Homeless students topic of North Little Rock forum
Designated school employees can approve medical treatments for students who are homeless and unaccompanied, educators learned during a presentation at a confer…
Designated school employees can approve medical treatments for students who are homeless and unaccompanied, educators learned during a presentation at a confer…
It's hot enough to melt a tube of lip balm, hot enough to transform a pack of gum into a sticky mess, hot enough to make you sick and hot enough to kill you.
Fresh Pulaski County data on youth arrests reveal two things most stakeholders agree on: The county needs a shelter as an alternative to jailing children who g…
Pulaski County is in danger of losing support from a juvenile-justice expert if it doesn't take substantive steps toward changes in the next couple of months, …
International students living in Northwest Arkansas were paying twice as much in deposits at the same apartment complex as their counterparts from the United S…
Two images stacked atop each other in a Jericho Way brochure depict Noel Mooney at the end of a stint living on the streets of Little Rock and the start of his…
A youth lockup in southeast Arkansas closed its doors Thursday, making it the second such state facility to shutter since the start of the year.
In January, Charnisha Cleary and her six children were homeless, bouncing between shelters and relatives' houses, seeking their former stability.
The board of commissioners for the Little Rock housing authority announced Thursday that it will begin negotiations with a finalist to fill its executive direc…
The first director of the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission will leave the agency at the end of June, and the former leader for the Arkansas Department of Labor…
The former head of the state Department of Labor will take over as director of the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission on July 1, according to a news release sent…
After working her whole life and raising four children by herself, Odessa McKinley hoped she would be able to afford a house by the time she retired.
Homeless people living in camps along the engorged Arkansas River were warned of the impending flood, but many lost their possessions, service providers said T…
Many Arkansas housing authority officials hadn't developed policies on what to do about medical marijuana when the first ounces were sold earlier this month.
Members of Little Rock's housing authority board again took a hard look at the agency's finances Thursday and delayed filling the agency's top position.
The Little Rock housing authority failed to follow the rules in shifting nine properties from public housing to a voucher program through private partnerships,…
Protesters chanted outside a Little Rock hotel Friday against proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development while the agency's s…
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson told participants at an annual fair housing conference in Little Rock Friday that "no one should ha…
Criticisms of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development policies and a budget proposal were frequent topics during an annual conference in Little Rock o…
An Arkansas nonprofit received a federal grant for more than $280,000 to battle housing discrimination, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development an…
The Little Rock housing authority board appointed a new interim director Monday as it nears the end of a search for a leader for the agency.
In the midst of its search for a new executive director, the Little Rock housing authority was left leaderless Friday after its top executive resigned.
In the days before he died, Odell Gilkey was in crisis, but no one was sure of the best way to help him, homelessness service providers said Wednesday.
The Little Rock housing authority board met for about seven hours in private and about 40 seconds in public Tuesday while interviewing a job candidate for the …
Of the three finalists for the Little Rock housing authority's top position, one was fired by the city in 2018 and another has been terminated from at least tw…
Tamara Milby turned to the Arkansas Legislature on Wednesday to guarantee that her teenage daughter gets the health care she needs to prevent migraines, pain i…
Ben Carson, secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Development, is scheduled to visit Little Rock next month to speak at a housing conference.
U.S. Secretary of the Housing and Urban Development Department Dr. Ben Carson is scheduled to visit Little Rock next month to speak at a conference.
Members of the Little Rock housing authority board in a closed session Thursday chose three finalists for the agency's next leader.
A bill that seeks to eliminate roadblocks to treating opioid addiction sailed through an Arkansas House committee Wednesday despite opposition from the state's…
A bill on landlord-tenant law that the sponsor says would make it easier for victims of domestic violence to escape unsafe situations received House committee …
The Head Start program in southeast Arkansas is no longer under local control.
The Head Start program in southeast Arkansas is no longer under local control.
A heavily revised bill that would set minimum standards for rental housing statewide will get another vote after coming up one short in an Arkansas House commi…
The sponsor of a bill that would keep secret documents regarding where the state gets its execution drugs said Friday that he is going forward with the measure…
A bill that aims to ensure that rental housing is safe and habitable is under further review after a political group expressed opposition to the measure during…
North Little Rock housing officials hope that using private contractors to renovate public housing -- set to begin this year -- will enable repairs to eight pr…
In a rare split vote, the Little Rock housing authority board decided Friday to expand its contract with a Wisconsin contractor that has been doing renovations…
A year's worth of small talk outside the Pulaski County Courthouse, some Internet sleuthing, an unlikely friendship and a 620-mile road trip led a man living o…
For the first time in over a decade, Little Rock officials will designate $272,622 of the city's federal housing dollars to help more than 50 buyers with low i…
When Heather Meadors first went to Our House, a Little Rock homeless shelter, she was fresh out of prison and unsure how to move forward, but now she has a job…
More than 50 people -- landlords, tenants, legal experts, city officials, advocates and state legislators -- rallied at the state Capitol on Thursday to show t…
An effort to reduce street homelessness by 25 percent in downtown and northeast Little Rock has expanded to include areas from the River Market District to the…
A state lawmaker is planning a major rework to a bill that she wrote intending to protect the identities of confidential informants, but that free-press advoca…
An Arkansas lawmaker filed a bill Thursday that would require landlords to keep rental properties safe for occupancy. Similar bills have failed at least six ti…
Selling houses to millennials, who are shouldered with college debt that is triple the amount their parents faced, is one of the major challenges real estate a…
Twenty-two applicants submitted resumes vying to become the executive director of the Little Rock housing authority, but none came from internal candidates.
Kevin Teer leaned forward on his bike, talking to Victor Moya on Thursday. Moya took notes about how long Teer had been homeless, his living conditions and his…
A company that manages government-subsidized housing in Newport on Monday rescinded its call for residents to pay their full rents for the duration of the fede…