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Pine Bluff officials learned Thursday that the city will receive $32 million of the $96 million allocated to Arkansas from the $918 million provided in the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for watershed projects. The announcement came from Terry Crosby, chief of the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Local leaders and state legislators celebrated a big investment in the technological future of Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, one they believe will lead to educational and entrepreneurial growth locally.

Since 2016, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's "Keeping It in the Family" program has worked to address historic barriers to African American success in forestry.

Since 2016, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's "Keeping It in the Family" program has worked to address historic barriers to African American success in forestry.

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Voting in Arkansas is not only polarized along party lines but has long been polarized along racial lines, according to one expert who testified Wednesday in federal court in the lawsuit over the state's new legislative boundaries.

Voting in Arkansas is not only polarized along party lines but has long been polarized along racial lines, according to one expert who testified Wednesday in federal court in the lawsuit over the state's new legislative boundaries.