Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
- An attempt to defund a controversial member of the governor's team failed in a subcommittee
- Arkansas has confirmed its first outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu in a commercial flock this year
- A mid-March freeze may have eliminated Arkansas’s 2026 peach crop
- Banks that lend money to Arkansas farmers are being more cautious as a nationwide agriculture crisis drags on
- Arkansas’ public television network has received a $3 million donation toward keeping PBS programs in the state
- The U-S Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the family of an Arkansas teen who was shot and killed by police
- - An Arkansas lawmaker says he’ll withdraw a proposal to ban the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from offering an online law degree program
- A subsidiary of American Airlines is expanding its maintenance base in central Arkansas
- Researchers have launched a new dashboard to help Arkansas communities understand and make informed decisions about health
- Former Fayetteville banker William Hayden McIlroy Jr. has died at age 86
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