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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has removed LeFlore County in Oklahoma from the Fort Smith Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which technically reduces the region’s workforce size by almost…
by - March 13, 2025 7:18 pm
Tempe, Ariz.-based Academies of Math & Science (AMS) has applied to open public enrollment charter schools in Fort Smith and Jonesboro. The Fort Smith campus for kindergarten through eighth grade…
by - March 11, 2025 5:46 pm
The Arkansas National Guard will on Thursday (March 13) ceremonially mark the start of construction on a new headquarters at Fort Chaffee for the 142nd Field Artillery Brigade, which is…
by - March 5, 2025 4:03 pm
Two members of Arkansas’ Congressional delegation are not concerned about the future of a foreign pilot training center in Fort Smith, even with U.S.-NATO relations in new and uncertain territory,…
by - March 5, 2025 3:15 pm
More than 50 people gathered Wednesday (March 5) in cold and windy conditions to ceremonially break ground on the 2025 showcase home that is part of a promotion effort of…
by - March 3, 2025 6:30 pm
The cost of the proposed 3,000-bed state prison in Franklin County is now estimated at $825 million, more than double the approximate $405 million state officials said it would cost…
by - February 26, 2025 12:58 pm
There will be no tax increase on the shot of whiskey you may consume in a Fort Smith sports bar and restaurant to celebrate a Razorback victory or, more likely,…
by - February 24, 2025 11:07 am
Fort Smith metro apartment property, commercial property, and land sales in 2024 are significantly below post pandemic levels, but apartment and land sales recovered slightly from 2023 lows. The region…
by - February 21, 2025 7:36 pm
The May 13 election will include for Fort Smith residents a ballot item to change the city’s sales tax uses to pay for $385 million in bonds to meet a…
by - February 19, 2025 5:07 pm
The Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus has 31 students on track to graduate in May from the nursing program, above 23 in May 2024. Students in the program have also posted…
by - February 19, 2025 2:20 pm
At 15.5%, Benton County had the largest average weekly percentage wage growth in the third quarter of 2024 among the 369 “largest” U.S. counties, according to a report posted Wednesday…
by - February 18, 2025 10:05 am
Most key factors of economic activity in the U.S. and Arkansas economies are expected to moderate in 2025 compared with 2024 and 2023 trends. The broader U.S. economy is expected…
by - February 18, 2025 8:49 am
Fort Smith metro home sales were up almost 7% in 2024 thanks in large part to gains in Crawford County. The 2024 increase is a recovery from an almost 15%…
by - February 14, 2025 11:10 am
The Fort Smith metro ended 2024 with a lower jobless rate and a net job gain of 1.3% compared with December 2023. The education and health services, manufacturing, and tourism…
by - February 13, 2025 4:36 pm
The Cherokee Nation on Thursday (Feb. 13) announced an $8 million contribution to Mercy-Fort Smith for its planned cancer center. The hospital system has been relatively quiet about the planned…
by - February 13, 2025 10:46 am
Energy and workforce availability, higher costs, and global uncertainty primarily related to tariffs and trade wars are on the minds of U.S. and Arkansas manufacturing industry executives as they navigate…
by - February 12, 2025 2:59 pm
There is some hope by Fort Smith officials that a new president in the White House or different agency oversight could give the city more flexibility with a federal consent…
by - February 12, 2025 11:35 am
December jobless rates were lower or unchanged in most Arkansas metro areas compared with December 2023, and all of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas had year-over-year…
by - February 11, 2025 10:14 pm
Fort Smith City Director Kevin Settle on Tuesday (Feb. 11) proposed increasing the city’s sales tax by 0.375% to pay for mandated consent decree work rather than use almost 40%…
by - February 11, 2025 5:54 pm
The City of Fort Smith may soon acknowledge through a negotiated court order that it engaged in inappropriate spending with area nonprofit groups, and promise that all future spending will…
