Participation in the Arkansas Martin Luther King Council’s programs heightens in January and February, but the council is pursuing this same level of participation in year-round events. 

Reactions to Donald Trump’s indictment and arrest have been a mix between condemnations and declarations of faith in the American justice system.

Republicans took control in the House of Representatives, but the absence of a “red wave” allowed Democrats to hold onto the Senate.

Twelve women will serve as governors next year, the most at any time in American history.

The UA community weighed in on President Biden’s recent federal pardon for marijuana possession.

A UA assistant professor studied the pandemic’s effect on Black-owned businesses last year, finding gaps between Black-owned businesses and other businesses.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, leaving reproductive rights up to the decision of state lawmakers.

Known active cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas topped 1,300 Tuesday after previously falling below 1,000.

The Department of Justice will likely fight to reinstate the mandate if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reaffirm its importance to public health.

Ukrainian students, faculty members and their families fear for the safety of their loved ones in Ukraine and wonder when they will be able to return to their war-torn homeland.

Some students have experienced new or relapsing symptoms of eating disorders amid the uncertainty and stress of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Online sex work has become a more popular way to make money, allowing creators to sell their explicit content via sites such as OnlyFans.

Former colleagues remember Peabody-winning filmmaker Brent Renaud as a brave, truth-seeking journalist who dedicated his career to highlighting overlooked human suffering.

Some parents in Northwest Arkansas think books featuring sexual content, discussions of race and other sensitive subjects should be banned from school and public libraries.

Bus driver shortages across Northwest Arkansas this school year have meant that some students regularly arrive at school behind schedule or get home hours late.

Community members expressed fear about the start of a third world war amid tensions between Western nations and Russia following the latter’s invasion of Ukraine.

Travel nursing has provided thousands of frustrated, underpaid staff nurses a lucrative way out over the course of the pandemic, but the nursing shortage is straining the U.S. healthcare system.

The COVID-19 pandemic hindered most students’ ability to study abroad in 2020 or 2021, but many are starting to feel safe to travel internationally again.

Community members marched through downtown Fayetteville on Saturday to advocate for women’s reproductive rights after the introduction of restrictions on abortion in several states.

Democrat Joe Biden has defeated incumbent Donald Trump to become the 46th President of the United States.

Locals joined a small protest near the Washington County Courthouse Wednesday night to advocate for complete counting of all votes in the presidential election.

Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads the presidential race with 224 electoral votes as of Wednesday at 1:00 a.m.

As Election Day looms, nearly 60 million Americans have already cast ballots during early or through absentee voting. Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading President Donald Trump by 8% of the vote in NBC News’ aggregation of ten national polls.

A Northwest Arkansas nurse is looking to defeat an incumbent Congressman who won his previous election by a landslide.

Bud Walton Arena became an early voting location for three days last week, marking the first time a polling place has been on the UA campus.

Early voting has started in Arkansas, and options for Arkansans to cast their ballot are flexible.

Groups on the UA campus are mourning the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as they prepare for the upcoming presidential election and remember her legacy.

Two UA students were expelled from Sigma Chi after a video circulated social media appearing to show them mocking the killing of George Floyd.

Thousands of Australians feel that the Australian government has not done enough to try and help communities recover from wildfires that have been burning since September.

The effects of U.S. foreign policy have extended to Palestinian and Israeli students in Arkansas.

Following Trump’s Jan. 3 strike that killed a top Iranian general, tensions between the U.S. and Iran have heightened, causing distress for Iranian citizens in the U.S. and their families in Iran.

Students who vape do not think tighter regulations on flavored vape juice sales will halt consumption of the products.

One student fears that people will lose interest in relief efforts in the wake of fires in the Amazon as they are no longer trending.

A federal judge ruled April 24 against President Donald Trump’s administration's efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which some UA students depend on for legal status, and demanded that DACA be fully reinstated.

Protesters with the Arkansas United Community Coalition gathered outside of Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R) district office in Springdale on Thursday morning to voice their support for the passage of a Dream Act that protects recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and their f…

An Associated Press report published Jan. 2 claims that the UofA does not have statistics or does not consistently collect data on student suicides.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture granted the UA System Division of Agriculture $300,000 last September to create programs that will educate rural Arkansans about the dangers of opioid abuse.

The UA communication master’s program became top in the nation by receiving the Outstanding Master’s Degree Program Award for 2017 from the National Communication Association.