Arkansas Legislature

A motion to subpoena former Corrections Secretary Joe Profiri to testify failed on a voice vote

Sen. Gary Stubblefield, a Branch Republican who served a dozen years in the Arkansas Senate, died Tuesday at the age of 74.

The groups seemed to view a recent injunction blocking Arkansas' law requiring the Ten Commandments in state-run buildings as a minor setback.

The 2021 law was the first of its kind in the U.S. to ban minors from receiving gender-affirming care, like puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

Prison opponents will be allowed to speak, but no investigation is forthcoming, co-chair says

Attorneys for 10 Arkansas death row inmates say Arkansas' law allowing executions via nitrogen gas is unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks says Act 573 likely violates the First Amendment.

A law to disband the board went into effect Sunday.

A smaller prison in western or NW Arkansas and completion of a planned addition in Calico Rock would be better, Lee Watson says

A federal judge said he will decide soon whether to block implementation of a new state law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools, following a nearly nine-hour hearing Friday.