Book sale, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on July 11. Fill a bag for $5 with lots of paperbacks, hardbacks, children’s and craft ...

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has won the award for General Excellence among the state's larger daily newspapers in the ...

Earle has the distinction of having one of the youngest Black mayors in the country. He's 21-year-old Jaylen Smith, who was ...

Earle has the distinction of having one of the youngest Black mayors in the country. He's 21-year-old Jaylen Smith, who was ...

Robert Palmer (1945–1997), born on June 19, 1945, in Little Rock, Arkansas, Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. was an American writer, musicologist, and musician. He is known for his work "Deep Blues ...

Sharp County, AR – The Sharp County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Chief Deputy Kevin “Bart” Simpson, has released the weekly incarceration and community service report for the week of April ...

The Arkansas Library Association strongly opposes Senate Bill 536, which proposes the elimination of the Arkansas State Library (ASL) and the redistribution of its collections and resources.

The right-wing war on knowledge continues as an Arkansas state senator filed a bill Thursday to abolish the State Library as well as the library board. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro), along with ...

The Arkansas State Library Board’s role in distributing grant funds to Arkansas’ local libraries will be transferred to the Department of Education. Senate Bill 184 passed out of the House ...

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, is the sponsor of SB 184 and one of the Legislature’s most vocal critics of Arkansas PBS. He told the Senate that both the Arkansas Educational Television Commission ...

The fight over who controls the content in Arkansas libraries continues. A group of lawmakers are back with a bill that would abolish the state library board.

This article was first published by the Arkansas Advocate and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. An Arkansas state senator filed legislation Monday seeking to abolish the state ...