AAC Annual Conference | Association of Arkansas Counties

Zekelman Industries will invest up to $120 million to expand the manufacturing capabilities and product offerings of its subsidiary, Atlas Tube, in Mississippi County. The project will bring Zekelman’s total number of employees in the area to more than 300. It will also partner with Arkansas Northeastern College on a new workforce training initiative.

There's been a lot of confusion over whether electronic signatures on voter registrations are allowed under Arkansas law. On Tuesday, the State Board of Election Commissioners temporarily disallowed electronic signatures on voter registration application forms except those submitted through the department of motor vehicles, drawing fierce criticism from a nonprofit group called Get Loud Arkansas, led by former state senator Joyce Elliott.

It took broadcast journalist Major Garrett 28 years to recognize the work that goes into elections away from the campaigning and debating. Despite covering eight presidential elections starting in 1992, “until 2020, I took the part that I just lionized you for legitimately for granted; I just assumed it happened,” he said while speaking at “Counties Ready for 2024: A Summit on Election Administration” on Feb. 12.

Former Arkansas governor and U.S. Sen. David Pryor, a Democrat who was one of the state’s most beloved political figures and remained active in public service in the state long after he left office, has died. He was 89.

Technology startup Xtremis, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas, has plans to open a first-of-its-kind innovation campus for the rapid advancement of electromagnetic spectrum technologies. It’s expected to position Northwest Arkansas as a center of research and economic development in the emerging field of electromagnetic spectrum technology.

The Arkansas House on Wednesday authorized the introduction of two bills proposing stricter regulations on cryptocurrency mining while six other proposals failed to gain enough votes.

Arkansas lawmakers debated April 10 whether to give the state Department of Corrections extra money during the current fiscal year to be distributed to county jails as reimbursement for housing state prisoners.

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Forestry Division is awarding 87 wildland fire suppression kits throughout the state to rural fire departments through its Rural Fire Protection Program

Mississippi County, Arkansas, has reportedly received $2 million in federal funding to begin a clean-up effort at the former Eaker Air Force Base in Blytheville. According to a release sent Thursday, Congress approved the funding in March as a part of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.