Norfork Schools receives $10k Forward Arkansas grant 1 MIN READ
LITTLE ROCK — Forward Arkansas announced Thursday it will support eight districts, including Norfork Schools, in maximizing their educational investments t...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
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Little Rock, Arkansas. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Pulaski. Associated ZIP codes: 72201, 72202, 72203, 72204, 72205, 72206, 72207, 72209, 72210, 72211, 72212, 72214, 72215, 72216, 72217, 72219, 72221, 72222, 72223, 72225, 72227, 72231, 72255, 72260, 72295.
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Susan Brown has translated her love of singing in the company of symphony players to support of the Arkansas Symphony. She and husband Nick Brown are longtim...
Nov 2, 2026Open source
Little Rock School District receives $480,000 federal grant to support student mental health
When Little Rock School District Superintendent Jermall Wright got a text from an Arkansas Department of Education official asking if the district could use...
Oct 29, 2026Open source
Arkansas-Little Rock men’s basketball team hosts UAPB in 2nd Central Arkansas Tip-Off Classic
The Arkansas-Little Rock men’s basketball team will host Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the final preseason tuneup for both teams ahead of their respective season...
Oct 28, 2026Open source
Mansfield couple's Arkansas trip turns tragic after gunfire erupts at gas station
James Parker was a husband was shot and killed at a has station in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Oct 21, 2026Open source
Wolves drop Thursday match with UCA
West Georgia (4-12) dropped Tuesday’s match against Central Arkansas (2-11) three sets to one. The Wolves continue UAC action on the road facing Little Roc...
Oct 4, 2026Open source
Today in History: Sept. 25, Military escorts Little Rock Nine into Central High
On Sept. 25, 1957, nine Black students who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were...
Sep 26, 2026Open source
WEHCO Media Inc. announces newspaper job cuts
Little Rock-based WEHCO Media Inc., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, said Tuesday that it was laying off about 30% of its workforce as well as 25%...
Oct 28, 2026Open source
In race for Pulaski County-based Senate District 13, Republican Achor outraises Democrat Sweatman by 9-to-1
Arkansas Senate candidate Rep. Brandon Achor, R-Maumelle, has raised more than nine times the amount of contributions compared to his opponent, Democratic ca...
Oct 25, 2026Open source
Central Arkansas Library System hosts Civic Action Network class on media literacy
School was in session Saturday afternoon at the main branch of the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock, and the topic was media literacy.
Oct 25, 2026Open source
OPINION | DANCE REVIEW: Ballet Arkansas raises the bar, meets the challenge of ‘Great Gatsby’
Stage something with the word "Great" in the title and you've already raised the bar. Ballet Arkansas meets that challenge in its season opener, "The Great G...
Oct 24, 2026Open source
RESTAURANT TRANSITIONS: Nine restaurants, three restaurateurs are Food Hall of Fame finalists
Nine Arkansas restaurants, including Stoby's in Conway, Trio's in Little Rock and the Dixie Pig in Blytheville, are finalists for inclusion in the 2026 Arkan...
Oct 22, 2026Open source
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Little Rock is in Pulaski County, Arkansas.
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72201, 72202, 72203, 72204, 72205, 72206, 72207, 72209, 72210, 72211, 72212, 72214, 72215, 72216, 72217, 72219, 72221, 72222, 72223, 72225, 72227, 72231, 72255, 72260, 72295
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Little Rock is named for a stone outcrop on the bank of the Arkansas River that travelers used as a landmark where the flat Mississippi Delta meets the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. The French explorer and trader Jean-Baptiste Benard de la Harpe named it in 1722. At its founding in the 1820s there was an effort to call the town Arkopolis, and that name appeared on a few maps, but Little Rock stuck.
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The territorial capital had been at Arkansas Post since 1819, but the site flooded often. In February 1820 a St. Louis land speculator who owned land around the little rock pressed the territorial legislature to move the capital there, while Governor James Miller preferred Cadron, now Conway. The question was put off until October 1820, by which time most legislators and other influential men had bought lots in Little Rock. The legislature then moved the capital to Little Rock, where it has stayed. In 1957 the Little Rock School Board voted to begin desegregation under Brown v. Board of Education. On September 4, 1957, a white mob blocked nine Black students recruited by Daisy Bates and the NAACP from entering Central High School: Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls. Governor Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to keep them out and withdrew it only under a federal court injunction from Judge Ronald Davies. When the students entered and white mobs rioted, President Eisenhower sent federal troops at the request of Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann. Sources Wikipedia: Little Rock, Arkansas
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