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  • What Trump's Wall Means For Starr County, Texas
    President Trump is expected to accelerate the building of his border wall. In Starr County, Texas, they're about to build the longest stretch of new wall under Trump.
  • Fort Smith clinics, casino expansion, sales tax gains
    Michael Tilley covers a $140M Choctaw Casino expansion in Pocola, Baptist Health selling Fort Smith clinics, May sales tax gains and the city board's strategy session.
  • What Arkansas' four November ballot issues would actually do
    Kristin Netterstrom Higgins of the UofA Division of Agriculture Public Policy Center breaks down Issues 1 through 4: citizens only voting, gun rights, economic development districts, water bonds.
  • The giant white marble boulders that line the Agos River just north of the Philippine village of Daraitan are sacred to the Indigenous Dumagat people. They use the boulders to perform rituals to ward off sickness and keep their village safe. If the Kaliwa Dam is built upriver, the Dumagat say these rocks will be destroyed to make way for the increased water flow.
    The Philippines' capital is running out of water. Is building a dam the solution?
    Officials say the Kaliwa Dam will help alleviate an impending water shortage in the capital that's being exacerbated by climate change. But the project is plagued with controversies and questions.
  • Pocahontas Mayor Kary Story (left), Governor Asa Hutchinson (middle), and Director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management AJ Gary (right).
    Hutchinson Tours Flood Damage
    7 people in Arkansas are dead as a result of flooding in the state so far, and the worst of the flooding is yet to come. KASU’s Johnathan Reaves has...
  • Rescuers Prepare for a Wild Whitewater Season
    It was a record year for snow in many parts of the West -- and as summer approaches, that snowpack is melting fast. That's good news for whitewater rafters, but it can be deadly for casual swimmers. In California's Sierra Nevada, home to some of the fastest uncontrolled rivers in the West, national park rangers are training for a big water year.
  • Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Rediscovered in Arkansas
    Scientists say a rare ivory-billed woodpecker — thought to be extinct — has been found in a remote nature reserve in Arkansas. The sighting was kept secret for a year, in part to protect the habitat.
  • Pilgrims walk barefoot in the soft dust paths linking holy sites in and around the city of Vrindavan.
    Pilgrims on the Path of Krishna
    Framed by the stones of ancient temples and bathing pools, marching Hindu pilgrims chant praise to Krishna and his consort, Radha. They touch the holy water of the Yamuna River and walk barefoot down the same paths they believe Krishna himself once trod.
  • Bertha and Wilson Twitchell stand outside their home in Kasigluk, Alaska. Wilson grew up here. He drew an image of what the land looked like when he was young: Grass and dry land surrounded the house, stretching at least 80 feet to the riverbank, where he remembers playing with toy boats. Now, when the water is particularly high, the house is nearly an island.
    Thawing permafrost threatens Alaska's rural villages. And time is running out
    Climate change is threatening many Alaska Native villages. Advocates are calling for a major overhaul of federal policy.
  • Company combats carbon emissions with chicken litter
    Poultry is one of Arkansas' leading economic industries - it's also one of the biggest drivers of pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. One company in northwest Arkansas is trying to spin that chicken litter into carbon-negative gold
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