Category: Northeast Arkansas
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK – Sept. 15, 2026 – Gas prices in Arkansas are nearing $4 per gallon again, just as the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meets in Washington, D.C., for a two-day session to consider raising interest rates to curb rising inflation and price increases across the U.S. economy. […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK – Aug. 29, 2026 – Gov. Sarah Sanders today announced $149.3 million in awards for the first round of the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), including several grant recipients across the Arkansas Delta that will benefit from the $50 billion federal initiative created by President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 1, 2026 – Pump prices in Arkansas are looking to breach the $4 per gallon mark in the coming weeks as oil prices surge above $100 per barrel with no indication of when the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, experts say. And with the traditional summer driving season only weeks away ahead […]
JONESBORO – April 24, 2026 – Arkansas State University (ASU) and New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) have selected the first cohort for a new program the smooth the path for entering freshmen to eventually become doctors. A-State and NYITCOM announced that six students were selection on Monday (April 20) to […]