The Jonesboro City Council read an ordinance on its first reading May 19 that will issue revenue bonds to a company planning to build a factory in the city.
he Missouri Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday in a closely watched legal challenge to the state’s congressional redistricting map that splits Kansas City into three separate districts.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has joined 22 other state attorneys general in support of Louisiana’s challenge to a Biden-era Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule that allows abortion pills to be mailed to patients without an in-person doctor visit.
Missouri voters could see two competing questions on their ballots this year. One makes it harder for politicians to change voter-passed policies. Another makes it harder for voters to amend the state constitution.
A campaign turned in a record-number of signatures to the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office on Sunday to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot this year.
Missouri lawmakers gave final approval to a measure that will ask voters whether to authorize future sales tax increases to eventually eliminate the state income tax.
The Jonesboro City Council met Tuesday night for the first time in three weeks and found a temporary new home for the E-911 Center’s administrative staff.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin co-led a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general in sending a letter urging Congress to pass the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which addresses a new drug compounding the opioid crisis.
If Missouri voters get to decide whether to adopt new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump, the ballot proposal presented to them won’t say a word about gerrymandering.
Sen. Tom Cotton introduced a bill Tuesday providing grounds to revoke citizenship from any naturalized citizen who commits a felony or supports terrorists.
A Missouri budget proposal could limit access to the Parents as Teachers program, a free home-visit service that connects educators with families of children from birth to age 5.
A former Missouri House speaker was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud for misusing federal COVID-19 relief funds for his personal benefit.
A social media video of a commercial truck driver traveling the wrong way on a Missouri highway prompted state lawmakers to examine English language requirements for commercial driver’s licenses.
An Arkansas man accused of killing his teenage daughter’s alleged abuser won the Republican nomination for local sheriff while waiting to stand trial for murder in his rural county, where he ran on a message of seeing the failures of law enforcement.
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