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Prediction: Real Estate Market Will Remain Hot

Nicky Dou, 2014s top-ranked residential real estate agent according to the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, says construction is booming.

February Vote Looms For Proposed Wind Farm Property

Backlash can be attributed, in part, to reports that the Texas-based developers have checkered pasts.

Brightwater Culinary Inspired by European Public Markets

The recently rebranded Northwest Arkansas Community College culinary school will be another feather in downtown Bentonvilles hat.

Boston Mountain Biotech Awarded $225K NSF Grant

The Phase I National Science Foundation Grant will fund collaboration between the Fayetteville company and a research group at North Carolina State University.

Telecomp Buying Property, Opening New Office in Little Rock

The Bentonville-based infrastructure technology company is setting up shop on West Markham Street in downtown Little Rock.

UA Extension Service Hosting Conference on LID

The Low Impact Development conference is set for Jan. 21 at the Fayetteville Town Center.

Springdale Adopts Master Plan, Seven Years, $150M to Implement

If implemented to the fullest extent, it would result in a new City Hall, a reimagined Thompson Street and Emma Avenue, expanded Luther George Park and a new stock of urban housing.

UA Animal Science Professor Of Three Decades Dies at 81

Jack Perkins served on the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences for 30 years.

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When Zane Ludwick graduated from the University of Arkansas with a bachelor’s degree in finance, he already had five years’ worth of real-world banking experience under his belt. The early…

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