A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. U.S.

ExxonMobil has paid $100 million to lease roughly 120,000 acres in southern Arkansas to extract a mineral increasingly vital to modern technology: lithium.

Exxon Mobil, a new player in the hunt for U.S. lithium, is planning to build one of the world’s largest lithium processing facilities not far from Magnolia, with a capacity to produce 75,000 to 100,000 metric tons of lithium a year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Surplus driven in part by increased sales tax revenues. Anyone want to venture a guess as to how the surplus will be used?

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday named state Republican Party chairman and former federal prosecutor Cody Hiland to the Arkansas Supreme Court.

The case had been closely watched as an important test of whether bans on transition care for minors, enacted by more than a dozen states, could withstand challenges.

Arkansas’ first house of the Lord is opening for free public tours this week. Invited guests are touring the Bentonville Arkansas Temple from today, June 12, to Friday, June 16. Public tours will then commence June 17.