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Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport is leaving Highfill

The Northwest Arkansas National Airport’s board voted Tuesday to detach the airport from the City of Highfill.“The only option was detachment,” XNA Public Affairs Manager Olivia Moore said. “That was for the betterment of the region and for XNA.”The airport board and the city have been negotiating a possible detachment for months. Gov. Sarah Huckabee […]

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2 Arkansas school districts deny state claims that they broke a law on teaching race and sexuality

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Two Arkansas school districts deny some of the state’s claims that they violated Arkansas’ ban on teaching certain things about race and sexuality. The Pulaski County and Lakeside school districts tell the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that some of the incidents listed on a document circulated to reporters by the state Department […]

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Arkansas Board of Education returns Pine Bluff School District to local control

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — The Pine Bluff School District has been returned to local control five years after the state took the district over and declared it in fiscal distress. The Arkansas Board of Education on Friday unanimously voted to return the district to local control after school district officials made the case for […]

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs Bill That Bans Vaccine Mandates In Arkansas

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) has signed a bill that bans state and local governments from mandating COVID-19 vaccines for workers after a similar ban expired last month. The legislation signed Thursday is aimed at defending citizens’ “individual liberty,” Sanders said at a press conference prior to its signing. The legislation also prohibits COVID-19 […]

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Tyson Foods and Gatik to deploy autonomous trucks in Northwest Arkansas | Regional News

Tyson Foods, Inc., and Gatik AI, Inc. have announced a multi-year collaboration to deploy autonomous refrigerated box trucks to bolster Tyson routes in Northwest Arkansas. Operating 18 hours a day, trucks will deliver Tyson products, among others, to the company’s distribution and storage facilities in the Rogers and Springdale areas. The deployment will introduce Gatik […]

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Arkansas’ New Anti-Transparency Law Should Piss You Off

Under the guise of “security concerns,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders made a brash attempt this week to gut her state’s public records law. And then an unexpectedly beautiful thing happened. Members of the public on the political left and right, in the media and in labor and from all walks of life, united to assert […]

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Arkansas governor seeks exemption on travel and security records, backs off other changes

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Republicans in the Legislature on Tuesday backed off a widespread plan to restrict the public’s access to records about Sanders’ administration, but they said they will still seek limits on what can be released about the GOP governor’s travel and security. Republican lawmakers filed […]

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Effort to restrict public’s access to Arkansas records stumbles at start of legislative session

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ proposal to restrict the public’s access to records about her administration, travel and security stumbled at the outset of a special legislative session that convened Monday, with lawmakers trying to rework the legislation in the face of growing criticism that it erodes the state’s open […]

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Arkansas Attorney General requests full-court review of SAFE Act appeal

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) – Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is asking for a review of the state’s appeal of a court ruling blocking the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act. Under the SAFE Act, gender-affirming care for minors would be banned in Arkansas. According to our content partner KARK, Griffin filed a request with the […]

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Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024 | #elections | #alabama

FILE – A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled in the summer of 2023 that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the […]