JACKSONVILLE, Ark. – Jacksonville police are investigating a shooting that left one person injured in a parking lot behind Wendy’s. According to the Jacksonville Police Department, officers were called to the restaurant located on Main Street just before 8 a.m. Wednesday. #BREAKING Jacksonville police are investigating a shooting in the parking lot behind the Wendy’s…

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Key developments for Little Rock and Pulaski County homelessness projects won approval Tuesday at the Little Rock Board of Directors meeting. First, directors gave the OK for about 3 acres of land off of Roosevelt Road in Little Rock for the city’s micro-home project. The land will be purchased from the owner,  Dale McGinnis, for…

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Rhett (pictured here) forgot to post the open line earlier. Sorry about that. What did we miss? The post Awkwardly late open line (Rhett’s fault) appeared first on Arkansas Times.   Read More   ​ 

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Don’t miss your chance to vote in the dopest awards in Arkansas!  Today is the last day to vote in the Arkansas Times cannabis awards. Let us know who you think the best budtender is, who makes the best edibles and everything else in between.  The awards are broken into four categories: dispensaries, cultivators, cannabis-related…

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Officials at the engineering firm Garver wrote the U.S. Department of Transportation grant application after a local nonprofit group, Fifty for the Future, committed $125,000.  Read More   ​ 

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the city of Little Rock a $2 million planning grant to begin design work for a proposed deck park over Interstate 30. The grant is part of the reconnecting Communities Pilot Program, which helps reconnect communities that were separated by construction of the interstate system.…

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Jacksonville will end a three-and-a-half-year stretch without a hospital when Unity Health’s newest facility starts seeing patients as expected next month.  Read More   ​ 

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Joseph Schwartz, the New York state owner of the failed Arkansas nursing home chain, Skyline Health Care, who is facing tax and Medicaid fraud charges in Arkansas, has been ordered to pay the family of a Little Rock woman who died in one of his facilities $15.7 million for neglect and wrongful death.  Read More   ​ 

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In March 2022, Jacksonville officers responded to Johnson Park about a drive-by shooting. Upon arrival, they discovered one man unresponsive with a gunshot wound.   Read More   ​ 

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The University of Central Arkansas is working to raise the playing field for incoming freshmen by creating a five-year program through grant funding.   Read More   ​ 

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