by - May 28, 2024 2:01 pm
Arkansas Waterways Commission officials are concerned about the “small staff of two” getting lost in an organizational shuffle, but are optimistic that state leaders understand the need to protect a…
by - May 23, 2024 1:44 pm
Funding efforts for the next U.S. fiscal year are already underway. At least $70 million could be used to build an academic training base at Ebbing Air National Guard Base…
by - May 17, 2024 1:38 pm
Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax revenue between January and February was $3.4 million, up 8.7% compared with $3.129 million in the same period of 2023. Revenue in each of the first…
by - May 14, 2024 2:57 pm
Investing in Arkansas has formed to oppose a possible constitutional amendment to repeal a controversial Pope County casino license. The latest move is part of ongoing legal actions by the…
by - May 6, 2024 11:26 am
Job numbers were down in four of Arkansas’ eight metro areas in March, with the Northwest Arkansas metro having the highest percentage year-over-year growth at 2.1%. All but one area…
by - May 6, 2024 8:20 am
Fort Smith native Jackson Mendenhall is one of the rare people who know what they want to do before graduating college and where they will do it. He graduated from…
by - May 6, 2024 8:20 am
Leilani Ocasio isn’t discouraged by rejection. It just means there is another path to a “yes.” Ocasio graduated from Northside High School in Fort Smith and earned a bachelor’s degree…
by - May 3, 2024 10:25 am
Richard Deaner said the planned pace of work at the Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith is “real unusual in today’s environment,” but is needed to ensure the…
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…
