Arkansas Media

The group “Return to the Land” uses language to water down more troubling beliefs.

LRPR’s news team took home six first-place awards in the annual contest.

The decades-long recurring contract seemed to be in temporary jeopardy at a meeting Monday.

The Arkansas PBS Commission named Sajni Kumpuris as the public television network’s interim director during a special meeting Tuesday.

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, introduced Senate Bill 184 to transfer the Arkansas Educational Television Commission’s powers to the Department of Education.

The bill comes after several other legislative attempts to regulate content in state libraries and concerns over oversight at Arkansas PBS.

Senate Bill 184 would disband the State Library Board and the Arkansas Educational Television Commission, transferring their duties to the Department of Education.

Sullivan also proposes loosening the current requirement that library directors hold a master’s degree “from an accredited American Library Association program”

Hear the latest Issues That Matter panel, presented by the Central Arkansas Library System, the League of Women Voters of Pulaski County and Little Rock Public Radio.

Little Rock Public Radio took home nine awards from the annual Diamond Journalism Awards sponsored by the Arkansas Society of Professional Journalists.