Months of service across central Arkansas will be celebrated this weekend at the Central Arkansas City Fest.

First and always, it's the music. The sustaining memory from the annual blues festival over the weekend will be of sitting mesmerized amid a gentle cooling breeze on the Mississippi River levee late Thursday night.

More than 200 churches have partnered to make central Arkansas cleaner by the end of October.

Well, it wasn't going to be the biggest scoop of the year but it was a nice little item until Gov.

Gov. Mike Beebe will travel to the Caribbean island of Cuba next week to promote the state's agricultural interests.

Work is being done in bits and pieces for two new cross-country interstate highways that will run through Arkansas.

I moderated a panel discussion of rural state legislators last week at the state Rural Services Department's rural development conference.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STEVE KEESEE Hundreds attended a rally Saturday for the Dry Counties Coalition at the Capitol in Little Rock to protest recent decisions by the state Alcohol Beverage Control Board to allow restaurants in dry counties to serve alcohol under the exemption for the private clubs.

Three Arkansas police departments are among only 27 nationwide that are ineligible for federal economic stimulus grants from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services program.

The Department of Justice is handing out $1 billion in stimulus dollars to cities and towns across the country to hire more police officers.

A proposed 3.3-percent cut that cleared a House committee Wednesday could translate into a $400,000 to $450,000 cut in the Arkansas City School District's $19 million general budget for next year, a school district official said today.