10+ hour, 55+ min ago  (181+ words) Taylor Speegle is the president and CEO of the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank. He says hunger cannot be solved by food banks alone. "That requires policy. It requires support of many different sectors. And so that's what I think about…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1344+ words) In late January, four women and a physician in Arkansas sued the state over its near-total abortion ban. Matthew Moore reports. Emily Waldorf was excited to grow her family. She and her husband had one daughter, and in 2023, they found…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (467+ words) Moore: We start this Tuesday edition of Ozarks at Large with our friend, the editor in chief of the Arkansas Advocate, Andrew DeMillo. Andrew, thank you so much for being with us today. DeMillo: Thank you for having me again....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (494+ words) A celebration of new works for the American stage concludes this weekend at TheatreSquared. Among the fresh scripts that will be read: "Bookends," an ensemble devised work from MFA students at the University of Arkansas. "Bookends" is inspired by Dickson…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (738+ words) This is Ozarks at Large. I'm Kyle Kellams. There are thousands of Arkansas veterans' stories connected to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History is collecting some of them....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (482+ words) A University of Arkansas professor who was suspended for social media posts about Israel, Gaza and Iran has been recommended for reinstatement by a group of her peers. Ozarks at Large's Daniel Caruth has more. Last week, a faculty committee…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (282+ words) Andrew DeMillo: Yeah, somewhere between one and 100 right now. Moore: Well, you and your team did excellent coverage of elections across the state. You can find that at ArkansasAdvocate.com. We're going to dig into some of the coverage you…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (835+ words) The final day of early voting is underway across Northwest Arkansas ahead of tomorrow's March 3 election. Ozarks at Large's Casey Mann visited early voting sites last week to hear from voters about what brought them out to the polls, and…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (655+ words) An organization working to put more Arkansas teachers in rural and high-poverty districts just received a $5 million grant to help fund their efforts. Ozarks at Large's Daniel Caruth has more. The nonprofit Arkansas Teacher Corps is hoping to change that....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (586+ words) Possum. Grape. 56. Toad Suck. Ever wonder how those Arkansas communities got their names? Dan Boice is the author of Naming Arkansas, a book covering how places receive their monikers. He's also created a radio series of the same name that…...