Coronavirus
Friday's rolling seven-day average of new polymerase chain reaction-confirmed cases in Garland County remained below three for the ninth-straight day, and fo...
by David Showers - April 10, 2021Seventeen percent of Garland County's population was fully vaccinated as of March 26, according to the report the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences...
April 9, 2021The lifting of public health directives before most Arkansans have been fully vaccinated is tempting fate, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fa...
April 8, 2021Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said almost 80% of all vaccines administered in Arkansas have gone to white Arkansans, which make up about 80% of the state's po...
April 7, 2021Any Arkansan aged 16 and older is eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and Garland County is in desperate need of more people to sign up for immunizatio...
by Cassidy Kendall - April 3, 2021The 485 polymerase chain reaction and antigen test reports added to Garland County's testing total Thursday were the most since March 4.
April 2, 2021National Park College announced plans Wednesday to hold its spring commencement in-person at Bank OZK Arena in May and to fully open its campus for the fall ...
by John Anderson - April 2, 2021The city of Hot Springs Intracity Transit bus system is offering free rides to vaccination appointments, effective today, the city said Wednesday in a news r...
April 1, 2021The month of March marks one year since schools in Garland County had to pivot to virtual learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
by John Anderson - March 31, 2021Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said "common sense" will govern the decision to wear a mask in Arkansas, shifting the onus from the mandate he imposed through e...
by David Showers - March 31, 2021The task force organizing the local response to the pandemic wants to increase Garland County's vaccination rate from the 14% of county residents who are ful...
March 30, 2021GENEVA -- A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another an...
by The Associated Press - March 30, 2021With state and national focus shifting from testing to vaccinating, the transmission of the virus isn't being tracked as closely as it was earlier in the pan...
March 27, 2021Gov. Asa Hutchinson said the state has administered 1 million vaccine doses, moving it closer to meeting his goal of 1.1 million shots by the end of the month.
March 24, 2021Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed an executive order Friday extending the filing and payment deadline for individual state income taxes from April 15 to May 17.
March 20, 2021