4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (815+ words) The Arkansas Department of Human Services launched a new mobile app Monday to help food stamp beneficiaries navigate a new ban on junk food purchases that will go into effect this week. Arkansas is one of several states that received…...

4+ hour, 27+ min ago  (379+ words) The U. S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld birthright citizenship, ruling that nearly everyone born on U. S. soil is a citizen and rejecting President Donald Trump's order to end the practice for many immigrants' children. The court ruled 6-3, with Chief Justice John Roberts…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago  (234+ words) Arkansas law enforcement is joining a national push to stop drunk driving over the Fourth of July, one of the deadliest stretches of the year on the nation's roads. The effort, led by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration alongside…...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago  (276+ words) According to Sgt. Sydney Grant, AGFC Boating Law Administrator, Arkansas game wardens will conduct their annual Operation Dry Water campaign July 3-5 to increase safety on Arkansas water and reduce boating accidents that result from boating under the influence of alcohol…...

4+ hour, 17+ min ago  (495+ words) Mountain Home's City Council will take up the second reading of an ordinance that overhauls how the city regulates food trucks, mobile vendors and food truck courts. The measure would repeal two ordinances passed in 2020 and fold their rules into…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago  (264+ words) Christopher Fulton is an award-winning investigative journalist and U. S. Navy veteran living in Arkansas. Fulton graduated from the University of Memphis in 2020 summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. After seeing a void in Mountain Home's local news market,…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1066+ words) Two religiously infused displays on Arkansas Capitol grounds have drawn state and national attention: the Ten Commandments statue that a judge has ordered removed and a planned "monument to the unborn" backed by abortion opponents that's faced planning setbacks." Such…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (427+ words) A state ban on using food stamps to buy soft drinks and candy takes effect Wednesday, July 1, changing what hundreds of thousands of Arkansans can put in their carts. The change comes through a federal waiver Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (276+ words) Baxter Health has added Dr. Gerald Belopolsky to its Pulmonology Clinic, where he is now accepting new patients. Belopolsky practices pulmonary and critical care medicine, the specialty focused on the lungs, breathing and the care of seriously ill patients, often…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (320+ words) Mountain Home Observer publisher Chris Fulton has won the first Center for Integrity in News Reporting award presented in Arkansas. Fulton received the 2025 honor for "The 29 Warnings That Didn't Matter," the Observer's investigation into how state child-welfare officials handled a…...