by - May 20, 2025 7:51 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors voted Tuesday (May 20) to restrict tobacco and vape shops from opening within 500 feet of a school or daycare. The new ordinance does…
by - May 19, 2025 5:42 pm
Sebastian County Circuit Court Judge Dianna Hewitt Ladd has scheduled a hearing Thursday (May 22) that could provide some clarity about who knew what prior to the botched attempt by…
by - May 18, 2025 3:35 pm
Arkoma Mayor Joshua Johnson is pushing back against claims by City of Fort Smith officials that the town is unable to pay for water and sewer services. He alleges that…
by - May 16, 2025 1:16 pm
Four of the six largest job categories in the Fort Smith metro had year-over-year job gains in March, with the Education and Health Services category posting the most new jobs…
by - May 15, 2025 5:06 pm
Fort Smith attorney Joey McCutchen is seeking an expedited hearing in his Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the City of Fort Smith and Acting Fort Smith City Administrator Jeff…
by - May 15, 2025 12:46 pm
Fort Smith’s population in 2024 rose 0.7% compared with 2023, and is up 1.5% compared with 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Of Fort Smith metro cities in Arkansas…
by - May 14, 2025 12:11 pm
Acting Fort Smith City Administrator Jeff Dingman has decided on a “progressive discipline” action against Chief Human Resources Officer Rick Lolley, but fallout related to the attempt to hire an…
by - May 13, 2025 10:04 pm
Fort Smith voters on Tuesday (May 13) approved by a wide margin a sales tax reallocation plan to provide $360 million over 30 years to fund federally-mandated sewer system work….
by - May 12, 2025 3:04 pm
Work to complete new facilities at the foreign pilot training center at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith is set to receive $141 million following Congressional approval of…
by - May 12, 2025 12:25 pm
Tariffs implemented and proposed by the Trump Administration are a big part of why Arkansas River tonnage is down more than 15% in the first four months of 2025, according…
by - May 8, 2025 6:42 pm
The Crawford County Public Library System saga continues to be expensive for the county. A lawsuit may soon be filed that alleges the violation of a separation agreement with former…
by - May 6, 2025 8:37 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (May 6) voted unanimously to direct the city hold a sales tax election in 2030 to give voters a chance to reauthorize…
by - May 5, 2025 5:02 pm
The Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission hopes to have a director hired within six months, but a focus on finding “character and integrity” in a person to help lead the…
by - May 2, 2025 5:02 pm
Fort Smith may arguably be the third-largest city in Arkansas and center of the state’s third-largest metro area, but the Mercy Fort Smith hospital emergency room is the busiest in…
by - May 2, 2025 10:37 am
An income tax extension for those in storm-damaged areas and income tax payments made prior to April were primarily responsible for a 15.5% decline in Arkansas tax revenue in April….
by - May 2, 2025 10:04 am
“There’s no chance they’ll bring that mission to Fort Smith.” That was the first thought Col. Jay “Evil” Spohn had when asked to review sites for a planned new foreign…
by - May 1, 2025 11:08 am
An almost completed “solar garden” adjacent to the First National Bank of Fort Smith Phoenix bank branch in Fort Smith is also a pause point with just under $1 million…
by - April 30, 2025 2:47 pm
March traffic out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport was up slightly compared with March 2024, but traffic numbers for the first quarter of the year are down almost 2%…
by - April 29, 2025 10:11 pm
Despite a proposed resolution from the Fort Smith Board of Directors to revisit sales tax allocations for police funding and the street tax program, a group opposing the tax may…
by - April 29, 2025 9:02 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (April 29) did not fire Rick Lolley, the city’s human resources director. Lolley was on the hot seat following a failed attempt…
