AAC Annual Conference | Association of Arkansas Counties

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that Arkansas is providing $60 million to address water infrastructure needs across the state. This federal funding includes $55 million to address water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects and $5 million for the Arkansas Rural Water Association to assist water and wastewater systems across the state.

Gov. Sarah Sanders recently announced several appointments including naming individuals to three justice of the peace seats.

Arkansas has ended its fiscal year with a $698.4 million surplus, state finance officials announced Tuesday

Operation Green Light is an initiative led by NACo and the National Association of County Veterans Service Officers to honor our nation's veterans and to raise awareness of the role that counties play in providing vital services to veterans.

Dallas County Sheriff Mike Knoedl and the Fordyce Police Department have been working non-stop to make sure the town recovers after a deadly mass shooting on June 21. In the wake of this tragic shooting, they have one message to tell people about the small but mighty town. "This will not define us and it will not divide us," Knoedl said.

Attorney General Tim Griffin has filed a lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) Optum, Inc., and Express Scripts, Inc., and their subsidiaries for "their roles as a cause of the opioid epidemic in Arkansas."

Three large-scale Arkansas projects will receive part of a $1.8 billion in federal infrastructure grant program announced Wednesday.

Although the Arkansas General Assembly met for the first time in January 2023, a select set of bills passed were set to begin going into effect on July 1, 2024.

Arkansas’ 45 drug courts received $1 million in opioid settlement funding to support program participants’ various needs as part of ongoing efforts to address the nation’s opioid epidemic.