The suit against Express Scripts Inc. and Optum Inc. says the companies did not take “sufficient action” to curb excessive opioid prescriptions.

The Republican governor proposed cutting the state’s top income tax rate from 4.4% to 3.9% and the top corporate rate from 4.8% to 4.3%, effective Jan. 1.

The Biden administration has promised that the military would commission reactors, which could help drive down costs for others.

The vote creates uncertainty about whether the 636-employee agency that oversees the state’s hunting, fishing and conversation programs will be able to operate when the fiscal year begins July 1.

The bills were among the few non-budget issues on the agenda for a legislative session lawmakers expect to wrap up Thursday.

During a nearly three-hour hearing before the committee that requested the audit, the first-term Republican governor’s top aides faced skepticism from even some GOP lawmakers over the purchase of the lectern.

The session could include efforts to tweak or outright repeal a law dealing with cryptocurrency mining operations.

Most of the increase in spending would go toward the governor’s school voucher program.

Arkansas Citizens for Transparency asked the state Supreme Court in a 14-page filing to order Attorney General Tim Griffin to either approve the language of their proposal or substitute it with more suitable language.

Republican Attorney General Tim Griffin certified the proposal, which would prohibit the state from banning abortion within the first 18 weeks of pregnancy.

Hutchinson’s exit came a day after he finished sixth in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses, well behind Donald Trump and other top rivals.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge on Friday blocked a new law that took away the Board of Corrections’ authority over the state corrections secretary and other top […]

The all-Republican executive committee of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee also voted to audit the Republican governor’s travel and security expenditures.

A legislative panel is expected to vote this week on a lawmaker’s request for an audit of the lectern’s purchase.

The inmates said they were never told ivermectin was among the medications they had been given to treat their COVID-19 infections, and instead were told they were being given vitamins, antibiotics or steroids.

Questions about the lectern, its cost, how it was purchased and even whether it existed has dominated political talk in Arkansas in recent weeks.