by - August 9, 2023 3:57 pm
Editor’s note: The State of the State series provides reports twice a year on Arkansas’ key economic sectors. The series publishes stories to begin a year and stories in July/August…
by - August 7, 2023 6:36 pm
Work on the proposed $50 million Jonesboro Sport Complex has been slow to start. One critical decision that will have to be made in the near future is how the…
by - August 7, 2023 11:57 am
A $1.2 million grant from the Arkansas Office of Skills Development (OSD) to Arkansas Northeastern College (ANC) will help create the Arkansas Steelmaking Bootcamp. The bootcamp, a job skills initiative…
by - August 5, 2023 8:01 pm
When Greenway Equipment CEO Marshall Stewart began working for the company more than 25 years ago, the agriculture industry was very different. By far the biggest change has been the…
by - August 2, 2023 12:50 pm
A newly formed company, Hybar, has started construction on its scrap metal recycling steel rebar mill project. The mill is being built on a 1,300-acre site in Osceola. The $700…
by - August 2, 2023 12:38 pm
A ban on white, non-basmati rice exports by India could bolster prices for American rice farmers, said Alvaro Durand-Morat, associate professor and agricultural economist for the University of Arkansas System…
by - July 31, 2023 10:56 am
The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved Arkansas State University’s outline for its College of Veterinary Medicine, including the potential for 40 new faculty and staff positions dedicated to…
by - July 27, 2023 2:04 pm
Entrepreneur Ti King wanted to organize a festival to recognize, educate and grow the podcast community in Arkansas. He wanted to model it after RTX Austin, a gaming and internet…
by - July 26, 2023 12:00 pm
Jonesboro continues to collect sales and use tax at record rates each month, but those collections are underperforming the budgeted expectations for the year to date. The city tallied $2.160…
by - July 25, 2023 12:00 pm
Researchers with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture are conducting research examining soil health practices and their impacts on crop risk insurance premiums and other financial factors often…
by - July 24, 2023 5:17 pm
Progress is slowly being made on a number of road construction projects throughout Northeast Arkansas, and several new ones are slated to begin, Arkansas Highway Commission Chairman Alec Farmer told…
by - July 20, 2023 1:42 pm
U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, spent four years as an Army bomb tech and he’s one of the many soldiers that served during the Cold War between the United States…
by - July 19, 2023 11:52 am
Perpetual rains this summer have kept the Arkansas Delta away from the drought conditions that plagued farmers last year. The extra moisture does cause some other problems, however. Specialists with…
by - July 18, 2023 11:02 am
Progress on the proposed $50 million Jonesboro Sports Complex has been slower than anticipated, but Steering Committee Chairman Kevin Hodges thinks construction could begin before the end of the year….
by - July 17, 2023 11:52 am
Volatile fertilizer prices impacted all manner of farm operations in 2022, and the effects have continued into 2023 even as prices have eased. Pasture grasses, typically used to feed livestock…
by - July 16, 2023 7:42 am
Since Joey Thomas was a child he has loved to write. The Grubbs native liked to write poems, short stories and when he became a musician he even dabbled in…
by - July 13, 2023 9:19 am
About a month ago, the city of Jonesboro was offered an unexpected opportunity. USA Track and Field Region 9 was slated to have its Junior Olympic Championships at a facility…
by - July 12, 2023 8:30 pm
When Gary Harpole was first elected to the Jonesboro City Council in 1992, there were many unique problems facing the city but none bigger than chronic traffic problems, he told…
by - July 11, 2023 9:42 am
The recent legislative session was dominated by social and political issues that ranged from transgender rights to the banning of certain books in libraries across the state. The most significant…
by - July 10, 2023 1:41 pm
Despite myriad forces facing rice farmers in 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) now projects that about 1.311 million acres of the crop have been…
