by - August 10, 2025 2:41 pm
The ongoing discussion about what to do with certain Fort Smith-owned properties will be discussed further Tuesday (Aug. 12) during a Fort Smith Board of Directors’ study session. The board…
by - August 8, 2025 1:18 pm
The response to a “plague on our community” that is cancer, which is faced by more than 5,000 in the Fort Smith medical service area, will be improved with Mercy…
by - August 7, 2025 7:09 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors and the city’s Audit Advisory Committee took a step closer on Thursday (Aug. 7) in what has been a long and bumpy process to…
by - August 6, 2025 12:16 pm
During a Tuesday (Aug. 5) meeting in Fort Smith with volunteer leaders of the Fort Kids Children’s Museum, U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, committed to helping make the museum a…
by - August 5, 2025 8:17 pm
Say goodbye to the more than 300 parking meters in downtown Fort Smith, and the annual loss to the City of Fort Smith of around $35,000 for meter maintenance and…
by - August 5, 2025 10:08 am
Take a drive around major Fort Smith thoroughfares and there’s a good chance Jimmie Deer had a hand in most of the newer structures along the drive. In just the…
by - August 4, 2025 1:01 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors have made no known public effort to begin a search for a city administrator almost 8 months after the December 2024 firing of former…
by - August 3, 2025 12:36 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Aug. 5) is set to remove parking meters in downtown Fort Smith. The board also is set to vote on a resolution…
by - August 1, 2025 1:11 pm
Six static aircraft once on display at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith are now parked in a holding area during construction of the foreign military pilot training…
by - July 31, 2025 5:29 pm
Tempe, Ariz.-based Academies of Math & Science (AMS) is again seeking to open a K-8-grade public enrollment school in Fort Smith that could open in 2026 or 2027 and have…
by - July 30, 2025 7:59 am
Manufacturing sector weakness and a persistent nationwide freight recession pushed second quarter net income and revenue lower at Fort Smith-based ArcBest. However, revenue was up in the company’s less-than-truckload segment….
by - July 29, 2025 4:00 pm
A meeting between state and City of Fort Smith officials about supplying water to a planned state prison in Franklin County that was set for Tuesday (July 29) was canceled…
by - July 28, 2025 5:16 pm
The immediate financial threat facing the Hope Campus in downtown Fort Smith has relented thanks in part to the agency having to lay off six employees, or about 27% of…
by - July 28, 2025 10:29 am
Home sales between January and June in the Fort Smith metro are down almost 8% compared with the same period in 2024, but the average sales prices of homes in…
by - July 24, 2025 11:53 am
The Fort Smith Public School District has not fully restored phone and internet systems disrupted by a cyber attack that happened on or before July 21, according to information provided…
by - July 23, 2025 2:17 pm
Traffic out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport is down in the first half of 2025, but the airport finished May and June with a more than 3% gain in…
by - July 22, 2025 8:17 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (July 22) tabled a measure to move forward on the first phase of what could be a multi-million dollar effort to eventually…
by - July 21, 2025 5:31 pm
The Fort Smith Boys & Girls Club (FSBGC), along with hundreds of other clubs around the country, are scrambling to restart ongoing and planned programs after an 18-day freeze of…
by - July 19, 2025 8:41 pm
Uvalde Lindsey, a key but often behind-the-scenes architect of Northwest Arkansas’ growth and its supporting infrastructure, died Saturday. (July 19). He was 85. Lindsey’s career included being a member of…
by - July 16, 2025 1:25 pm
Fort Smith Director Christina Catsavis said Tuesday (July 15) that it’s time to permanently park the downtown Fort Smith parking meter discussion and move to a vote to remove the…
