- Project News
Recent Project news:
- {{WikiProject Arkansas}} has been updated and revised. Making many new parameters that can be added, without effecting already tagged articles.
- The project has a new GA: Gazette Building, thanks to User:Broooooooce.
- Portal:Arkansas is still being expanded, and is starting to look rather nice. Help out by suggesting changes on the talk page.
- The project is currently in the process of reassessing a bunch of articles already tagged as Start-Class, to C-Class. Please help out!
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- Featured article
Featured Arkansas article of the month:
- Monte Ne is an area in the Ozark hills of the White River valley east of Rogers on the edge of Beaver Lake in the U.S. State of Arkansas. From 1901 until the mid-1930s the area was a health resort and ambitious planned community. It was owned and operated by William Hope Harvey, a financial theorist and one time U.S. Presidential nominee. Two of its hotels, "Missouri Row" and "Oklahoma Row", were the largest log buildings in the world. Oklahoma Row's "tower section" is one of the earliest examples of a multi-story cement structure. The tower is the only structure of Monte Ne still standing. Monte Ne introduced the first indoor swimming pool in Arkansas, and was also the site of the only presidential convention ever held in Arkansas. (more...)
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- State News
Recent state news:
- Suspect in eight murders arrested in Illinois, United States:
- Following a manhunt in two states, police have arrested Nicholas Troy Sheley whom authorities suspect in eight murders in the United States. The FBI launched the manhunt on Tuesday after four victims were discovered on June 30, 2008.
- Tornadoes in central US kill nearly two dozen people
- At least 23 people have been killed in late afternoon in broad daylight, with dark (very dark) clouds tornadoes that ripped through the central United States on Saturday May 10 with over 150 reported injured and at least three people are missing.
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