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This day celebrates the historic, cultural, and contemporary significance and contributions of Nebraska’s First Peoples. A dedication event will recognize Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American physician in the United States.

The University of Arkansas blackberry breeding program has released multiple award-winning blackberry varieties.

Those who enjoyed his photos of birds, butterflies, wildflowers and other native plants and animals will greatly miss the results of the "daily rounds" of local photographer and conservationist Terry Stanfill. Stanfill, 67, died early Saturday morning after a battle with pulmonary fibrosis.

JACK SCHNEDLER

In T.S. Eliot's iconic poem "The Waste Land," April is the cruelest month. In Arkansas, even with the balm of air conditioning, the cruelest month is often August. Our summer's fiery furnace keeps pumping out the heat, while cooler autumn weather seems a distant fantasy.

Horsemen seek volunteers, tools

The square in downtown Jasper is hopping on this Saturday afternoon. Bubba's Buffalo River Store is filled with visitors.

Harvard returning Standing Bear’s tomahawk to Nebraska tribe That’s a piece of our history that represents who we are and why we’re here in Nebraska, so for it to be back home is very appropriate Author: Philip Marcelo Associated Press BOSTON — A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native civil rights leader, is returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard. The university’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology says it’s been...