Category: Central Arkansas
By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – March 5, 2026 – The Arkansas Lottery has birthed another multimillionaire for the second time in less than four months, state lottery officials announced after Monday night’s winning jackpot. A jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $250.8 million was sold in Arkansas for the March 2 drawing. […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff Feb. 4, 2026 – Fuel prices in Arkansas and across the U.S. are expected to rise above $3 per gallon in the coming weeks as international oil markets react to President Trump’s launch of Operation Epic Fury in Iran over the weekend, experts predict. As of today, the average price […]
By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK — Feb. 24, 2026 – Profits at Arkansas’ federally insured banks remained competitive in the final quarter of 2025, mirroring a national trend of “strong earnings” and robust loan growth even as the industry navigates lingering weakness in commercial real estate. For the period ended Dec. 31, […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality StaffLITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Feb. 20, 2026 – The Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) today approved the initial tranche of Arkansas’s more than $1.2 billion in federal funds from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program awards, allocating $126.1 million to expand high-speed broadband access in most rural areas of […]