Fayetteville business owners may now choose whether to return to using Styrofoam containers beginning this summer.

Active COVID-19 cases fell to 1,939 Monday, and have been hovering around 2,000 since late March.

Around 200 students gathered on the lawn of Old Main Friday afternoon to  protest the university's handling of sexual assault cases and their treatment of survivors.

Nearly 29% of the total U.S. population is fully immunized against COVID-19, while just 22% of the Arkansas population is.

A petition created Sunday has over 1,300 signatures in support of five courses of action a former student and sexual assault survivor is asking University officials to take to support survivors on campus.

Some neurodivergent students are looking toward a safer future and more in-person learning after struggling with anxiety, isolation and trouble focusing during remote learning over the past year.

UA freshmen this school year experienced an introduction to university life unlike any before, struggling with isolation, remote learning and a loss of college normalcy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has derailed Ramadan observances for Muslims in Fayetteville.

Transgender individuals in Arkansas are expressing disappointment, anger and fear for the future amid a slew of anti-transgender legislation passed or proposed in the General Assembly this session.

With the NWA population expected to rise by 80,000 households in the next twenty years, the region’s small amount of unoccupied housing is causing an affordability crisis.

Thursday’s survivor support and education event was the first to be held in the Chi Omega Greek Theatre since it began in 2002.

The UA concert committee is set to stream their annual spring music festival on April 23, offering virtual performances and an in-person watch party from artists like Remi Wolf and T-Pain.

Protestors chanted “no justice, no peace, prosecute the police” and celebrated the resilience of LGBTQ Arkansans at the multi-faceted “Rally for Our Rights” on Sunday.

All adults in the U.S. are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Organizers from University Programs and the Sexual and Relationship Violence Center hosted a variety of survivor support and advocacy-focused events for healing and support week Monday-Friday.

Sexual Health Organization and Outreach, a new RSO dedicated to destigmatizing discussions of sexual health, launched April 6.

City mask mandates remain in place in Fayetteville and Springdale, while Rogers and Bentonville never had such mandates.

Pat Walker Health Care officials have paused the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine until more information and further instructions are available.

The FDA has asked states to put Johnson & Johnson vaccine distribution on pause.

City of Fayetteville employees are set to change Leroy Pond Drive to Nolan Richardson Drive on April 16, one month after lawmakers unanimously approved the name change.

The UA concert committee is set to stream their annual spring music festival on April 23, offering virtual performances from artists like AJR and T-Pain

Two-time U.S. Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman reflected on her time as an elite athlete, her role as a sexual abuse advocate and her life after retirement Tuesday at the Distinguished Lectures Committee’s first hybrid event since the pandemic began.

The UA Lavender Society’s first spring semester graduation ceremony will take place remotely Saturday, after last spring’s ceremony was pushed to the fall because of COVID-19.

With a 96-32 vote Tuesday, Arkansas state legislators overturned Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of House Bill 1570, which prohibits doctors from providing gender affirming care to transgender minors.

Republican lawmakers are likely to overturn the veto of HB1570, which passed the state House of Representatives 70-22 on March 11.

By Monday, state health officials had administered over 1.2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, as active cases fell to just over 1,600.

Despite the more than one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered in the state, most Arkansans remain unvaccinated. For some, this is a choice.

NWA bar owners are cautiously beginning to expand their operations in the wake of state officials lifting health directives.

While Arkansas’ statewide mask mandate has ended, local elected officials and business owners are free to set individual policies.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson is set to lift the mask mandate at the end of March, while the state of emergency declared because of the ongoing pandemic will be in effect for another two months.

Eight international exchange students travelled to Fayetteville to attend a mix of in-person and online classes during the Spring 2021 semester.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson said positive trends in case numbers, hospitalizations, vaccinations and testing lead him to believe he will lift the mandate as planned in nine days.

After facing months of closure and losing their downtown rental space, the Fenix Gallery is rising from the ashes and toward a new home on Mount Sequoyah.

A $100,000 grant will allow organizers and volunteers in the Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry and the Razorback Food Recovery Program to offer more food and other services.

FPD officers responded to a call Thursday morning regarding the death of a 20-year-old male.

Arkansans across the state are raising awareness for period poverty through menstrual product drives, monetary donations and legislative bills.

Eligible UA community members included in Phases 1-A, 1-B or 1-C can now make vaccine appointments at Pat Walker Health Center or other participating facilities.

Eligible members of the UA community can now make appointments to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Pat Walker Health Center.

A state legislation, which includes no exceptions for rape or incest, is designed to force a challenge of the Roe v. Wade landmark precedent.

Students gathered Saturday morning to protest racism on the UA campus and call for the removal of prominent campus figures J. William Fulbright and Charles Brough.

The current minimum wage for UA GAs is $12,516 per year, about $10,000 less than is needed for a single adult to live independently in Washington County.

Some students find remote learning has improved their grades and provided free time to spend with loved ones or pursue personal interests.

Mutual aid groups in Northwest Arkansas, among hundreds across the country, are providing food, rental, utility, and other assistance.

Religious leaders have altered the way worship services, ceremonies and holidays take place in their houses of worship to help protect their congregants’ health.

At the discretion of departments and professors, limited remote learning options may remain after the university returns to primarily in-person instruction next semester.

UA professors and other educators have spent a year adjusting to new technologies and their inability to interact with and assist students in person

The homelessness crisis in Northwest Arkansas has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on unemployment, food insecurity and housing affordability.

New groups eligible under Phase 1-B can now receive the COVID-19 vaccine, including postal workers, some government employees, Arkansans working in manufacturing, grocery store employees and others.

Through the proxies of student government leaders, students expressed concerns about recent sexual assaults, high student fees, and campus racism to the chancellor Thursday.

The world governing body for sports cycling recognized Fayetteville as the first international “Bike City” in the U.S., and the second in North America.