The Arkansas is the 27th in a series of Virginia-class submarines and the 13th built at Newport News, a massive shipyard owned by Huntington Ingalls Industries.

The future USS Arkansas will be the 27th Virginia-class submarine and the fifth naval vessel to carry the name Arkansas.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — If you are driving around downtown Little Rock you might notice something different. Lights are on at the old VA hospital as there new apartments being built there.

Until this morning, I was unaware that Little Rock's baseball team uses the hashtag #HoldTheRope, you know, the same slogan that West Virginia head football coach Rich Rodriguez has had for a ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — With a solid swing from living history, the latest naval vessel to bear the name of Arkansas was officially christened Saturday on a sunny but cold Virginia morning.

HII launched the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas into the James River for completion and testing. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A 56-year-old man was hit and killed while crossing Broad Rock Boulevard in South Richmond Sunday night.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Muslim inmate who won a U.S. Supreme Court case upholding his right to grow a beard for religious reasons said in a lawsuit that Arkansas officials transferred him to a ...

Carlotta Walls LaNier, one the nine Black students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, launched a bottle of sparkling wine into the hull of the Virginia-class submarine at ...

HII, the largest shipbuilder in the U.S., revealed on Wednesday, July 2, that Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800) was ...

Coincidence? Probably. I did a little digging to see if I could find any sort of connection with Little Rock staffers and West Virginia, and came up with nothing.