Dr. Jennifer Ballard, state wildlife veterinarian with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, joins us on the latest episode of Capitol & Scott to discuss the agency’s efforts to track and manage chronic wasting disease in the state’s deer and elk populations.
Lethal overdoses of an illicit form of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid used for pain treatments, are on the rise in Arkansas. The drug, which...
Soon after the pandemic began in March 2020, food banks and other hunger-relief organizations experienced some of the greatest need from individuals and families...
In 2021, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter Stephen Simpson won a grant from the University of Southern California’s Center for Health Journalism to work on a...