Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
- State regulators are set to consider whether or not to disbar the son of former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson
- Applications are once again open for the state’s school voucher system, the Educational Freedom Accounts program
- A study finds the recent winter storms cost Arkansas’ poultry industry as much as $200 million
- A new report from the Ingeborg Initiatives and the Women's Foundation of Arkansas found 69% of mothers surveyed said they couldn’t afford to both keep working and pay for childcare
- In a meeting of the State Plant Board’s Pesticide Committee, a state forestry commission representative warned that pesticide drift is harming tree stands that border fields
- Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders endorsed State Sen. Kim Hammer’s bid for Secretary of State
- University of Arkansas system trustees voted Monday to authorize $3.4 million dollars in additional funding for athletics at its flagship campus in Fayetteville
- University of Arkansas system trustees approved two new master’s degree programs in a Monday meeting: a Master of Library Science and Information Studies and a Master of Science in Outdoor Recreation and Sport Tourism
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