Arkansas news

• What’s Love got to do with it? A Q&A with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Fred Love

  21-08-2026 20:15 via arktimes.com
  
  Democrat Fred Love of Mabelvale is clocking out of his time in the Arkansas Legislature at the end of 2026, with the aim of clocking in at the governor’s office. Elected to the state House in 2010, he leveled up to the Senate in 2023. Now, he’s challenging Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Libertarian Colt Shelby this November. Sounds really hard, right? Arkansas Democrats have a nice platform and all, with designs on lower grocery and fuel prices, better public e
  
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• 150 people evacuated as crews battle wildfire in south Arkansas

  21-08-2026 18:31 via arktimes.com
  
  About 150 people in Union County have been evacuated as crews worked to contain a wildfire that’s grown to 2,000 acres, Arkansas authorities said Friday morning.The Arkansas Department of Agriculture said in a post on X that the fire at Pine Tree Road has been burning since Thursday night.“Ten bulldozers are currently working the fire, and we are preparing replacement crews from other parts of the state,” the department’s post said. “A detection flight over southea
  
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• Arkansas medical groups urge Trump administration to grant 2-year reprieve for Medicaid expansion

  21-08-2026 16:40 via arktimes.com
  
  Dozens of healthcare providers and organizations urged the federal government Wednesday to grant Arkansas officials’ request for two years to come up with a new Medicaid expansion model.The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services verbally denied a five-year extension of the Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me, or ARHOME. The Department of Human Services has not yet received a formal notification of the denial, nor has it received a response to the agency’s request for
  
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