A slight percentage increase in the number of employed compared with the number of jobless helped push Arkansas’ February unemployment rate to 3.2%.

Name, image and likeness proposal unfair, doesn’t go far enough, advocates say.

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Arkansas LEARNS will give all teachers earning above $50,000 a raise of $2,000, but districts will have to adjust their current salary schedules.

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Senate Bill 443 would create a new state “Office of Employment First” and an advisory committee overseeing efforts to boost employment opportunities for disabled Arkansans.

One bill seeks to ban medication abortions while the other seeks to add an exemption to the state’s abortion ban.

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SB81 would allow local governments to oversee book challenges. Many librarians call it censorship, while lawmakers say it could give local control back to taxpayers.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that matches their gender identity.