by - January 11, 2017 12:30 pm
Much of the trucking industry has been riding a wave of Donald Trump euphoria since the Nov. 8 election, but that’s starting to hit reality as analysts downgrade stock ratings…
by - January 10, 2017 1:27 pm
Nonresidential construction jumped nearly 5% in November as construction unemployment rates fell in 38 states across the nation, including Arkansas, according to Associated Builders and Contractors. Nationwide, nonresidential spending rose…
by - January 9, 2017 4:39 pm
A 53,453-square-foot Holiday Inn Express is under construction on 2 acres in the 2100 block of U.S. Highway 412 in Siloam Springs. The 80-room, four-story hotel is being built with…
by - January 5, 2017 1:27 pm
The outlook for the trucking industry is improving, but some headwinds remain just two weeks before J.B. Hunt Transport Services is slated to release fourth-quarter earnings, analysts said. Lowell-based carrier…
by - January 3, 2017 4:37 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services wants a third-party review of how revenue is shared between it and BNSF Railway with regard to their joint service agreement and the carrier’s intermodal segment,…
by - December 22, 2016 11:04 am
Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville is building a 20-bed rehabilitation center, allowing veterans to live onsite while undergoing substance abuse treatment. The $9.9 million project to…
by - December 19, 2016 4:50 pm
Real estate agent Philip Taldo of Springdale will join the Arkansas Highway Commission in January. Taldo, broker and co-owner of Griffin Realtors Commercial Division and Weichert Griffin Realtors, will serve a 10-year term.
by - December 19, 2016 2:26 pm
Real estate agent Philip Taldo of Springdale will join the Arkansas Highway Commission in January. Taldo, broker and co-owner of Griffin Realtors Commercial Division and Weichert Griffin Realtors, will serve…
by - December 19, 2016 12:00 am
The $9.9 million Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks project is expected to be completed in the summer or fall 2017.
by - December 6, 2016 8:47 am
A proposed federal rule requiring entry-level semitrailer drivers to complete a specific number of training hours is strongly supported by the owner of a driving school in Springdale. “My emotions…
by - December 5, 2016 12:00 am
Tracey Eaves, partner of American Business Appraisers, moved back to New Mexico in 2013, after living in Fayetteville for about 10 years.
by - December 5, 2016 12:00 am
The Springdale-based transit company is paying $225,000 for the vehicles through a lease-to-own program of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department.
by - December 5, 2016 12:00 am
A $450,000 project will add about 2,400 square feet to the Springdale store, adding storage and accommodating growth of the womens bicycle line, Liv.
by - December 3, 2016 3:01 pm
A panel of women working in information technology for Acxiom, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Tyson Foods and Wal-Mart Stores took questions from about 150 young women who are students from…
by - December 2, 2016 4:32 pm
Trucking organizations and executives strongly support a new federal rule creating a national database of drug and alcohol test results for commercial truck drivers. On Friday (Dec. 2), the Federal…
by - December 1, 2016 3:27 pm
A cyber security company that developed an anti-hacking tool tried to give it to the state, which in part had supported the company’s startup, but was unsuccessful. Fayetteville-based Neo Cyber…
by - November 23, 2016 1:04 pm
Dodd-Frank was signed into law in July 2010 and was designed to be a response to the near financial meltdown of 2008 in which several large banks failed.
by - November 23, 2016 10:44 am
Arkansas bank executives agreed with former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., about this: the bank regulation bill that bears his name should have been more lenient on smaller banks. In a…
by - November 22, 2016 2:41 pm
The Women and Infants Center at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville opened Nov. 14. The $60 million project added a five-story, 132,800-square-foot patient tower to the existing hospital campus,…
by - November 22, 2016 2:10 pm
Mark Gaston Pearce, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, spoke recently in Fayetteville about how the federal agency has adapted to change in its 81-year history of enforcing the…
