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1 week ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) has come under scrutiny this week for purchasing stock in companies in industries he oversees as chair of the House Natural Resources Committee. Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) grilled Westerman in a committee meeting on Tuesday dedicated to fleshing out a portion of the budget reconciliation package being pushed by House Republicans.
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1 week ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
With a bit of grant funding from the Arkansas Department of Human Services, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit is providing free naloxone, fentanyl test strips, overdose response training and other resources for Arkansans. Naloxone is a medication that rapidly reverses the effects of opioid overdose. Commonly sold as a nasal spray under the brand name NARCAN, it can be purchased without a prescription but costs $40-$50 a dose.
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1 week ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
Donald Trump’s cost cutters are setting their sights on a federal program that subsidizes flights from several small Arkansas communities to larger airports. The federally funded Essential Air Service subsidy helps cover costs for rural communities to receive air service, even when providing that service may not be profitable for airlines.
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1 week ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
Little Rock Chief of Staff Kendra Pruitt has quit to “pursue new leadership opportunities,” Mayor Frank Scott Jr. announced Monday. Scott has tapped Joycelin Randle, a senior manager at Southern Bancorp, to replace Pruitt. Randle, 43, began her new role Monday and plans to relocate from North Little Rock to Little Rock, according to a press release. “Joycelin Randle is a proven leader who understands operations and the power of partnerships,” Scott said in the release.
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1 week ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
Across Arkansas, hundreds of volunteers with AmeriCorps have had funding for their positions terminated amidst a whirlwind of federal spending cuts spearheaded by the Trump administration, including some here in Little Rock. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported last week that 270 AmeriCorps volunteers in Arkansas have been affected so far, with more than 120 of those working at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
An Arkansas legislator’s son has turned himself in to the Arkansas State Police on felony charges of sexual indecency with a child. Special agents with the Arkansas State Police arrested Jeffery Ladyman, 42, of Jonesboro, on Thursday according to a press release. Ladyman, the son of Rep. Jack Ladyman (R-Jonesboro), is being held in the Craighead County Detention Center.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
The city of Little Rock and the Little Rock School District are asking for donations to pay off $174,121.89 of school lunch debt. The debt comes from 13 schools in the district that don’t qualify to provide free lunch to all students, LRSD Child Nutrition Director Stephanie Walker-Hynes said during a press conference Wednesday. “Today we’re coming together to address an urgent and deeply human issue: school meal debt in our city,” Walker-Hynes said.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain |Rhett Brinkley |Stephanie Smittle
With April now in the rearview mirror, we’re looking back at some of the best restaurant dishes the Eat Arkansas team came across over the last month. Send us your favorite bites and food selfies from the last four weeks as we plan our May dining schedules. Stir-fried ramen at Seoul Cup-BapOne of the highlights of my lunches this month was the stir-fried ramen from Seoul Cup-Bap, one of the more recent additions to downtown Little Rock’s Ottenheimer Hall food court.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
In 2026, Arkansans will vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow cities and counties to give incentives to private developers by setting up taxpayer-backed “economic development districts” — a new type of local entity that could issue bonds, make grants, build infrastructure and give tax breaks within their boundaries. The amendment is one of three chosen by the Arkansas Legislature this session to go before voters in next year’s general election.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Milo Strain
The city of Little Rock has lost funding for AmeriCorps staff thanks to federal spending cuts from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration, according to Mayor Frank Scott Jr. “We have lost our AmeriCorps funding for our AmeriCorps fellow and so that position will be not paid for and cut, and you’ll see that in the next month’s financials,” Scott said during a Little Rock Board of Directors meeting Tuesday.
