Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, hiking tips for a novice and Springfest returns to Fayetteville. Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, hiking tips for a novice and Springfest returns to Fayetteville. Spring makes the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains pop. We get tips about how and where to hike.
A new study shows Benton and Washington counties are the two healthiest in the state. Plus the Arkansas Legislature gets closer to a Medicaid proposal.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what goes into a TED talk. Also, musicians from the band Cutty Rye discuss and perform songs from their upcoming album. 
Daniel Hintz from Downtown Bentonville Inc., discusses the Bentonville running series and other opportunities to get outside. 
Roby Brock with our content partner Talk Business Arkansas discusses yesterday's vote on the Voter ID bill and what's next for the Arkansas Legislature. The Senate passes Voter ID bill and legislators hear more about Medicaid's future in Arkansas.
Ahead on Ozarks: Gubernatorial candidate Bill Halter sits down for a conversation, pondering the hows and whys of a sinkhole in Benton County and the band Water Liars play a pair of songs inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
The Oxford, MS duo of Justin (Pete) Kinkel-Schuster, guitar/lead vocals, and Andrew Bryant percussion, piano, vocals, just released a new album called "Wyoming" on Fat Possum's Big Legal Mess label. They played a show Mar. 9 at Nightbird Books and stopped by to play some songs in the Firmin-Garner Performance studio prior to the night's show.
To hear the musicians discuss why they love the poet Frank Stanford, check out this audio extra.
Last week, Mercy Northwest Arkansas unveiled its new EC130 helicopter named Spirit of Mercy.
For video of what it's like to ride in the Spirit of Mercy, click here.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks at Large, we'll get ready for a trapeze-flying, steampunk circus in Alma, and we'll find out how the state is preparing for a voter ID law enacted by the Arkansas Legislature earlier this year.
Mike Ross and Bill Halter talk Medicaid at the Delta Grassroots Conference, as does Governor Mike Beebe, but Beebe also vaunts work by the state's Department of Higher Education in getting more students into college. And Hillcrest Towers in Fayetteville will be getting a facelift after receiving a sizable federal grant.
"West End Avenue Blues" by Ralph Sutton
The University of Arkansas’ Community Design Center last week received a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The center aims to use the money to sculpt the future of downtown Fayetteville.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas has updates on new earnings reports, state revenues, and more.
"Wagon Wheel" by Old Crow Medicine Show
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers reminds us that auditions at Rogers Little Theater and at the Arts Center of the Ozarks are happening this week.
As children, we learn you can know the age of a tree if you count the rings inside its trunk. What we might not learn is that those tree rings contain the history of each of those years.
