by - February 27, 2023 4:51 pm
Rising interest rates in 2022 put a halt on two years of record Fort Smith metro home sales. The metro had 3,827 homes sales in 2022, down 13% from 4,400…
by - February 22, 2023 3:14 pm
The top Sebastian County property transaction in January was part of a two-transaction deal with an old gas station property in Fort Smith that involved a real estate company based…
by - February 21, 2023 7:16 pm
Haas Hall Academy is wrapping up an almost $2 million renovation of former office space to open its fifth high school campus on the fourth floor of the Arkansas Colleges…
by - February 13, 2023 3:12 pm
The building has a chandelier from a theater in the Hamptons and a wheel from a Barnum & Bailey circus wagon. The wheel is a light fixture. One desk features…
by - February 7, 2023 11:34 am
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Tuesday (Feb. 7) the capture of Neil Ravi Mehta in Austin, Texas. He had been on the run following a Jan. 31 raid…
by - February 7, 2023 10:05 am
Jobless rates remain low in all of the eight metro areas within or including parts of Arkansas, but six showed rate increases in December compared with December 2021, according to…
by - February 6, 2023 5:22 pm
A final Environmental Impact Statement released in late January by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) continues to show Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith as the “preferred” site…
by - February 1, 2023 4:41 pm
The type of “Scorpion” police unit that existed in Memphis and whose members were part of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, has no place in Fort Smith because they…
by - February 1, 2023 3:49 pm
Job and hospitality tax revenue records continue to be set in Arkansas’ tourism industry, with the state’s 2% tourism tax in the first 10 months of 2022 up more than…
by - February 1, 2023 1:00 pm
There are valid concerns about Arkansas’ overall economic health during 2023, but the manufacturing sector is expected to remain “healthy” even with some areas of the sector slowing down. That’s…
by - January 31, 2023 11:07 am
The U.S. and Arkansas economies may have 99 problems, or more considering inflation, but a recession in 2023 ain’t one of them. Probably not, anyway. Or at least not a…
by - January 25, 2023 2:13 pm
A $2.45 million sale of the Rodeway Hotel at 2123 Burnham Road was the top Sebastian County property deals in December, according to info from the office of Sebastian County…
by - January 17, 2023 10:27 am
The effort to build an intermodal port in the Fort Smith metro has received $3.17 million in government funds and spent or obligated at least $2.9 million since 2019. While…
by - January 11, 2023 6:01 pm
A more than 16% gain in outbound shipments and gains in sand, gravel, rock and iron/steel shipments resulted in a 2.94% gain in commercial tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River…
by - January 10, 2023 9:13 pm
Aging infrastructure, a shortage of repair workers, and a deep winter freeze were primary reasons for 43.4% more leaks in 2022, a pending list of 371 leaks at year end,…
by - January 9, 2023 3:58 pm
Cynthia Coughlin of Bentonville has been appointed to the U.S. Marshals Museum Foundation Board of Directors, bringing the board number to 20. After many years of delays, the Fort Smith…
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…
