Metroplan sounds North Belt retreat
Metroplan officials kicked plans for a North Belt Freeway farther down the road Wednesday in deciding to study a payment method for the project near term but d…
Stories by Riley Johnson
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LR, NLR mayors snub proposal for 90-year-old Broadway Bridge
The mayors of Little Rock and North Little Rock turned down an Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department proposal for the cities to assume ownership of th…
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Bridge renewal gets state rebuff
Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department officials slapped down the idea of rehabilitating the aging Broadway Bridge on Wednesday, saying the option of f…
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100-year-old church digs up past
Church leaders revealed traces of Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church’s past Sunday after removing a 1950 time capsule set into the church’s cornerstone.
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State has doubts on Arkadelphia bypass plan
On the city’s east side, the 52-year-old Ouachita River Bridge on Arkansas 51 approaches its retirement with each crossing car, pickup or logging truck.
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Water runs low in Newton County
A mile east of the junction of Arkansas 16 and 21, a Newton County family loaded six pails of water into their car Friday morning.
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Heavy holiday travel expected
More Arkansans are expected to hit the road and take to the skies during the midweek Fourth of July holiday, much like millions of Americans.
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LR forum considers human trafficking
Leaders from several Arkansas anti-human trafficking groups on Wednesday took another step toward changing what they say is a weak state law.
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The fallen are finally remembered
For 150 years, the tomb of a young Confederate soldier from Little Rock lay at the foot of a tree in Mount Holly Cemetery, unmarked and unknown to cemetery vis…
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Severe drought covering 83.5% of parched state
More than 83 percent of Arkansas is now in a severe drought, and with no rain in sight, forecasters say conditions stand to worsen rapidly.
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Free flights taking WWII veterans to see memorial
This October, almost 180 World War II veterans from Arkansas will board two US Airways Airbus planes bound for Washington, D.C., from Little Rock.
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Team kick starts new garden, greenhouse
Eight AmeriCorps members shoved a green tarp holding hundreds of pounds of rabbit manure off a trailer and onto the hard, grassy earth near Cloverdale Magnet M…
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Families struggle to find closure
Brandi Tyler hoped the candlelight vigil she led outside 1203 College St. on May 16 would help jump-start a November 2011 homicide investigation. She left disa…
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Foot chase, shootout involving bondsmen draw peer’s scrutiny
On May 21, two bail bondsmen and a Louisiana fugitive traded gunfire on Bowman Road during a fugitive apprehension, according to a police report.
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Vendors’ sales down, but officials call Riverfest a success
Raydean Wood’s “Rodeo Style Mud Bugs and More” Riverfest 2012 stand saw fewer crawfish and alligatoron-a-stick eaters this year.
