WASHINGTON — Three candidates are looking to represent Arkansas’ 1st District in Congress, which includes Jonesboro and the farming communities that make up the state’s eastern Delta region.

WASHINGTON — In what is shaping up to be one of the state’s most closely contested races in Arkansas, Democrat Patrick Hays and Republican J. French Hill are seeking election to Congress representing the state’s 2nd District that encompasses Little Rock and the suburbs around Pulaski County.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, says the United States should revise its country-of-origin labeling rule after the World Trade Organization ruled in favor of Canada and Mexico in an ongoing dispute over the requirement that grocery stores indicate the country, or countries, where meat was born, raised and slaughtered.

LITTLE ROCK — A former county and state election official and a political activist are challenging Arkansas’ incumbent secretary of state.

LITTLE ROCK — The major-party candidates for governor both said during a debate Monday they are open to amending a state law that requires mandatory consolidation or annexation of public school districts that fall below 350 students for two consecutive years.

CONWAY — Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson and Democratic candidate Mike Ross seized on things from each other’s backgrounds to criticize and called each other flip-floppers during a debate Thursday on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas.

LITTLE ROCK — Borrowing a line from former President Bill Clinton, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross said Wednesday that special interest groups want Arkansans to use their vote to protest against President Barack Obama.