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…
by - February 5, 2025 5:22 pm
Arkansas’ medical marijuana sales in 2024 were down more than 2% compared to record sales in 2023, but the pounds sold were up more than 20%, according to figures posted…
by - January 31, 2025 10:22 am
Higher input costs and a “prolonged” weakness in the manufacturing sector pushed fourth quarter net income down more than 40% at Fort Smith-based ArcBest. However, quarterly earnings per share of…
by - January 30, 2025 4:07 pm
An appropriations bill recently filed for the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith places a limit of $118.28 million for spending in the next fiscal year, but it’s rare that…
by - January 27, 2025 5:58 pm
The almost $300 million project to build part of a section of Interstate 49 between Alma and Barling is not expected to be delayed or halted by a recent presidential…
by - January 24, 2025 6:32 pm
There is about $40 million in federal grant funds awarded to the City of Fort Smith in limbo following an executive order by President Donald Trump to freeze certain infrastructure…
by - January 23, 2025 6:30 pm
Rogers-based Beaty Capital Group (BCG), which invested in its first TempleLive property in downtown Fort Smith, has partnered with the Fischer Companies on a $23 million renovation of an historic…
by - January 17, 2025 12:27 pm
Your tall corn stalks and brushy tomato plants should be safe from prohibitive local government laws if a bill filed by Rep. DeAnn Vaught, R-Horatio, survives the legislative process. You’ll…
