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…
by - March 5, 2024 7:48 pm
Sam Seeger is planning to invest up to $40 million to build an “upscale, high-end” active lifestyle community in Fort Smith for those age 55 and older that would be…
by - February 22, 2024 2:25 pm
“Defeating the status quo” was how U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, tied his thoughts – and frustrations – on moving things through Congress with ArcBest’s new system to move things…
by - February 20, 2024 6:59 pm
Attorneys representing the Crawford County Library System argue that the relocation of LGBTQ books was not a First Amendment violation and instead “strikes a balance” that is “constitutionally compliant” and…
by - February 19, 2024 5:27 pm
Plaintiffs hoping to reverse actions by the Crawford County Library System that relocated books with LGBTQ content have filed a request for summary judgment and are hopeful a previous court…
by - February 12, 2024 2:31 pm
Editor’s note: The State of the State series provides reports twice a year on Arkansas’ key economic sectors. The series publishes stories to begin a year and stories in July/August…
by - February 8, 2024 4:03 pm
Higher interest rates, fewer willing buyers and a “dramatic decrease” in homeowners willing to sell combined to push Fort Smith metro home sales down 14.5% in 2023, with Sebastian County…
by - February 8, 2024 9:23 am
Tourism industry jobs, the state’s 2% tourism tax and municipal hospitality taxes continue to show that Arkansas’ leisure and hospitality economy remains healthy in 2023 – especially when considering it’s…
by - February 6, 2024 9:45 am
Full-year net income reported by Fort Smith-based ArcBest was down 34.4% thanks in large part to a more than 2% decline in a closely watched revenue metric, a more than…
by - February 1, 2024 6:23 pm
Editor’s note: The State of the State series provides reports twice a year on Arkansas’ key economic sectors. The series publishes stories to begin a year and stories in July/August…
by - February 1, 2024 6:09 pm
Jamol Jones, who was recently appointed by Gov. Sarah Sanders to the Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC), was fired from the Benton Police Department in 2018 after having a sexual…
by - January 17, 2024 6:46 pm
Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) member Lee Watson on Wednesday (Jan. 17) sent a letter to Gov. Sarah Sanders asking her and other state officials to move beyond recent conflicts…
by - January 16, 2024 2:00 pm
Traffic at the Fort Smith Regional Airport fell off the pace of post-COVID-19 recovery with total 2023 enplanements down 1.7% compared with 2022 numbers. Fort Smith enplanements are also off…
by - January 11, 2024 4:10 pm
Arkansas River tonnage was up more than 16% in December, which helped push total tonnage shipped in 2023 up almost 11% compared with 2022, according to numbers posted Thursday (Jan….
by - January 2, 2024 5:15 pm
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders is citing the resignation of 188th Wing Commander Col. Dillon Patterson in a letter to President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that asks…
by - December 21, 2023 1:19 pm
Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) Chair Benny Magness has asked Gov. Sarah Sanders for 138 National Guard members to help with staff shortages in the state’s prison system that Magness…
by - December 20, 2023 3:39 pm
Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Tim Fox not only issued a terse rejection of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin’s lawsuit against the Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC), the judge suggested…
by - December 14, 2023 4:45 pm
When Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) Chair Benny Magness said the situation between the board and Corrections Secretary Joe Profiri was “untenable,” he meant it. The Board on Thursday (Dec….
by - December 12, 2023 2:58 pm
Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport totaled 50,821 between January and October, down 2.15% compared with the same period in 2022. Barring robust November and December numbers, the trend…
by - December 11, 2023 1:46 pm
The potential for a dispute at Arkansas’ “constitutional crossroads” increased Dec. 8 when the Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) hired a lawyer to represent the board in an ongoing prison…
