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.

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.

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

HII announced that Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800) was recently launched into the James River at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division. Shipbuilders transferred the ...

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.

North Little Rock, Ark. (KATV) — A new Urgent Care Walk-in Clinic for the Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System is set to open in June, and a celebratory ribbon cutting event took place ...

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.