Not all states roll out the same welcome mat for women. Where you live can affect your paycheck, access to healthcare, and even your safety on the streets. Some states make life a little easier for women; others...not so much. WalletHub ranked all 50 states and D.C. using key measures of women's quality of life to reveal which states lift ladies up -- and which hold them back. Here's a look at where exactly women are getting ahead, and where the odds are stacked against them. Life for women depends on more than luck: it depends on a state's jobs, care, and safety.

As the University of Arkansas at Little Rock prepares to reopen its newly renovated planetarium in fall 2026, excitement is building across campus for the return of a beloved landmark and the possibilities it represents for the future of science and community connection. Thanks to a $1.2 million gift from Leslye Shellam honoring her late father, Arkansas business leader L. Dickson Flake, the Shellam Flake Planetarium will soon reopen after nearly two decades. But for faculty and students, the reopening is about far more than renovation and technology upgrades.

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Contour Airlines is adding service between Dallas-Fort Worth and El Dorado, Arkansas. A regional airline is introducing nonstop service between Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and El Dorado, Arkansas, a business and leisure hub. Contour Airlines will offer two daily roundtrips and an additional roundtrip on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays between DFW and South Arkansas Regional Airport. According to a release, the service will start March 16. El Dorado, once an oil boomtown, is about 95 miles northeast of Shreveport, Louisiana.

As the University of Arkansas at Little Rock prepares to reopen its newly renovated planetarium in fall 2026, excitement is building across campus for the return of a beloved landmark and the possibilities it represents for the future of science and community connection. Thanks to a $1.2 million gift from Leslye Shellam honoring her late father, Arkansas business leader L. Dickson Flake, the Shellam Flake Planetarium will soon reopen after nearly two decades. But for faculty and students, the reopening is about far more than renovation and technology upgrades.

Contour Airlines is adding service between Dallas-Fort Worth and El Dorado, Arkansas. A regional airline is introducing nonstop service between Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and El Dorado, Arkansas, a business and leisure hub. Contour Airlines will offer two daily roundtrips and an additional roundtrip on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays between DFW and South Arkansas Regional Airport. According to a release, the service will start March 16. El Dorado, once an oil boomtown, is about 95 miles northeast of Shreveport, Louisiana.

More states are requiring their Medicaid programs and health insurance companies to cover non-opioid pain medications as an alternative to opioids, which can be cheaper for insurers but also more addictive for patients. Advocates, providers, medical associations and state lawmakers are pushing for parity in coverage.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico -- Fayetteville resident and artist Misha McQuillen Gardner will catch a flight to Houston on Wednesday after being trapped by cartel violence in the Pacific coast resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, since Sunday. Gardner's childhood friend and traveling companion on this trip, who asked not to be named, "got us rebooked to Houston TOMORROW," Gardner posted on social media. "I'll rent a car and drive home" from there, she said, although she is inclined to rest in Houston for the night first, according to her posts.

I have a number of friends who say they are willing to tolerate Donald Trump's obnoxious behavior in return for policies he's enacted that they agree with, thereby providing a fairly succinct definition of what has been called the "transactional" approach to politics. My response is to claim that character is ultimately more important than policy because policy can be changed (and likely will be, jarringly, by the next Democrat in the White House), whereas character, at least for Trump, at this late point, cannot. As such, I've always felt that character and the kind of integrity that goes w