Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Thursday, April 16, 2026.
- An amendment to a Senate Bill introduced during the Joint Budget Committee on Wednesday strikes both the position and the salary for former Department of Corrections Secretary Joe Profiri, now a senior advisor in the governor's office
- An effort to restrict property sales in planned, religious communities failed in the Arkansas Legislature on Wednesday
- A proposed amendment would bar the state from funding a center for Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
- State officials have postponed a decision on a new “Monument to the Unborn” at the Arkansas State Capitol
- Little Rock city officials have approved a new youth curfew
- Members of the U-S Senate voted to confirm John Thomas Shepherd as a judge for the U-S District Court of Arkansas’ Western District on Tuesday
- Aaron Reddin, the longtime leader of two homeless services nonprofits in Little Rock, is stepping down
- The head of Little Rock’s Old State House Museum has been fired
- Bill Teeter has entered the race to fill a vacancy in the Arkansas House of Representatives
- A new battery-making facility could be in the works at the Port of Little Rock
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