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12/30/2025
It's been six days, and that $1.8B lotto ticket sold at a Cabot gas station on Xmas Eve is still unclaimed.
Our guess is the ticketholder is keeping the news secret for several weeks while subjecting his or her friends and family to an escalating series of challenges stress-testing their loyalty and personal character. If you know someone who's been acting unusually needy or difficult recently, especially in Lonoke County, you should probably assume they’re the Powerball winner and behave accordingly.
If you stopped for gas in Cabot on Christmas Eve and happened to buy a lotto ticket on a whim, go give your floorboards and glovebox a quick check.
12/30/2025
LaNier dedicated this book to her two grandchildren, and said she wanted children to understand the history of the Little Rock Nine in a suitable way for them.
12/30/2025
American farmers are suffering in a global trade war of our own making. Will a $12 billion bandaid keep Arkansas Republicans voting red? https://buff.ly/3VgdSwb
Despite ample warnings that a trade war was going to make Americans poorer, it took our “very stable genius” of a president nearly 12 months to realize he shot himself in the foot and was driving one…
12/30/2025
A new outdoors education focused public charter school is aiming to open in Little Rock next year. But first, they are seeking financing from Pulaski County.
The Arkansas Outdoor Academy wants to open its doors in August 2026, and the school leaders are looking for financial support from Pulaski County.
12/30/2025
What captivated our readers' attention in 2025? School vouchers, of course. Tornadoes. The outrages of the Trump administration. A vigilante killing in Lonoke County. And ... endangered freshwater mussels?
At the end of December, we can't help but look back at what ended up getting the most clicks and views these last 12 months. Here are our top 10 most-read stories of 2025.
12/30/2025
Early voting begins today in House District 70 (NLR/Sherwood/LRAFB) and Senate District 26 (parts of Logan, Sebastian, Ozark and Johnson counties). Here are the dates, times and locations for you to exercise your civic duty. https://buff.ly/AFLP1Uq
Two special primary (and subsequent general) elections will fill vacant legislative seats in House District 70 and Senate District 26.
12/29/2025
Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz committed tax and Medicaid fraud, but won a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. Arkansas was not as forgiving. https://buff.ly/LkMMysy
A felon from New York reports to the Arkansas Department of Corrections for at least 31 days behind bars.
12/29/2025
From wrestling to rodeo, with plenty in between, the Arkansas Times’ sports coverage brought sports stories and angles you couldn’t find anywhere else in 2025. Here are some of the best. https://buff.ly/2vAoneU
From wrestling to rodeo, with plenty in between, the Arkansas Times' sports coverage brought sports stories and angles you couldn't find anywhere else in 2025. Here are some of the best.
12/29/2025
Funding a national network of children's hospitals seems like a pretty great way to share your good fortune. https://buff.ly/lsWkIsP
A philanthropist from New York state donates $50 million to advance pediatric care in Arkansas.
12/29/2025
Every year is a good year for music in The Natural State. But with the long-awaited return of Rwake and Adam Faucett, the debut of Jupiter’s Flytrap and a purposeful farewell from Banzai Florist, this list of our favorite Arkansas-connected albums of 2025 feels extra special.
12/26/2025
The most notable agriculture and environment stories of 2025, in no particular order.
Merry Christmas! Take a look back on some of the most important environment and agriculture stories of 2025. The next year is sure to bring far more on these issues and more.
12/26/2025
The Little Rock Police Department earned lots of Arkansas Times headlines this year, usually for bad reasons. We wrote about their misdeeds often enough that we’ve put a list together looking back at the police department in 2025.
We wrote about the LRPD's misdeeds often enough that we’ve put a list together looking back at the police department in 2025.
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The Arkansas Times was first published in 1974 as the Union Station Times, a slim 8-by-10 1/2-inch newsprint bi-monthly whose founder, Alan Leveritt, wanted to see more investigative reporting in print. (Little Rock had two daily newspapers at the time, but both were newspapers of record, focusing on beat reporting.) Since then, it has gone from newsprint bimonthly to slick magazine to weekly tabloid and back to a magazine, with an online presence starting in the mid-1990s.
Bill Terry, who came on in 1975, described the paper’s origins in a 2014 issue celebrating the Times’ 40th anniversary:
“I will never forget that first day at the office. Back then, Alan had one pair of pants, two shirts and a pair of shoes with one sole that flapped. He drove a 1961 black and white Ford that was scarred like a cueball and had tires slick as cannonballs, and he lived in the Terminal Hotel in a $10-a-week room with a warehouse view and neighbors down the hall who went to bed and got up in the morning thinking of muscatel. Alan had come into the office a few minutes before, and it was raining. The door wouldn’t shut tight, the rain was blowing in and there were two or three leaks in the roof that splattered on the floor making a sound like a very slow and half-crazy clock. A cat came in, looked around and went back out into the rain. The place was drafty: on the order of driving a car with the windows down, and it had a chain-pull toilet that flushed with a kind of wail and groan that reminded you of a boatload of people sinking. The furniture was what you would call gothic salvage, and included ripped chairs, leaning desks, a table made of unfinished plywood set on concrete blocks and a couple of typewriters with unreadable keys.”
The newspaper became the Arkansas Times in 1975 and was able to pay its staff soon enough. Its switch to a weekly publication was an answer to the demise of Little Rock’s progressive newspaper, the Arkansas Gazette, once a family paper and then a Gannett publication purchased after a long newspaper war by its right-wing competitor, the Arkansas Democrat. The Times hired several people from the Gazette and filled the liberal editorial vacancy left by the Gazette’s death. Its advocating reporting and the Arkansas Blog, Arkansas’s first online political blog, has been the scourge of reactionary right-wingers and quick to take on misdeeds coming from the left, as well.
The Times, struggling with advertising like all print media, changed formats in 2019, returning to its magazine style and publishing monthly. Only the format has changed; the Times online and in print continues to investigate, advocate, elucidate and entertain.
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