Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
- The Pea Ridge Police Department is discontinuing its participation in a controversial surveillance program
- An organization based in Northwest Arkansas aims to provide a secular, queer-friendly path to addiction recovery
- The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is putting together a list of minor programs to cut ahead of the system’s Board of Trustees’ meeting this September
- The Department of Human Services estimates the work requirement for Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion program will decrease enrollment and raise the average cost of those who remain on the program
- Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has appointed Gary Stark to serve on the Arkansas State Board of Education
- Arkansas’ attorney general, along with 41 other state attorneys general, has reached a settlement with a genetic-testing company over a breach of its data
- Little Rock officials say demolition of the pedestrian bridge over West Markham Street will begin Tuesday
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