All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 24 2019 // The Arkansas River remains too high and fast to assess flood damage in the Little Rock area, officials say.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the removal of silt and the restoration of the channel for barge traffic are...
Jun 20 2019 // Federal disaster assistance has been approved for four more Oklahoma counties affected by severe storms, flooding and tornadoes last month.Gov. Kevin Stitt said the Federal Emergency Management Agency had added Cherokee,...
Jun 20 2019 // Tower Hill Specialty is now offering manufactured housing and dwelling fire insurance policies in Arkansas.Optional coverage features include equipment breakdown and service line endorsements. The equipment breakdown...
Jun 18 2019 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says four more counties in Arkansas have been approved for disaster assistance as a result of damage from storms and flooding that began May 21.Heavy rains produced record flooding...
Jun 17 2019 // The Arkansas Insurance Department at the end of May announced a 60-day moratorium on the cancellation/non-renewal of policies for non-payment of premiums after Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared a State of Emergency due to the...
Jun 10 2019 // About 600 Tulsa County homes and business were inundated during last week’s historic flooding along the swollen Arkansas River, city officials said.Joe Kralicek, executive director of the Tulsa Area Emergency...
Jun 10 2019 // Arkansas’ governor has asked President Donald Trump to declare a major disaster for eight counties that have been hit by historic flooding along the Arkansas River. Gov. Asa Hutchinson asked Trump in a letter dated...
Jun 10 2019 // As the waters of the swollen Arkansas River rose in Little Rock, and threatened to reach record heights, Samuel Ellis had to make the tough, but prudent, decision to indefinitely shutter kayak rentals from his tour...
Jun 5 2019 // The chief insurance regulator in Arkansas says he has approved more than 50,000 new individual producer and adjuster licenses since his tenure began in January 2015.In a statement released by the Arkansas Insurance...
Jun 3 2019 // Storm-weary residents in Oklahoma were gutting waterlogged homes Sunday as the Arkansas River continued its slow crest rolling hundreds of miles downstream, even as many kept a cautious eye on this week’s weather...
May 31 2019 // Rain-swollen rivers threatened more flooding on Thursday in Arkansas, Louisiana, Illinois and Oklahoma, as Tulsa’s mayor warned that the decades-old levee system in his city would be at risk even as waters receded...
May 30 2019 // The Arkansas River neared a historic crest on May 29 in Arkansas’ second-largest city, but officials said the levee system was “performing admirably” from the rush of water coming downstream from...
May 30 2019 // The Arkansas Insurance Department announced a 60-day moratorium on the cancellation/non-renewal of policies for the non-payment of premiums by Arkansans affected by the flooding of the Arkansas River under Gov. Asa...
May 21 2019 // The heavy rain, high winds and hail that swept across the southern Great Plains is now headed to Arkansas and Missouri, where farmers are already struggling to get crops in the ground in a brutally wet spring.The massive...
May 20 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group, Atlantic Specialty LinesRyan Specialty Group has agreed to acquire the assets and operations of Atlantic Specialty Lines, Inc. (ASL), a privately owned wholesale insurance brokerage headquartered in...
May 10 2019 // Several people were injured when a possible tornado tore the roof off an Arkansas apartment building, part of a powerful line of thunderstorms that was dumping more rain Thursday on already drenched areas throughout the...
May 2 2019 // Parsippany, New Jersey-based CRC Group, a nationwide wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products, has acquired Argenia LLC, a Little Rock, Arkansas-based managing general agent (MGA) and surplus lines...
May 2 2019 // Severe thunderstorms spawned numerous tornadoes across northern Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, downing trees and utility lines and damaging roofs. No injuries have been reported. The National Weather Service issued numerous...
May 1 2019 // Crain Automotive Holdings Inc., headquartered in Sherwood, Arkansas, will pay $27,100 to a former employee as part of the settlement of a federal disability discrimination lawsuit.U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Apr 24 2019 // Medical marijuana sales in Arkansas are set to begin around May 12 as cultivators plan to begin harvesting the plant in the coming days and regulators finish the approval process for the state’s first...