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.
Bill Parry, from the cast of Memphis, talks to us about the musical, life on the road and the changes theater has had in the past couple of decades. Memphis is at Walton Arts Center through the weekend.
"Big Love" performed by Will Mann, from the Memphis soundtrack
The Valley of the Vapors music festival turns Hot Springs into a hotbed of DIY and experimental music each March. There's a new documentary film out about the fest making its Northwest Arkansas debut at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville this Saturday. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen has more.
The Arkansas Legislature considers a ban on the parental rights of convicted rapists, as well as a bill barring school districts from considering home school students as public school students. Plus, University of Arkansas chancellor G. David Gearhart calls for an independent audit of the university's advancement division.
"We Will Become Silhouettes (Matthew Dear's Not Scared Mix)" by The Postal Service
In reaction to the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school massacre, Arkansas schools continue to bolster security—from hiring armed guards to installing heavy surveillance. We check districts around the region, talk with school security experts, look at current state legislation, and hear from former U.S. Congressman Asa Hutchinson on the status of his National School Shield Emergency Response Program, commissioned by the National Rifle Association.
We talk to an expert who has studied norovirus for 10 years about the symptoms and conditions to lead to its exposure to humans.
