Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
- The federal government has denied Arkansas' request for individual assistance from FEMA following March 14 storms
- A bill to fire all seven Arkansas State Library Board members and replace them with appointees of Gov. Sarah Sanders is headed to the governor's desk for a signature
- A bill restricting gender affirming health care for transgender minors is headed to the governor's desk
- A new law, Act 573, will require all public schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments in classrooms
- A bill restricting the bathroom usage of trans and nonbinary Arkansans faces a final vote in the Arkansas House of Representatives
- Arkansas submitted a waiver request to ban candy and soda from being purchased with SNAP benefits
- State lawmakers have sent a plan to combine two schools serving blind and deaf Arkansans
- Governor Sarah Sanders has shared updates to her reelection campaign funding
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