by - April 30, 2024 5:24 pm
The foreign military pilot training center in Fort Smith has yet to become operational or even see its first jet find a home in a hangar, but the number of…
by - April 28, 2024 4:28 pm
More than 11 years ago this fella told me about a new Fort Smith-based organization of which he was certain would do great and transformative things. One of the few…
by - April 25, 2024 10:15 am
Fort Smith sales tax rebounded some in March, allowing city officials to breathe a little. The March sales tax report shows the city’s share of the 1% Sebastian County sales…
by - April 24, 2024 6:11 pm
The Fort Smith Port Authority Commission on Wednesday (April 24) approved construction of a new bulk storage warehouse estimated to cost $1.7 million. The warehouse helps make up for storage…
by - April 24, 2024 10:50 am
Anyone in the market for used parking meters may want to contact the City of Fort Smith. But don’t get the checkbook out too soon. The city isn’t expected to…
by - April 15, 2024 3:12 pm
Fort Smith Regional Airport traffic is up in the first two months of 2024, reversing a traffic trend that saw enplanements dip almost 2% in 2023. It’s a trend improvement…
by - April 14, 2024 5:58 pm
It is now time, if not yesterday, for the responsible persons in our local governments and authorities to be responsible and take responsible actions toward the responsible dissolution of the…
by - April 11, 2024 5:37 pm
Departures in the U.S. House of Representatives have resulted in U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, being elevated to chair of the House Transportation and Housing & Urban Development (THUD) subcommittee…
by - April 7, 2024 4:13 pm
“This seems strange …” That’s how a rep with Turn Key construction began a sentence about his thoughts on a report attempting to reveal the causes of flooding at the…
by - April 1, 2024 9:27 am
An almost 14% gain in Sebastian County home sales was not enough to lift Fort Smith metro home sales numbers in January and February over the same period in 2023….
by - March 27, 2024 4:59 pm
Defense industry giant Lockheed Martin is the first known company with plans to locate a facility in Fort Smith to support the foreign pilot training center being established at Ebbing…
by - March 26, 2024 8:55 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (March 26) unanimously approved spending $2.85 million to buy a former Crain-Kia dealership in south Fort Smith to be used for a…
by - March 26, 2024 11:30 am
Commercial shipping on the Arkansas River in the first two months of 2024 totaled 2.078 million tons, down 1% compared with the same period in 2023. Declines in shipments of…
by - March 22, 2024 4:13 pm
Editor’s note: Story updated to include news of Senate approval of the budget bill. The U.S. House approved Friday (March 22) a federal budget bill that could not only avoid…
by - March 21, 2024 8:24 am
Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax revenue between January and December was $25.446 million, up 5.8% compared with the $24.049 million in 2022. Revenue in each month of 2023 set a new…
by - March 20, 2024 3:14 pm
Steve Clark, founder and former CEO of Fort Smith-based Propak, has been named CEO of Dallas-based PLA, the pallet-management and supply chain logistics company that bought Propak in June 2022….
by - March 18, 2024 7:22 pm
On the same day NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced in a broadly-watched speech new AI (artificial intelligence) “omniverse” products and services, Fort Smith-based ArcBest said it is a first-mover in…
by - March 12, 2024 11:43 am
Federal legislation that delivered $83 million for a foreign pilot training center in Fort Smith also brings to Arkansas $67 million to help complete Interstate 49 between Alma and Barling….
by - March 11, 2024 2:02 pm
“Significant” federal funding has been approved for work in the ongoing effort to establish a foreign pilot training center in Fort Smith, but more will be needed for the estimated…
by - March 7, 2024 3:55 pm
A proposed change in the number of ArcBest shareholder votes required to approve a sale or merger is giving life to previous conjecture that the Fort Smith-based shipping and logistics…
