K8 News is taking a look at the history of Arkansas on the road to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States of America.

Bacon served for more than a decade as the director of the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs.

An 83-year-old Army veteran in Georgia received the keys to a new home Thursday after he lost his house of 50 years to Hurricane Helene.

The competition, which has become a national and international event, is now held every Thanksgiving weekend in Stuttgart.

Alexander has been called “the father of Arkansas conservation.”

The rectangular, single-story wood-frame building is an excellent example of a vernacular interpretation of Gothic Revival style.

The Young Memorial, is the most elaborate of the World War I memorials located in Arkansas.

After attempting to clear communication lines in Missouri, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Thilenius of the Fifty-Sixth Regiment of Enrolled Missouri Militia led a raid into Arkansas to catch Confederate Colonel Timothy Reeves at Cherokee Bay.

Cornish founded the Arkansas birth control movement that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Association of Arkansas.

Thousands attended the rain-soaked ceremony.