Schools Sue, Mayor Defies Arkansas Mask Mandate Ban
Arkansas’ ban on mask mandates faced new legal challenges and defiance from the mayor of the state capital as Republican lawmakers rejected efforts to roll back the prohibition. read more >
Arkansas’ ban on mask mandates faced new legal challenges and defiance from the mayor of the state capital as Republican lawmakers rejected efforts to roll back the prohibition. read more >
The number of students and staff at a Marion school district who have quarantined because of COVID-19 grew to more than 700 as lawmakers debated whether to allow schools to mandate masks. read more >
Legislators meeting in a special session file two bills dealing with Act 1002, which prohibits state and local governments from imposing mask mandates. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson calls members of the 93rd General Assembly into a special session to begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, aiming to give public school boards the power to decide whether to require masks read more >
Arkansas reported 42 new COVID-19 deaths Monday and its biggest one-day spike in coronavirus hospitalizations since the pandemic began. read more >
A judge orders Arkansas to resume its participation in supplemental federal unemployment assistance that the state cut off to thousands of workers. read more >
Arkansas reports 1,703 new coronavirus cases as the number of people in the state hospitalized because of the virus continued to climb. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he is considering calling lawmakers back to the Capitol to revisit a state law banning mask mandates by state and local governments. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he plans to meet with House and Senate leaders about growing calls to allow schools to require face masks as the state reported 23 more deaths from COVID-19. read more >
As U.S. regulators weigh a final stamp of approval for COVID-19 vaccines, governors in states hard hit by the pandemic — including Arkansas — hope the move will help persuade holdouts to get the shot. read more >
A group of Democratic lawmakers in Arkansas, which has the nation's highest COVID-19 rate, urged the governor and Republicans who control the Legislature to lift the state's ban on schools and government entities requiring people to wear masks. read more >
A federal judge blocks an Arkansas law banning nearly all abortions in the state while she hears a challenge to its constitutionality. read more >
Studies have shown the COVID-19 vaccines to be safe and effective. But misinformation continues to sow doubts about them, especially in conservative and rural areas. read more >
The Walton Family Foundation and the Excellerate Foundation commit $3 million to start a nonprofit to retrain workers for jobs in high-demand industries, starting with health care. read more >
Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders' campaign said she has raised another $4.2 million for her bid for Arkansas governor. read more >
Transportation management and logistics company Transplace of Dallas marks the grand opening of its new 150,000-SF operations center in Rogers. read more >
Arkansas' coronavirus cases increased by more than 1,000 for the second day in a row as the state saw another spike in its hospitalizations and deaths. read more >
Arkansas reports 1,000 coronavirus cases, its biggest one-day spike in nearly five months. read more >
Arkansas can implement a range of strategies in six key areas to guide itself out of the economic harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report commissioned by the governor's Economic Recovery Task Force. read more >
Arkansas on Monday reported 1,246 new coronavirus cases and 23 more hospitalizations from the past three days as Gov. Asa Hutchinson warned that the state could face a “tough week" in the virus' growth. read more >
