by - January 4, 2023 10:14 am
If the economy is slowing, no one told Arkansas businesses and consumers. In the December report, fiscal year-to-date Arkansas tax revenue totaled $4.145 billion, up 6.4% compared with the same…
by - December 27, 2022 5:03 pm
Peggy Watson was the Sebastian County Circuit Clerk when Cindy Gilmer began working in the office. Gilmer, then a recent Ouachita Baptist University gradate, began her public career handling child…
by - December 25, 2022 8:41 am
If the path to the heart is through the stomach, stuffing might have Mervin Jebaraj’s heart. And sweet potato pie. “Stuffing. That’s the best part of Thanksgiving,” Jebaraj noted when…
by - December 20, 2022 2:07 pm
Arkansas had 74 work-related fatalities in 2021, or one death every 4.9 days. According to state and federal data, the 74 deaths is a 15.6% increase from 64 deaths in…
by - December 19, 2022 1:31 pm
The final meeting of the U.S. House committee investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol unanimously delivered four criminal referrals of former President Donald Trump based on…
by - December 17, 2022 9:50 am
Dr. Seidensticker, a college professor, made me a cassette tape of recordings of music by composers Haydn, Stravinsky, Wagner, and others, although he said Wagner could be tough to follow…
by - December 16, 2022 10:44 am
After reaching a recent low of 3.1% in February, Arkansas’ jobless rate moved higher during the year and reached 3.7% in November, which was higher than the 3.3% in November…
by - December 15, 2022 8:48 am
Commercial tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River through November totaled 10.124 million tons, up 2.7%, with outbound and internal shipments driving the growth, according to figures from the U.S. Corps…
by - December 8, 2022 7:33 pm
A $5 million sale of 16 residential parcels along Houston and South Houston streets in east Fort Smith and a self storage unit ownership change were the top Sebastian County…
by - December 6, 2022 3:53 pm
The Fort Smith metro area had 3,309 homes sales in the January-October period, down 10.4% from 3,692 during the same period in 2021, a clear sign that rising interest rates…
by - December 2, 2022 10:55 am
Continued “high growth” in sales tax revenue helped push Arkansas’ fiscal year-to-date (July-November) tax collections to $2.971 billion, up 5.6% compared with the same period in 2021. The revenue is…
by - November 28, 2022 3:01 pm
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission (MMC) Director Doralee Chandler has revoked the cultivation license of Fort Smith-based River Valley Relief (RVR). Her action was procedural and followed a Nov. 3 court…
by - November 21, 2022 4:37 pm
The future of 75 jobs and an $8 million marijuana cultivation center in Fort Smith was the focus of continued legal filings in the Pulaski County Circuit Court, with attorneys…
by - November 16, 2022 6:25 pm
Officials with Mercy Fort Smith and Fort Smith Mayor George McGill gathered on a cold Wednesday (Nov. 16) to break ground on a $3.6 million primary care clinic at 4600…
by - November 15, 2022 9:11 pm
As expected, former President Donald Trump on Tuesday (No. 15) announced he will seek the GOP nomination for U.S. president in 2024. The move, which was not welcome among a…
by - November 14, 2022 5:00 pm
The state’s 2% tourism tax and tourism and travel industry jobs are setting new records in the first eight months of 2022, showing that the industry is recovering and growing…
by - November 13, 2022 9:57 am
The answer to a question in 2013 over bourbon pecan pie at Hardscrabble Country Club in Fort Smith helped plant an idea. It would be one of five parts of…
by - November 10, 2022 11:01 am
A $20.387 million sale of the new Veterans Affairs Clinic in Fort Smith and property is the largest Sebastian County property deal so far in 2022, according to info from…
by - November 8, 2022 9:36 pm
Rep. Justin Boyd will end his fourth term in the Arkansas House of Representatives by moving to the other end of the Capitol to represent much of Fort Smith as…
by - November 4, 2022 1:42 pm
The future of the River Valley Relief (RVR) marijuana cultivation center in Fort Smith is uncertain following a Pulaski County Circuit Court ruling Thursday (Nov. 3) that said state officials…
