A few items for Tuesday's news roundup: Arkansas' GDP is up, gas prices are up and Razorback baseball is up too. The team will be hosting a regional tournament this weekend.
The Illinois River Watershed Partnership has secured a federal climate grant to restore more than 500 acres of prairie, wetlands and river cane at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park, returning the landscape to its pre-settlement ecology.
A new initiative at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is working to make sure emergency rooms across the state are better prepared for post-partum care.
Photographer Brett Pitts reflects on housing insecurity, community and film photography in his project “Home,” documenting Fayetteville’s unhoused neighbors as part of The Medium’s Creative Exchange Fund.