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James L. “Skip” Rutherford, the longtime dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, will be retiring from the school next year. Rutherford, a Batesville native, made the announcement in a letter Monday to Dr. Donald W. Bobbitt, the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is teaming up with a company called Zipline to launch a drone delivery program early next year that will deliver select health and wellness products near the discounter's headquarters in Northwest Arkansas. Walmart said Monday that it plans to eventually...

Featured image: Steuart Walton, the head of the Arkansas Economic Recovery Task Force, at today's statewide COVID-19 briefing. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is reporting 385 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 11 more deaths from the illness caused by the virus.  The latest...

Featured image: Gov. Asa Hutchinson at Thursday afternoon's statewide briefing on the pandemic At Thursday’s statewide COVID-19 briefing, Gov. Asa Hutchinson criticized a lawsuit filed that morning by a group of state legislators and citizens who say the state’s emergency orders need to be lifted...

Community leaders in an Arkansas region that has struggled with racism and white supremacists over the years are endorsing an effort by the governor and lawmakers to enact a hate crimes law. The leaders of Harrison and surrounding Boone County signed resolutions Wednesday denouncing bigotry...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Crews in Bentonville are removing a Confederate monument that had been on display in the city’s downtown square for more than a century. The monument is owned by the Arkansas division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It will be...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has reported 17 more deaths from the illness caused by the coronavirus. The Department of Health on Tuesday said the new deaths from COVID-19 bring the state's total fatalities since the pandemic began to 814. The state said 273...

A body found last Saturday in a fishing area of Lake Norfork, near Pidgeon Creek in Baxter County, has been identified. Authorities say the body has been identified as Andrew Cunningham, 43, of Cotter, Ark. When Cunningham’s body was discovered, he was believed to have...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say one person has been wounded in a shooting at a shopping mall in Arkansas. North Little Rock Police said the shooting occurred Monday afternoon after a “physical disturbance" on the second floor of McCain Mall. An adult male...

Featured image: Gov. Asa Hutchinson at Friday's COVID-19 statewide briefing.   During the past 24 hours, 848 coronavirus cases in Arkansas have been reported, according to officials at Friday afternoon’s statewide COVID-19 briefing from Gov. Asa Hutchinson. That figure brings the total number to 59,583 cases. Eleven counties...

The remnants of Hurricane Laura are headed this way. White River Now's Gary Bridgman spoke Thursday morning with Dylan Cooper, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service out of Little Rock, and Cooper says, while the storm is still a dangerous one, Laura's strength in...