Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, I-540 undergoes a name change. And, we tinker around the Amazeum office in Bentonville.
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On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience.
The designation for a stretch of highway in Arkansas is changing to Interstate 49.
Arkansas Lottery Officials update the Legislative Oversight Committee on decreasing lottery revenue. A group advocates at the state capitol for fairer tax laws, and the Ben Geren Aquatics Center moves forward as the first construction bids will soon be awarded.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Northwest Arkansas Rape Crisis Center will soon be able to expand their efforts to survivors of sexual assault, and a traveling exhibit at the University of Arkansas this week wants college students to engage in conversations about hunger.
The traveling exhibit called Hunger U is on the University of Arkansas campus this week.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, an Arkansas judge overturns the states's ban on same-sex marriage, so what's next?
Onyx Coffee Lab will host the Friday the 13th Brew-tal Latte Art Competition Friday night at 7.
Springdale street crews battle ice on streets that refreezes overnight, while the National Weather Service predicts warmer weather for the rest of the week. Nabholz Construction reorganizes its corporate leadership, and the Razorback volleyball team ends its season in the first round of NCAA tournament play.
Electric distribution wires and poles are vulnerable to failure from severe ice and wind storms, as witnessed here in Arkansas on many occasions. So is it time to go underground? Jacqueline Froelich talks with Frank Burggraf who delivers the case for “undergrounding.”
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas discusses an effort to expand broadband in Arkansas public schools and more in his weekly business news recap.
Becca gives us some entertainment options for Tuesday to help cure cabin fever.