Eddie Joe Williams

An affiliate of Catalyst Healthcare Real Estate in Pensacola, Florida, bought the 49,333-SF medical office building in west Little Rock. read more >

Republican voters were selecting nominees for two state Senate seats Tuesday, along with a representative from the Marshall area. read more >

An Arkansas state senator says he's resigning from office after he was appointed by the White House to a board focused on energy issues in the South. read more >

Taking a breather from making the most permanent kind of state law is a spectacular idea. And it suggests the kind of institutional maturity that we had begun to despair of. Deliberative bodies should be very deliberate. read more >

Arkansas legislative leaders say they don't expect to refer any proposed amendments to the state's constitution to voters next year. read more >

Arkansas senators have cleared a path for a vote on a bill aimed at keeping the lieutenant governor's office vacant until the November general election. read more >

The interim director of the Arkansas Community Correction Department told legislators Thursday that parole officers can go to her if there's a problem getting a parole violator off the streets, a move she made after a man who skipped parole violation hearings was charged with murder. read more >

Even though legislation involving tort reform failed to make it out of the General Assembly last month, attorneys are pushing forward with the idea. Sen. Eddie Joe Williams, R-Cabot, who introduced the measure, says business groups supported the legislation and that tort reform is needed because surrounding states have it. read more >

A package of campaign finance and ethics rules is among proposed constitutional amendments that Arkansas lawmakers will consider referring to voters during this year's legislative session. read more >

Arkansas lawmakers are weighing competing ballot measures to address rulings that overturned parts of a 2003 tort reform law, including a proposal to give the Legislature the authority to write the rules and practices for the state's courts. read more >

Arkansas legislative leaders on Monday vowed to work across party lines after an election where Republicans won control of the House and Senate for the first time in 138 years, opening a session that will be dominated by questions about the state's Medicaid program. read more >