County Judge Barry Hyde is pressing his plan to take over responsibility for juvenile probation services in Pulaski County from circuit judges. A legal fight seems possible.

Judge Wendell Griffen says a pending ethics complaint against him should be dismissed because action hasn't been taken in time set out by the rules.

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40/29 TV captures video of runaway bridges hitting dam on rain-swollen Arkansas River in Oklahoma.

A remarkably dishonest, contemptuous performance today by Arkansas native daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders, filling her role as apologist and defender for Donald Trump.

The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees this morning approved campus budgets for next year, including deficit spending proposed by UA Little Rock.

The Arkansas Supreme Court today dismissed as moot a request by Arkansas True Grass to require the attorney general to certify the form of their proposal to legalize marijuana in Arkansas.

Question: On my first trip to a medical marijuana dispensary, an employee there encouraged me to laminate my medical marijuana card because the dispensary had already seen cards with the identifying numbers rubbed off, rendering them useless. But when I called a Health Department hotline, the person I spoke with told me I couldn't laminate. What gives?

Mayor Pete once spoke in Little Rock. I was there. Sorry. I didn't take notes.

KATV rooted through expenditures of state officeholders and John Thurston, recently upgraded from land commissioner to secretary of state, led the pack in expenses.

Land in the Ozarks at that time was relatively inexpensive, but even the most well-intended homesteaders could run into snags born of inexperience. Take, for example, Cindy Davidson and a group from Little Rock, who inadvertently purchased a parcel of land with no road access whatsoever.

Kari Faux teams up with director Dylan McGale for the release of her new music video, "Night Time." One of five tracks from Faux's latest EP "Cry 4 Help," released in March, the "Night Time" video is a lush, moody look into the end of a relationship and a loss of privacy.

It’s the time of year for seersucker suits, sipping whiskey and watching the river flow by. You can be that laid-back and party, too, at the third annual Arkansas Times Pig and Swig, coming to the River Market on Friday, June 14.

Gillian Armstrong's debut feature "My Brilliant Career" (1979) is as rural and wild as the Australian outback in which it's set, and reads a little like a response to Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 book "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead." But, as Michelle Obama replied so aptly, though, "That shit doesn't work all the time."

Mondanaro brought the libretto to absolute life. Her lines were smooth and spinning and radiant, and so nimble that she was able to lend that lovely element of surprise Puccini’s phrases can have, in the right hands — the kind where you’re not sure if a line of dialogue is going to blossom suddenly and swell upward, or demure modestly in a downward flutter and disappear.

Also, food art, genius.com, Brenda's chicharrons, "Fleabag" season 2 and more.

the legacy of my mother was what she left spiritually. That’s how I am driven today to continue my bizarre little career on its 40th anniversary howl. It’s time to say things loud and clear. The artist can no longer remain silent under these conditions. It is no longer good enough to be an entertainer; you have to say something and you have to take a stance. That goes for everybody.

Pepe Gaka and young Hot Springs artists are putting the finishing touches on the mural "Black Broadway" on the wall of the Habitat for Humanity Restore.

Greg Thompson, owner of Greg Thompson Fine Art at 429 Main St., announced today he will close the gallery but will continue to sell art as Greg Thompson Fine Art Inc. and Fine Art Investments LLC. 

With help from The John and Robyn Horn Foundation, Opera in the Rock stages a fully orchestrated "Madama Butterfly" at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre this weekend.

It’s the time of year for seersucker suits, sipping whiskey and watching the river flow by. You can be that laid-back and party, too, at the third annual Arkansas Times Pig and Swig, coming to the River Market on Friday, June 14.

Prince Williams hopes his bar and seafood shack will earn a reputation for solid food and keep people coming back. The duck gumbo will make us return.

If you are not currently wedging some deep-fried cauliflower into your work week, you might not be doing it right. 

The 2019 Summer Field Trip of the Southern Foodways Alliance is hopping over to Bentonville in June.

Two-dimensional Byzantine iconography surrounds the Anunciation visitor on all sides — intentionally presented in a flat matte style, "not meant to be Renaissance art," Father Nicholas said — but now, the eye is drawn to the radiant glass at the altar, Christ in a gold robe and halo, holding a chalice in one hand and the Eucharist symbol on the other. Over 200 shades of glass and eight months of work went into the icon, Father Nicholas said. 

Stone's Throw Brewing opens its Stifft Station Taproom on May 7.

The state beer brewers alliance has helped Arkansas craft beer grow faster than other states.

Come savor the season with salsa moves and swill at the third annual Arkansas Times Margarita Festival, presented by Milagro Tequila, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, May 2, on the field of War Memorial Stadium.

Thanks to handful of pop-ups, food trucks and brick and mortars, it's getting a little easier to eat vegan in Little Rock without trekking westward for a Whole Foods trip.

Central Arkansas has a surprising pocket of authentic Italian culture stretching all the way back to the early 20th century, and it's on display for three spring days — Friday, April 26 through Sunday, April 28 — in downtown Little Rock.