County Clerks May meeting...
The county clerks will meet at the Graduate Hotel in Washington County.
The county clerks will meet at the Graduate Hotel in Washington County.
The sheriffs will meeting at the Wyndham Hotel and City of Fort Smith Convention Center.
The circuit clerks will meet at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute.
The County Judges will meet at the Wyndham Hotel in North Little Rock.
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.
This November, voters in Nevada County will get to choose whether or not they’d like to see the Nevada County Sheriff removed as Tax Collector and the office combined with the Nevada County Treasurer’s Office.
Faulkner County officials announced that construction on a long-awaited new animal shelter is now underway at 597 US-65 in Greenbrier. The project was made possible with support from the county's volunteer tax dollars and is projected to open in approximately 180 days.
The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit that argued voting machines do not comply with state law. Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative Inc. and its CEO Conrad Reynolds filed the lawsuit against Secretary of State John Thurston, the State Board of Election Commissioners and Election Systems and Software LLC in December 2022. A Pulaski County circuit judge dismissed AVII and Reynolds’ amended complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief last year.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders touted her record after her first 15 months in office in her State of the State address on Wednesday, to open the first day of the 2024 fiscal session. The Republican governor outlined her accomplishments in her first year in office and called for lawmakers to pass budgets that fund police and education.
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