Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Friday, February 20, 2026.
- The Arkansas Secretary of State’s office is ramping up its efforts to regulate canvassing, deploying a 'petition fraud investigator' to sites where canvassers are collecting signatures for proposed constitutional amendments
- Thursday night, a coalition formed in support of Arkansas PBS hosted its first community forum
- Two more Arkansans have died from flu-related illness over the past week
- Startup drone company Swarm Aero is opening an 80,000 square foot facility at Fayetteville’s Drake Field airport in northwest Arkansas
- The victim of a 2006 Northeast Arkansas homicide has been identified
- A North Little Rock man is accused of using a homemade explosive device to attempt to steal money from an ATM
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