Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Tuesday, June 18, 2024.
- The Arkansas Legislature has advanced a budget bill for the state's Game and Fish Commission.
- New tax cut proposals have cleared their first legislative hurdles ahead of a Tuesday vote
- A train leaking nitric oxide caused evacuations in parts of White County on Monday
- The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute has launched a new civic engagement project, called Civic Arkansas
- U.S. Senator John Boozman has released Senate Republican's version of the farm bill proposal
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