Little Rock board to take up revised scooter rules
A rewritten Little Rock ordinance on dockless electric scooters omits restrictions on use that had prompted Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr.'s veto after city directors approved a version of the ordi...
January 19, 2021
Racial work remains, note leaders in Little Rock
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. and Police Chief Keith Humphrey addressed residents at events recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with speeches that noted the halting progress of the mo...
January 19, 2021
Little Rock Notebook
Chamber names
business official
Jeremiah Anderson will be the new director of business attraction for the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, the economic development group announced in a Frid...
January 17, 2021
LR board to weigh chamber contract
Little Rock city officials will consider renewing a $250,000 annual contract with the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce for economic development consulting services, years after government paym...
January 17, 2021
Clinics vaccinated 411 Little Rock police, fire personnel, mayor's office says
Clinics arranged through the city have resulted in covid-19 vaccines being administered to approximately 240 individuals in the Little Rock Police Department and 171 in the Little Rock Fire Department...
January 16, 2021
Lawyer in chief's suit files to drop some defendants
LITTLE ROCK -- An attorney representing Police Chief Keith Humphrey in a wide-ranging civil rights lawsuit filed in federal court this fall moved to dismiss the chief's claims against several defendan...
January 15, 2021
2 mayors rebuff idea to rescind funding of police
The mayors of Pine Bluff and Blytheville on Wednesday said they do not support defunding the police during a panel on policing and race held as part of the 2021 winter conference of the Arkansas Munic...
January 14, 2021
Little Rock Marathon delayed to fall; organizers cite virus safety
The 2021 Little Rock Marathon, originally scheduled for March, has been postponed to November amid the recent surge of coronavirus cases in Arkansas and across the nation, according to a statement fro...
January 13, 2021
Hospital totals in state linger around highs
The number of Arkansans battling covid-19 in medical facilities as well as the number of patients on ventilators because of the disease both remained at or near record highs on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the...
January 11, 2021
Record 237 Arkansans with covid-19 placed on ventilators
The number of Arkansas covid-19 patients on a ventilator increased to 237 on Sunday, breaking the record of 224 set just last week, according to numbers from the Arkansas Department of Health.
Arkans...
January 10, 2021
Little Rock, police '21 contract includes meet-and-confer clause
The new 2021 employee agreement between Little Rock police officers and the city of Little Rock says two representatives holding dual membership in the city's largest police union as well as a city-re...
January 10, 2021
Vote commission sidelines Pulaski County official
The Pulaski County Election Commission on Tuesday voted to decertify the county's top election staffer, with the aim of preventing him from participating in election-related work, in a 2-1 vote along ...
January 7, 2021
Little Rock board picks Hines as vice mayor
The Little Rock Board of Directors on Tuesday selected City Director Lance Hines of Ward 5 to serve as vice mayor.
Hines succeeds City Director B.J. Wyrick of Ward 7 in the two-year role. As vice may...
January 6, 2021
2 fire, police veterans in Little Rock get vaccinations
The initial covid-19 vaccinations for first responders in Little Rock were administered Tuesday morning to two longtime employees of the city's police and fire departments.
Battalion Chief Naim Salaa...
January 6, 2021
State adds to record tally of virus patients
For the second day in a row, the number of people hospitalized in Arkansas with covid-19 hit a record as the state's tally of patients increased by 18 on Sunday, for a total of 1,234, according to the...
January 4, 2021