Shelters will be open in North Little Rock, Cabot and Jacksonville tonight, but Little Rock's city-run shelter will be closed with cold temperatures in the forecast.| Arkansas Times
Hours for Little Rock’s emergency shelter and warming centers have been extended through Saturday morning, and the city announced the Dunbar Community Center’s emergency shelter would shift to operating 24 hours a day.| Arkansas Times
The Van, a local charity serving homeless people, has paused its plans to open an emergency shelter in Pulaski County and is looking for a new building to house it.| Arkansas Times
The Van, a charity that assists homeless in the Little Rock area, raised more than $100,000 in less than a week for its new emergency shelter and thrift store.| Arkansas Times
Prohibiting people and organizations at an event for unsheltered persons from handing out tents — literally, shelter! — misses the mark.| Arkansas Times
The People’s Bookstore, a new pop-up bookselling venture focused on authors of color, is set to have its first event at Beautywood Books in North Little Rock on Saturday from 12-5 p.m.| Arkansas Times
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In February, the state Court of Appeals overturned part of a state law allowing lawsuits based on decades-old claims of childhood abuse. Now the Arkansas Supreme Court will review the case.| Arkansas Times
Arkansas arrives in this curious, allegedly overdue contest as a heavy favorite (-23.5 at publication). But the Hogs cannot underestimate the Red Wolves because this five-game September schedule includes road tilts at Ole Miss and Memphis before the showdown with Notre Dame in Fayetteville.| Arkansas Times
The Arkansas State Police have confirmed the identity of human remains found in east Arkansas in 1977.| Arkansas Times
Grab Arkansas Game and Fish’s new book for outdoor enthusiasts!| Arkansas Times
Fayetteville-based poet Carolyn Guinzio has been awarded the 2025 Porter Fund Literary Prize, a $5,000 honor presented annually to an Arkansas-connected author “with a substantial and impressive body of work that merits enhanced recognition.”| Arkansas Times
On Wednesday afternoon, a black bear attacked a man in Franklin County. The victim, a 72-year-old named Vernon Patton, is in stable condition at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.| Arkansas Times
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If you ask me, the real MVPs of the season spend most of their time in the stands. Behold, the Marshall Bobcat Band!| Arkansas Times
The power struggle between the governor and the Board of Corrections heads back to circuit court after the justices unanimously declined to rehear the case.| Arkansas Times
A backlog of dicamba-use violations has put state regulators in the uncomfortable position where they may forgive millions in unpaid and unenforced fines on farmers who violated state law.| Arkansas Times
Call it a venue, call it a gallery or call it, as its founders do, a space “designed to feel like a modern speakeasy meets museum pop-up.” The space at 112 W. Sixth St. is home to a new venture called The Window on Sixth, which aims to offer a mixed-medium roster of art, music, photography and performance.| Arkansas Times
Arkansas’ prison administration agency will enter into a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act at its Malvern facility, Department of Corrections staff told members of the Board of Corrections on Tuesday.| Arkansas Times
Jesse Gibson and Robert Tellez are both running for the seat that will be vacated by Circuit Judge Cathi Compton’s retirement next year.| Arkansas Times
The Van, a Little Rock-based organization that helps homeless people, is getting ready to buy a new building in Pulaski County that will serve as an emergency shelter during winter months.| Arkansas Times
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Whether or not you want to believe that summer is over, a new Oxford American is here to signal the arrival of fall. Volume 130 — billed as the Arts & Culture issue, a distinction that could probably apply to any edition of the Conway-based quarterly — hit newsstands yesterday.| Arkansas Times
North Little Rock Democrat Angela Person West aims to take over for Rep. Tracy Steele, who’s term-limited.| Arkansas Times
A reconstituted State Library Board held its first meeting this week after a Republican-sponsored state law required the removal and replacement of the previous members.| Arkansas Times
Take a stroll through downtown Nashville and you’ll be clobbered by the sheer number of honky-tonk bars linked to country stars. Last week, Arkansas native singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde joined the many famous twangsters who’ve set up shop on Lower Broadway.| Arkansas Times
There are a few flyers for a business called Allan’s Microwaved Catfish & Boiled Okra Southern Delicatessen on the windows of the former Big Whiskey's space in the River Market.| Arkansas Times
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Held at The Nest Little Rock from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, the gathering will include treats from queer-owned/friendly restaurants; a resource fair populated by local organizations; a panel of doctors, public health professionals and "sexual health and pleasure conversationalists"; and more.| Arkansas Times
With August now in the rearview mirror, the Eat Arkansas team is fondly looking back at some of the best restaurant dishes we came across last month, while setting our sights on fall weather, soup recipes and chili in a bowl.| Arkansas Times
In 1958, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the commencement speech at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, known then as AM&N. The politics of King’s visit to a Black college in a Southern state in the dying days of Jim Crow fueled a funding battle that some believe set the campus back.| Arkansas Times
It was a bog standard August Monday morning — brighter than it was hot, but with an unmistakable promise of soul-melting heat to come — and The Observer was up and out the door before 7 a.m. It was the first day at Little Rock Central High School, and, as I’ve done every non-COVID year since 2012, I was taking my daughter to school.| Arkansas Times
Eric Orwoll certainly isn't the first white separatist to set up shop in Arkansas, but he's currently the buzziest.| Arkansas Times
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A nonprofit entity affiliated with the University of Arkansas System has been in discussions about a potential purchase of the for-profit University of Phoenix, a spokesman for the UA System confirmed today.| Arkansas Times
