Somebody in the governor's office apparently instructed state employees to misleadingly alter a three-month-old invoice, with specific instructions to not date the change. Who?

100,000 and counting. That's how many Arkansans signed on to push back against our state's near-total abortion ban.

Arkansas school districts weren't cowed by the state's bungled last-minute attack on a new course focused on African American history and experiences.

Attorney Tom Mars said his client can prove that someone in Sanders' office altered and withheld documents that were requested through the Arkansas FOIA.

The state education secretary noted a particular concern over lessons on "intersections of identity" and "resistance and resilience."

Any other governor of Arkansas would have been on a plane and headed home at first light Sunday morning. Sanders chose to stay in North Carolina half the day, promoting herself, while Arkansans were...

From her childhood home at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion all the way to her current home at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, Sarah Huckabee Sanders pulled herself up by her own bootstraps, and she...

A whopping 26 staff members in the attorney general's office were paid in excess of their line-item appropriation from the legislature during fiscal year 2022, while Leslie Rutledge was attorney...

The governor offered no explanation for refusing Vaughn, a mentally disabled man who has been in prison for 30 years for a crime he did not commit.

Recently retired Army Colonel Marcus Jones announced his candidacy today as opponent French Hill (R-Little Rock) is reportedly set to cast a vote for Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for Speaker of the House.

Campbell's move to the Arkansas Times will give his important reporting an even larger platform. We're proud to have him on our team!

A federal judge in Fayetteville stopped Arkansas’s new book censorship law in its tracks Saturday. Dan Sullivan, sponsor of the legislation, vowed the state would appeal.

Will any of us shed a tear for a guy who makes more than three times the median household income in his home state? 

Members of the Little Rock Nine met with high school seniors from across the city Monday to answer students' questions about public education, integration and real history. The Nine did not hold back.

The termination is effective today, the board said. Board chair Benny Magness said he would give a courtesy phone call to Profiri to notify him of the board's decision.

Rex Nelson went all in on the Sanders administration.

The Saline County judge fired the county's library director today after months of book censorship controversy.

Legislators introduced possible legislation to allow guns on school grounds, bus stops, and demonstrations, among other places.

“This near-total abortion ban is a very bad and a very dangerous thing. It puts a lot of people at risk. And if you agree with me, you can go sign up to get on the ballot in November to repeal the...

Arkansans for Students and Educators, a ballot question committee with connections to Gov. Sanders, was formed in April to oppose the Educational Rights Amendment. It's attracted some big donors.

Gov. Sanders sold Arkansas LEARNS as a lifeline for poor families stuck in failing public schools. But only 5% of students receiving vouchers attended public school last year, according to a state...

"Students will NOT be permitted to attend CCA who professes any sort of sexually immoral lifestyle or an openly sinful lifestyle including ... promiscuity, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc," a...

After Sanders shared social media posts about her family's high-dollar Super Bowl trip, TPM set out to calculate how much it cost and who foot the bill. As if!

The lawsuit says the genesis of the LEARNS voucher program lies in efforts to resist federal desegregation orders in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

After a similar age-verification law went into effect in Utah earlier this year, Pornhub blocked all users with IP addresses from the state.

For a private school family with two kids and making roughly 300K annually, LEARNS vouchers would effectively cancel out their state income tax bill. LEARNS can be thought of as a giant tax cut for...

For months, rumors circulated that First Gentleman Bryan Sanders was working with the Walton-connected Runway Group to change the federal status of the Buffalo National River. Those rumors are...

Last night in Jasper, Ozarkers finally got to have their say about land use decisions made without their input — though the folks who really needed to hear the message couldn’t be bothered to come. 

State Sen. Jimmy Hickey alleged Monday that the governor’s office offered outgoing state Rep. Danny Watson a lucrative seat on the state parole board if he secured a replacement friendly to the...

Also on the chopping block in the governor's war on words: "birth giver," "womxn" and "laboring person."

School board elections are nonpartisan in Arkansas, but the Conway races became so contentious and aligned with political ideology that Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders joined the fray and endorsed the...

John Thurston's letter strongly implied abortion advocates had failed to turn in a list of paid canvassers on July 5. In fact, they did.

"The courts have made clear that the governor and the Legislature are not above the law," attorney Ali Noland said. "They have to follow the constitution, too."

Thanks to a recent law change, Sanders is free to dash off on taxpayer-funded campaign trips like this one to try out anti-immigration talking points in hopes of winning a VP spot on Trump's presid...

The evergreen question is: What insane thing did our state government do today that people outside the Natural State aren't going to be able to wrap their heads around?

Members of the political left and the political right find a rare point of agreement on protecting Arkansas's Freedom of Information Act.

Gov. Sarah Sanders ripped President Biden's mandate for electric vehicles about two months after trumpeting lithium production in south Arkansas. Lithium is a key component in batteries for electric...

Someone tried to trick supporters of the Arkansas Abortion Amendment out of collecting signatures Thursday.

Emerson College Polling found just 40% of Arkansans approve of Sanders.

She's the head of the Arkansas chapter of Moms Demand Action.

Lingering questions about what's possibly the world's most expensive lectern distract from Sanders' other announcements like spinach in teeth. None of us can pay attention to anything else until the...

The governor, legislature and Department of Education are elected, appointed and hired to take on the tough jobs. With Arkansas LEARNS and school vouchers, they have chosen the easy way out.

Jen Standerfer, an attorney and leader in the campaign to protect Arkansas's Freedom of Information Act, was arrested and handcuffed in front of a room full of judges and attorneys today.

An effort to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot to restore abortion rights in Arkansas was rejected by Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston over an alleged failure to submit...

Governor Sanders knows how to create controversy. Today, she nominated former state Sen. Jason Rapert to the Arkansas State LIbrary Board.

Or don't watch at all.

Employers would have to pay overtime to an estimated 4.3 million additional Americans under a federal rule change, fattening paychecks by $1.5 billion. So of course, Arkansas Republicans are fighting...

Markings on white phosphorus munitions photographed Oct. 11 near the Israel-Gaza border indicate they were manufactured at Arkansas’s Pine Bluff Arsenal.

An attorney and leader in a campaign to protect access to public information was handcuffed and escorted out of the Arkansas Bar Association's annual convention in Hot Springs Friday in a bizarre...

Patty Hector, who was fired from her job as Saline County's head librarian, will be honored with a $10,000 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity.

Who would Jesus dox?

A group of plaintiffs challenging Arkansas's state legislative district lines now may be looking at a stronger case thanks to yesterday's surprise ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on a Voting...

Former state Sen. Jason Rapert today failed to win support for his first proposal before the state Library Board: to defund any library that sues the state or its taxpayers.

Draper is a licensed clinical social worker in Fayetteville who plans to focus her campaign on health care, public education, reproductive rights and climate issues.

Has anyone seen it? Show us the lectern!

The amendment would enshrine the state's Freedom of Information Act in the state constitution. The group also expects to file an initiated act in the coming weeks.

Cotton has the golden resumé of a rising star, but his stuffy manner and apparent discomfort with humans has led that star to dim over time.

On the Arkansas Department of Education's descent into pure ideological propaganda.

Get Loud's lawsuit, which seeks relief under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, draws a direct link to the disenfranchisement of Black voters in the segregated South.

“The LEARNS Act’s Section 16 is nothing more than a brazen, political attempt to silence speech and expression with which Gov. Sanders and Secretary Oliva simply disagree,” attorney Mike Laux said.

Sanders' approval rating stands at 48% (or 51% of very likely voters), the lowest since 2003. Governors Mike Beebe and Asa Hutchinson never saw their approval ratings as measured by the annual poll...

A new vendor to process Educational Freedom Accounts – aka school vouchers – will be selected within the next few weeks, an Arkansas Department of Education official announced. 

New Arkansans tend to be more progressive than the old ones. Are there enough of them to matter, election-wise? Check out these dorky and informative graphs to find out.

Crunching the numbers behind Arkansas Republicans' scheme to squeeze the budget and dole out tax cuts for the rich.

Sarah Sanders doesn't want these initiatives on the November ballot. She's willing to ignore the constitution to try to make that happen.

The vendor will play a critical role in the administration of Arkansas’s new voucher program and stands to earn some $2.4 million in service fees next school year alone.

A Republican senator is asking for audits into the governor's lectern purchase and records of expenses retroactively pulled from public view by a new FOIA exemption.

ClassWallet — the Florida company with a lucrative contract to manage the banking side of Arkansas LEARNS school vouchers — employs a lobbyist who also represents a political action committee for...

"If people were really concerned about 'the children,' they would be going after the internet, YouTube, TikTok, movies," Hector said. "The sexualization of children is prevalent in those sources —...

With Sanders' Fox News photo op complete, the 80-member Guard contingent is returning to Arkansas.

"The US government has historically made it an extreme priority to withdraw US citizens from dangerous areas that are subject to bombings and ground assaults," a lawyer for the family said. "Their...

The group behind the proposal, Arkansans for Limited Government, must now collect over 90,000 signatures before July 5 to qualify for the November ballot. 

State Attorney General Tim Griffin signed off Friday afternoon of the popular name and ballot title for the Educational Rights Amendment of 2024. 

“I would rather be fired for supporting the First Amendment than sued for violating it,” Saline County Library Director Patty Hector said Monday.

Arkansas's shamefully high maternal mortality rate is not enough to convince Arkansas officials to extend Medicaid for new moms, even though the federal government would foot the lion's share of the...

The first bell of the school year had already rung when the Arkansas Department of Education released its official statement, dashing any hopes that a class focused on African American history and...

New court filings suggest John Thurston is applying rules in contradictory ways — preemptively rejecting the abortion petition, while allowing similar paperwork issues to slide for other petitions.

A flood of more than 1,000 Little Rock Central students, many with homemade protest signs, swarmed out of the school's front doors at 1 p.m. Friday to protest the omnibus Arkansas LEARNS bill, which...

Arkansas delegates will throw their votes to the VP.

The plaintiffs say the state's 2020 congressional map violates the constitutional rights of Black plaintiffs by splitting the Black vote in Pulaski County among three separate districts.