Covering the business news of Arkansas

Arkansas’ Hillbilly Image Endures

Talk Business contributor Suzi Parker reports for Reuters on a new exhibit at the Old State House Museum that examines Arkansas' inferiority complex through the...

P.a.m. Transportation Restarts Stock Repurchase Program

Tilley: A Natural Gas Solution

Michael Tilley with our content partner, The City Wire, uses his weekly "Riff Raff" column to explore recent arguments that America could do much to...

Four Set For Induction In Business Hall Of Fame

Home Sales Continue To Spike In Key Central, Nw Arkansas Counties

We're always appreciative of Ethan Nobles at First Arkansas News for jumping on the central and northwest Arkansas local housing reports in advance of the...

Tourism On The Rise In Arkansas

Arkansas’ tourism tax collections through July are up 1.74% compared to the same period of 2010 and aren’t far behind 2008, the record year of...

Arkansas Income Up 4.8% In Second Quarter

Personal income in Arkansas during the second quarter of 2011 was $99.649 billion, up 4.82% compared to the second quarter of 2010 and up 1.32%...

Clean & Green: Get Your Move On By Going Green

Wal-mart To Broaden Its Solar Power Program

The world’s largest retailer announced Wednesday (Sept. 21) that it plans to install solar panels on 60 additional stores in California, which would place solar...

Arkansas Best Announces Management Changes

Wes Kemp, president and CEO of Fort Smith-based ABF Freight System, will retire Dec. 31, ending an almost 43-year career with the less-than-truckload operator that...

Northwest Arkansas ‘state Of The Region’ Report Released

Education attainment and university research funding were the weak areas in a Northwest Arkansas economy that continues to perform well despite state and national economic...

Tyson Foods Settles Wage Lawsuit For $32 Million

Officials Remember Late Economic Development Director

Arkansas economic leaders paid tribute to Maria Haley, Gov. Mike Beebe's director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission who died last week of a brain...

Manufacturing Jobs Reach State, National Lows

Siloam Springs Considering Cable Business Venture

The city of Siloam Springs is considering providing fiber-to-home internet, cable television and telephone services, which would put it in competition with private enterprises already...

Arkansas Jobless Rate Rises For Fourth Straight Month

Arkansas’ August unemployment rate rose to 8.3% - the fourth straight month of an increase and another 24-year high - as the number of those...

$161 Million In Misspent Unemployment Benefits Revealed (updated)

New data from the U.S. Department of Labor indicate that Arkansas apparently made $161 million in erroneous unemployment payments during a time when the state's...

Postal Service Eyeing Consolidations To Little Rock

A U.S. Postal Service proposal that would essentially move all mail processing in Arkansas to Little Rock would result in lengthier mail delivery times and...

Jeff Nichols Latest Film To Get Advance Screening In Lr

Rising filmmaker Jeff Nichols, a Little Rock native who will film a major motion picture in Arkansas later this year, will have an advance private...

Whirlpool Jobs Could Drop By January

The news continues to be less than optimistic about the future of Whirlpool’s massive production and warehousing facility in Fort Smith, with a source saying...