ranging from Germany to Thailand before settling in Bismarck, Arkadelphia and eventually Hot Springs
Esha was a 2013 graduate of Gurdon High School and continued her studies at SAU and Grand Canyon University
Student managers of Ouachita’s $6 million Ary Student Investment Fund had the opportunity to attend Quinnipiac University’s Global Asset Management Education Forum from March 19-20, 2026, in New York City
Henrietta was an avid quilter, embroider and seamstress who loved to collect fabric and patterns
