Arkansas Advocate: 5 states sending teams to assist Arkansas in battling wildfires
The state has activated the South Central Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact to support firefighting efforts
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Voters to decide if Issue 3 is the right tool
Texarkana, Texas, is booming. Texarkana, Arkansas – not as much. Supporters of Issue 3 say that’s because Texas, along with 47 other states, has tools Arkansas lacks, and they want voters to change that.
Arkansas Advocate: South Korean defense contractor will build $2.2 billion factory at Pine Bluff Arsenal
A South Korean company announced it will build its first United States facility that produces artillery ammunition at Arkansas’ Pine Bluff Arsenal, creating about 400 jobs with an average wage of $50 per hour over seven years
Dry weather continues to drive Arkansas soybean, rice harvest at record pace
Arkansas’ soybean harvest is moving at a record pace for this time of year
Arkansas Advocate: 25 years later, Asa Hutchinson reflects on Sept. 11 attacks
Hutchinson, a former two-term Republican governor, had a front-row seat to the changes the U.S. went through in the months following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people
Arkansas Advocate: Judge denies Entergy’s effort to block news outlets from publishing details about data center agreement
U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky on Wednesday denied Entergy Arkansas’ request for a temporary restraining order that would have prohibited the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Times from disclosing details about Entergy’s agreements with Altitude Capital LLC, a Google subsidiary being used to set up the data center
Arkansas Advocate: Nearly $150 million awarded in rural health program funding
Arkansas awarded $149.3 million in federal funding to 50 projects to support rural healthcare efforts statewide, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Thursday