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A new SIG Sauer ammo manufacturing plant in Jacksonville and expansion of a Remington Outdoor Company ammo plant in Lonoke are expected to add more than 130 manufacturing jobs in Arkansas, according to announcements made Thursday (Jan. 21) by Gov. Asa Hutchinson.... Read more »

Standing beside Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks spoke of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday in primarily spiritual terms Monday at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in North Little Rock.... Read more »

Several thousand people gathered on the steps of the Arkansas Capitol on Sunday to celebrate a year of achievement for abortion opponents in Arkansas and encourage more anti-abortion legislation.... Read more »

WASHINGTON -- Arkansas voters, during the midterm elections of 2014, picked a banker and a forester to fill vacant seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.... Read more »

The Conway Board of Education discussed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm-to-School Grant the district received during its regular meeting Tuesday night. The district received a planning grant to design a local food processing kitchen program in a centralized school kitchen facility that will allow schools to serve nutritious, local produce throughout the year. The… Read more »

Today, after the House passed S.J.Res. 22, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the definition of "waters of the United States" under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement... Read more »

WASHINGTON -- In January in the nation's capital, the State of the Union address is the biggest show in town, and tickets to it are scarce and coveted.... Read more »

Today, after President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union Address, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement... Read more »

The U.S. House chamber was filled to the brim Tuesday night as President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union Address at the Capitol. In the nearly one hour, 5,452-word speech, Obama touched on several issues including the economy, national security and politics in general. Obama began the speech with a look at the upcoming campaign.... Read more »

In what will be his last State of the Union address, the president will stand in front of a Congress with a considerably different makeup than the one he was first greeted by in 2009—and he has only himself and his “my-way-or-the-highway” leadership style to blame... Read more »