Beginning Friday, the streets of downtown Little Rock will be filled with devout fans of pop culture, many of them elaborately dressed like cartoon characters and superheroes, others sporting clever T-shirts declaring their fandom for…
Members of the Little Rock Board of Directors voted to confirm four people to the recently created Little Rock Food Commission during a meeting Tuesday evening.
Mayfield then returned to Homer, Louisiana to pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church. He founded the Homer Normal, Industrial and Bible Training School, and the educational institution became the center of education for Black residents in…
A man was arrested last week after a high-speed pursuit in Little Rock that ended when an Arkansas State Police trooper rammed the car, state police said Wednesday.
On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.
Early kindergarten-through-12th-grade student enrollment for the new 2024-25 school year in the Little Rock School District is 19,585, which is 20 students fewer than the final-day-of-school count of 19,605 last spring.
Angelina and her husband, Plácido, went to work cutting chicken parts for Tyson Foods in Springdale in 2001. Over time their jobs took a horrific toll. Angelina's gnarled hands thrashed about in her sleep, as if she were still standing on…
Parents with children in a handful of Little Rock-area schools are banding together to delay equipping their elementary- and middle-school children with smartphones -- and they are asking other parents to join them.
Improvements have been made at multiple community centers in North Little Rock as part of the city's half-cent sales tax, according to a news release from the city.
Two senior officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently visited Little Rock to meet with the leadership of the city's housing authority.
The Sue Cowan Williams Library in Little Rock will reopen on Thursday after being closed for more than a week to repair damage caused by fires set by someone who hid in the building while it was closed, the director of the Central Arkansas…
Come for the beer cans, stay for the friends. That seemed to be the unofficial slogan of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America convention -- or "canvention" -- on Saturday at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
Each summer, I teach a class for LifeQuest of Arkansas in which we talk about the state's past and its future. During a question-and-answer period, a lady asked about "dangerous" downtown Little Rock, the neighborhood where I work. Another…
Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church in Little Rock is holding a service Friday for married couples who were denied a traditional church wedding, giving them the opportunity to have their unions acknowledged and affirmed in a sacred…
The man who police say fatally shot another man Thursday on Main Street in Little Rock has been released without being charged after police questioned him amid the ongoing investigation, police said Friday.