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In remote and rural areas across the U.S., public radio stations can be a lone source of local news when natural disasters take out power, internet and cell towers. read more >

The program will help kids build skills like functional literacy and critical thinking, and show them eventual career options in age-appropriate ways. read more >

Arkansas educational TV chief Courtney Pledger, building her national profile even while facing a professional standoff back home, has been elected to the board of directors of PBS. read more >

The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and its new executive director, Chris Jones, Ph.D., was profiled Wednesday by PBS' "NewsHour" show. read more >

Emmy-Award-winning TV host Darley Newman will dedicate an episode of her new "Travels with Darley" show to Little Rock, tourism leaders announced Tuesday. It will air this summer on PBS. read more >

On Wednesday, the TV series “Nova” will premiere its one-hour documentary special “Petra: Lost City of Stone” on PBS. University of Arkansas geoscience professor Tom Paradise, who has worked on the site in southern Jordan for 25 years, played a large role — on screen and off — in the production. read more >

Searcy High School's broadcast journalism program may see some of its stories on PBS NewsHour, thanks to a new program called Student Reporting Labs. read more >

The life story of northwest Arkansas real estate developer and former University of Arkansas football star Jim Lindsey not only sounds like something from a movie, it is actually becoming a movie. read more >