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We are less than a week from the start of the 2025 Arkansas legislative session beginning, and for some, this may be your first time paying close attention to state politics. Ozarks at Large's Matthew Moore spoke with Gail Choate, the executive director of Arkansas Civic Action Network. The nonpartisan group is hosting a handful of civic engagement workshops this winter in downtown Little Rock they’re calling Arkansans in Action.

This week’s episode of the I Am Northwest Arkansas podcast sheds light on the entrepreneurial spirit of Elizabeth Prenger. She co-founded Femme Health Founders, a group supporting femtech startups. She’s also the founder of Assicle, a product designed to aid postpartum recovery. In this excerpt from the episode, host Randy Wilburn asked Elizabeth Prenger about the development of the product.

Karen Baker was sworn in earlier this month as the chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, but drama around personnel and Freedom of Information Act requests have led to power struggles.

On today's show, we learn how to improve our civic education and why it's important, even though it's not an election year. Plus, six years of opening up a microphone to any performer. Also, we find out what a music census of northwest Arkansas can tell us.

Freezing winds are sweeping over the state, and community members in our region are organizing to support unsheltered populations. Sophia Nourani speaks with the Fayetteville C.R.E.W, or Collaborative Response for Extreme Weather, about safety measures being taken in the city of Fayetteville to protect unhoused citizens.

Becca Martin-Brown returns to discuss modern events with a deeper history with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams. This week, they speak with Dave Johnson and Gary Guinn about Johnson's book "Midwatch in Verse," plus what the two have in store for the coming months.

The music scene in northwest Arkansas ebbs and flows. The Music Census report from CACHE, a northwest Arkansas-based arts agency, indicates a strong desire for live music in the region.

In the final episode of 'Ozarks ri-Ṃajeļ,' we explore the ancient roots of Marshall Islanders, pre-colonization.

My Open Mic, the longest-running open mic in the Fayetteville Entertainment District, is about to celebrate six years of letting anybody with a voice get in front of their microphones. On Jan. 19, My Open Mic will host a sixth-anniversary show, and we asked the event’s showrunners, Jen Cole and Lisa Stuart, about that show and about the previous six years.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is almost done with a multi-year research project looking at the spread of chronic wasting disease among the state's deer population.