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Arkansans who may have concerns about going to the polls this November while the health crisis continues can make plans now to ensure their vote counts. Arkansas law allows voters to request absentee ballots if they will be “unavoidably absent” on Election Day or if they have illnesses or physical disabilities. Arkansas Secretary of State […]

There were 817 new cases, 6 deaths, and 12 additional hospitalizations reported at today’s COVID-19 daily update.The Governor announced today he will sign an executive order mandating face coverings. The order will become effective on Monday.It will mandate face coverings for indoor and outdoor settings for exposure to non-household members where 6 feet of distance […]

There were 564 new cases, four deaths, and an increase of 13 hospitalizations reported at today’s COVID-19 briefing.Counties with more than 20 new cases are as follows:Pulaski-78Sebastian-52Washington-46Benton-38There have been 80,862 tests conducted so far this month. The goal for July was to conduct 200,000 tests. The Governor said the state is behind in reaching that […]

There were 794 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the last 24 hours. The Department of Health also reported eight deaths and eight additional hospitalizations. The counties with more than 20 new cases are as follows: Pulaski-111 Washington-68 Sebastian-52 Pope-41 Johnson-37 Benton-36 Craighead-29 Faulkner-24 The Governor began the daily press briefing today by thanking Arkansas’ […]

There were 572 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Arkansas in the last 24 hours. The Department of Health also reported two additional deaths and 19 additional hospitalizations. Of the new hospitalizations, 9 are patients at the Arkansas State Hospital.Counties with 20 or more new cases are as follows:Pulaski-77Washington-53Sebastian-40Pope-25Benton-23Mississippi-23Crittenden-22Craighead-20Jefferson-20The Governor while we currently have enough […]

There were 751 new cases reported in today’s COVID-19 daily update. There were 4 additional deaths and 8 additional hospitalizations also reported. Of the new cases, 145 are from Hot Spring County. The Health Department says the vast majority of those cases are from the Ouachita River Correctional Facility. Other counties with more than 20 […]

This week, the Education Secretary Johnny Key made a presentation to the House and Senate Education Committee about the Arkansas Ready for Learning initiative. Ready for Learning is a planning and guidance document created to serve as a game plan for district and school administrators as they begin to grapple with making decisions for the […]

There were 806 new cases of COVID-19 reported at today’s briefing. The Governor announced there had been four additional deaths and 36 additional hospitalizations since yesterday.The counties with the highest number of new cases are as follows:Pulaski-104Washington-78Sebastian-56Benton-49Faulkner-51The Governor said today that we will be having school next year. To allow districts more time to prepare […]

The Health Department reported an increase of 734 cases today. The breakdown of counties with more than 20 new cases is as follows: Washington-72Pulaski-87Benton-60Pope-46Mississippi-39Yell-32Johnson-26Saline-21 There have been 4 deaths in the last 24 hours. Hospitalizations are down by 11. The Governor reminded those in Northwest Arkansas that Washington Regional is not the only testing location […]

There were 259 additional cases reported at this afternoon’s COVID-19 update. Of those, 57 were from Pulaski County, 14 were from Washington County and 26 were from Benton County.Health officials say the number of testing has decreased due to the holiday weekend.There were 9 additional deaths reported in the last 24 hours. Of those, 5 […]

There were an additional 439 cases of COVID-19 reported in today’s briefing. Of those, 77 cases were in Washington County, 46 were from Pulaski County, 36 were from Yell County, and 36 were from Benton County.Health Secretary Dr. Nate Smith said he is particularly concerned about the rise of cases in Central Arkansas. He said […]

As the state began a new fiscal year this week, we received optimistic news about the state budget.The fiscal year for the state budget always ends on June 30 and begins on July 1.While general revenue for Fiscal Year 2020 was $168 million less than the year before, it was $369 million above what economic […]