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This Veterans Day, Arkansas native and U.S. Army veteran Porter Briggs will release “South, Towards Home,” a memoir tracing his journey through war, loss and reinvention to a life rooted in love and the Southern soil that shaped him. The …

It has been a decade since Rep. French Hill traded a successful corporate career in the Natural State for the jungles of Washington, D.C., politics, and the ninth-generation Arkansan has made the time count. Representing the Second District since 2015, …

Two of the most highly publicized first initiatives of President Donald Trump’s second term in office are beginning to be directly felt inside the borders of the Natural State as activities by ICE and DOGE in Arkansas have been reported …

The National Register of Historic Places recently added a significant portion of downtown Searcy to its list. “The National Register of Historic Places is a program of the National Park Service that is administered in Arkansas by the Arkansas Historic …

Tourism is now a $9.9 billion industry in Arkansas, an economic impact study commissioned by the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism found.  According to the study, which was conducted by Tourism Economics with input from DK Shifflet, the …

For years after the former Eaker Air Force Base in Blytheville closed in 1992, the abandoned facility was seen as a symbol for the area’s loss and economic woes. Buildings that were homes and offices to nearly 6,000 servicemen had …

If Walls Could Talk: The Flag and Banner/Taborian Hall Building   Standing impressively at the corner of 9th and State streets for more than a century, the Taborian Hall building is a historic reminder of the time when Little Rock …

When Hernando de Soto became the first European explorer to reach what we now call the Natural State in 1541, he was disappointed not to find any great civilizations like the Aztecs or Incas, ripe with gold and glory to …

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Buffalo River’s official designation as America’s first National River, the Ozark Society is releasing a feature length documentary film called, First River: How Arkansas Saved a National Treasure. The film, produced by the …