Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Wednesday, October 7, 2026. -A ...

A week after the failed execution, Pike is awake but is said to be angry and confused. Her lawyers said Wednesday's hearing ...

As checks from President Trump for health costs hit millions of mailboxes, a poll shows Americans don't trust Republicans on ...

The World Health Organization says it wants more information on what caused the death of an employee at a Russian plague research lab. Russia says the woman died of pneumonia of unknown origin.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Natalize Baszile about her new novel Friends and Family. Can an interracial friendship stand up to the pressure of U.S. life in 2026?

Opal Lee, considered the grandmother of Juneteenth, turned 100 years old. She attended a ceremony at the site of the planned Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth featuring former first lady Michelle Obama.

The author Tomi Adeyemi has written fantasy all her life. Now, she has a new book out titled The Siren, which takes place in the real world.

The Lahore High Court is a near-perfect specimen of British South Asian colonial architecture and its main square is a ...

It's hard enough being a small-scale farmer. Then the Iran war drove up fertilizer prices. So farmers are using a traditional ...

Rep. Bruce Westerman faces a challenge from Democrat James "Rus" Russell in the race to represent Arkansas' 4th Congressional ...

In the meantime, here's what we do know about the bacterial disease of plague — and the variant known as pneumonic plague.

The pop superstar is showing art from his personal collection for the first time. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is ...