Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Thursday, September 17, 2026.
- Fire crews continue to fight a blaze that has burned more than 2,800 acres in southern Arkansas near Camden
- State lawmakers have given initial approval for a new influx of cash for Arkansas’
school voucher program
- Arkansas lawmakers have advanced a request for more funding for the state’s
Medicaid program
- Gov. Sarah Sanders says the state is working on a solution for Arkansans waiting to receive home healthcare services through Medicaid
- Philanthropists and Walmart heirs Olivia and Tom Walton announced last week they are giving $100 million toward a national effort to make giving birth safer in the US
- New details are being released in the arrest of a woman in the more than three-
decade-old murder case of her infant
- An attorney for the city of Little Rock is challenging an ethics law that is preventing her from running for a judgeship
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