Arkansas

As Oklahoma colleges struggle to maintain enrollment, they’re increasingly turning to other places to recruit new students.

The Cherokee Nation signed the region’s first agreement between a Tribal Nation and The National Park Service to protect the medicinal plants in Buffalo National River Park. A tribal executive order will also make land in Adair County serve as the Cherokee Nation Medicine Keepers Preserve.

One of Arkansas’ top politicians relies on unpaid workers from a local drug rehabilitation center at his plastics company, which makes dock floats sold at…