by - August 24, 2017 12:22 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Jeremy King will be a keynote speaker at the Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit on Oct. 17 at the John Q. Hammons…
by - August 23, 2017 10:07 am
Editor’s note: Updated with many additions throughout the story. –––––––––––––––––––– The Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation of Bentonville will donate $120 million toward growing the University of Arkansas’ art department…
by - August 21, 2017 3:11 pm
Artists from throughout the world, including two from Northwest Arkansas, will install public art pieces this week (Aug. 21-25) in downtown Fayetteville for the Green Candy project — although some…
by - August 17, 2017 11:49 am
Springdale’s long-awaited Turnbow Park and the related unearthing of Spring Creek downtown has for years been promoted by city officials and business leaders as a key piece of the puzzle…
by - August 15, 2017 7:08 am
The first floor of Kimpel Hall will look dramatically different to University of Arkansas students returning from summer break this fall, and it’s only the beginning of changes to the…
by - August 11, 2017 5:27 pm
Everyone, on some level, is an entrepreneur. That’s what entrepreneur and startup investor Steve Clark told a group of young professionals at a summit on Friday (Aug. 8) at the…
by - August 10, 2017 9:17 pm
A group of local and international artists have been selected to create individual works of art for Fayetteville’s upcoming public art project, “Green Candy,” the city’s tourism bureau Experience Fayetteville…
by - August 9, 2017 12:30 pm
El Dorado Festivals & Events Inc. has waged a big bet that the Murphy Arts District, or MAD, will make the southern Arkansas town a tourist hotspot for visitors statewide…
by - August 8, 2017 4:40 pm
Arkansas Tourism Director Joe David Rice has compared Arkansas to a 58,000-square-mile theme park. Adding “new rides” each year is the key to continually drawing in visitors, he said. In…
by - August 8, 2017 10:50 am
Historic theaters as anchors for cultural hubs and downtown arts districts will be a topic of conversation at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute’s Historic Theaters Conference this week, Thursday (Aug. 10)…
by - August 7, 2017 10:31 am
The Arkansas Health Department has created an online portal for food safety inspection data for the estimated 15,000 retail food establishments. After about a two-year process of transitioning from a…
by - July 31, 2017 12:54 pm
Downtown neighborhoods in Northwest Arkansas have increasingly become centers for businesses and activities related to holistic health and exercise. Downtown Bentonville, for example, has a number of businesses that focus…
by - July 31, 2017 11:52 am
Nationwide, the hotel industry showed record-setting occupancy rates in June, according to the industry statistics resource STR. The same cannot be said for the Northwest Arkansas, Jonesboro, Fort Smith and…
by - July 26, 2017 4:52 pm
The busiest airport in Arkansas also had the cheapest average fare for domestic flights in the first quarter of 2017, according to data released Tuesday (July 25) from the U.S….
by - July 24, 2017 1:57 pm
Education Week published in June a report that says technology is flooding into K-12 classrooms, but many teachers don’t have the adequate training to integrate it into instruction. The magazine’s…
by - July 21, 2017 11:05 am
Earlier this year, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal used input from informed observers of the area’s startup scene to tag several startup industries as areas of projected growth and development…
by - July 19, 2017 11:05 am
The Little Rock School District this fall will launch a new career-learning program for high school students. The Excel program, which has tapped into the national Centers for Advanced Professional…
by - July 13, 2017 6:24 pm
When the Don Tyson School of Innovation in Springdale reopens its doors this fall, it will begin its fourth school year with almost 800 students, grades 7-11. It is launching…
by - July 13, 2017 2:50 pm
The Apollo on Emma event venue has planned a grand opening for Aug. 17. A charity gala is scheduled from 6-9 p.m. Proceeds will be donated to the Springdale Public…
by - July 10, 2017 5:26 pm
Northwest Arkansas’ nonprofit arts and cultural events generated an estimated $131.2 million in economic activity in 2015, according to a new report from Americans for the Arts of Washington, D.C….
