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May 13, 2015
Work now being done on 131 federally funded road and bridge construction projects in Arkansas worth $1.5 billion would cease if congressional authorization for transportation funding expired May 31 without a new deal, according to state highway officials.
May 12, 2015
Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-Hot Springs) issued the following statement Monday (May 12) after voting for H.R. 1732, the Regulatory Integrity Protection Act of 2015.
Issues:Accountability
May 12, 2015
An unstable storm system that brewed over the weekend with warm, moist air spawned at least one tornado that killed two people in southwest Arkansas on Sunday evening and dumped up to 8 inches of rain over much of the state, washing out roads and flooding creeks and rivers.
May 12, 2015
An unstable storm system that brewed over the weekend with warm, moist air spawned at least one tornado that killed two people in southwest Arkansas on Sunday evening and dumped up to 8 inches of rain over much of the state, washing out roads and flooding creeks and rivers.
May 12, 2015
An unstable storm system that brewed over the weekend with warm, moist air spawned at least one tornado that killed two people in southwest Arkansas on Sunday evening and dumped up to 8 inches of rain over much of the state, washing out roads and flooding creeks and rivers.
May 11, 2015
Officials say Michael and Melissa Mooneyhan died when a tornado hit their mobile home. Authorities believe the husband and wife saved their daughter.
May 11, 2015
For the first time in more than 20 years, there was a celebration Monday of major construction activity at the Port of Pine Bluff and city officials couldn't have been any happier.
Southwind Milling, which is in the final stages of construction of a new rice mill, held a topping-out ceremony as the last beam, bearing flags and a Christmas Tree, was placed at the top of the structure, and according to a construction manager, the ceremony means "everything is downhill from here."
Issues:Jobs and Economic Growth
May 11, 2015
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson issued a proclamation Monday (May 11) declaring ten counties disaster areas following a weekend of severe weather that included flooding and tornadoes.
May 11, 2015
Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-Hot Springs) issued the following statement regarding deaths and damage from storms that impacted the Fourth District city of Nashville on Sunday evening (May 10).
May 10, 2015
U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., joined World War II veteran Floyd Brantley of Arkadelphia at a WWII victory gala Thursday at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum. The program featured was "A Conversation with Heroes," with firsthand accounts of the conflict. Ninety-year-old former President George H.W. Bush, a pilot who fought the Japanese, was the keynote speaker.