by - December 9, 2024 5:08 pm
With yet another pedestrian hit and killed in Fort Smith by a vehicle, Fort Smith Police Chief Danny Baker issued a public statement Monday (Dec. 9) saying the department is…
by - December 3, 2024 12:54 pm
The back-and-forth over payment of legal fees in the Crawford County Library System case has taken several turns in recent weeks, including the library system director naming a new lawyer…
by - December 2, 2024 11:12 am
All eight of the metro areas in or connected to Arkansas had job gains in October, and five of the eight areas had year-over-year jobless rate declines. Northwest Arkansas had…
by - November 25, 2024 11:51 am
The Fort Smith metro appears to be rebounding from an almost 15% decline in 2023 home sales and a 12% decline in the combined value of home sales. Metro area…
by - November 21, 2024 7:06 pm
The Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) on Thursday (Nov. 21) approved a more than 23% average increase in natural gas residential energy bills for Summit Utility customers. The Colorado-based utility…
by - November 20, 2024 1:38 pm
Arkansas medical marijuana sales through October total $227.8 million, down 2.65% compared with $234 million in the same period of 2023, according to information provided Wednesday (Nov. 20) by the…
by - November 19, 2024 8:18 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Nov. 19) approved moving forward in the process to accept a $14.5 million grant that is part of the federal Climate Pollution…
by - November 18, 2024 12:21 pm
Because Crawford County officials “ignored good faith attempts” to resolve a lawsuit filed against the county’s library system for book censorship actions, the county should pay the legal fees, according…
by - November 16, 2024 11:09 am
Fort Smith attorney Joey McCutchen has been selected as legal counsel for a Franklin County group opposed to a planned state prison in the county. He’s not sure if they…
by - November 15, 2024 5:26 pm
Northwest Arkansas’ 2023 per capita income of $89,095 ranked 16th among the nation’s 384 metro areas and was the top ranked metro area in Arkansas. The state’s per capita income…
by - November 14, 2024 6:38 pm
Improving water levels on the Mississippi River have helped tonnage on the Arkansas River to swing from being down 4% year-to-date through August to being up almost 2% through October….
by - November 8, 2024 5:50 pm
A zombie issue in Arkansas is the Pope County casino license fight between Cherokee Nation Entertainment (CNE) and the Choctaw Nation. On Friday (Nov. 8), legal action was taken to…
by - November 8, 2024 1:47 pm
Adelaide Hall, one of the oldest buildings in downtown Fort Smith, may not be a total loss following a Nov. 6 fire. A property owner rep says the structure appears…
by - November 8, 2024 11:07 am
The Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) on Friday (Nov. 8) voted to accept the land for a planned 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County. The move comes after considerable protest from…
by - November 6, 2024 1:32 pm
For 40 consecutive months, beginning in March 2021, revenue from Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax has been above the same month in the previous year. But that ended in July when…
by - November 6, 2024 11:56 am
Historic Adelaide Hall in downtown Fort Smith, home to the Bricktown Brewery restaurant, was damaged by a fire that began early Wednesday (Nov. 6) morning. The extent of the damage…
by - November 5, 2024 11:48 pm
Tens of millions of dollars spent for and against an effort to block construction of a casino in Pope County with a constitutional amendment resulted in the passage of Issue…
by - November 5, 2024 10:04 pm
The two contested Arkansas legislative for areas representing parts of Fort Smith will remain in Republican hands. Reps. Cindy Crawford and Zach Gramlich, both of Fort Smith, were re-elected with…
by - November 5, 2024 9:52 pm
Eureka Springs will retain its hospitality tax revenue and its adverting and promotion commission after 71.2% of voters in the tourism-focused city rejected a citizen initiative to put an end…
by - October 30, 2024 4:16 pm
The Fort Smith metro posted year-over-year net job gains of almost 2% in September, with job numbers up almost 4% in the past five years, but 4.4% below record metro…
