Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
- An Arkansas nonprofit has received approval from the state attorney general to begin collecting signatures for a proposal to reinforce the state's direct democracy process
- U.S. Representatives of Arkansas, Steve Womack and French Hill, respond to controversy surrounding the release of files relating to child sex offender Jeffery Epstein
- Historically Black university Philander Smith College is launching a nursing degree program
- U.S. Sen. John Boozman has introduced a bill to increase the number of new trained doctors in Arkansas
- A judge denied a request from Attorney General Tim Griffin to reverse an order blocking Arkansas Act 689 of 2023 from being enforced
- Dozens of Northwest Arkansas residents protested the Trump administration's immigration policies outside the El Salvador consulate in Springdale last week
- The first woman to serve as secretary of the Arkansas Senate, Ann Cornwell, is retiring
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