Hunter Field / Arkansas Advocate
Deputy EditorHunter Field is a veteran Arkansas journalist whose reporting on the state has carried him from military air strips in northwest Arkansas to soybean fields in the Arkansas delta. He spent the better part of the last decade investigating and reporting on Arkansas government and politics.
For three years, he covered education policy, medical marijuana and the Arkansas General Assembly as part of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Capitol Bureau. Most recently, he was the Democrat-Gazette's projects editor, leading the newspaper's investigative team.
Hunter got his start in journalism covering sports for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. A Memphis native, he enjoys smoking barbecue, kayaking and fishing in his free time.
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More new Arkansans moved to the Natural State last year from Texas and California than any other states, according to state driver’s license data. -
Arkansas’ prison board will investigate when and how changes were made to a legal contract without the knowledge of state procurement officials. -
A judge is allowing the group challenging Arkansas’ new ballot petition law to amend its complaint before he decides whether to dismiss the lawsuit. -
Arkansas executive branch employees would receive a 3% pay raise, and the minimum wage for those workers would be raised to $15 an hour under a plan announced Wednesday. -
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday proposed a 1.76% increase to next year’s state budget. -
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will travel to Japan and South Korea alongside state economic development officials to try to recruit additional international investment. -
The ballot initiative would make it easier to create ballot initiatives. -
Arkansas’ attorney general on Tuesday filed notices that he plans to appeal rulings that favored the state prison board over the state in recent legal disputes. -
The $5.5 million agreement estimates roughly $500 million in potential savings. -
The new version would also prohibit state lawmakers from changing constitutional amendments ratified at the ballot.
