by - June 27, 2025 11:57 am
Traffic at the Fort Smith Regional Airport was up in May, but is down almost 3% in the first five months of 2025. Enplanements at the airport have yet to…
by - June 27, 2025 10:59 am
Arkansas’ real gross domestic product (GDP) was 0.8% in the first quarter, ranking the state fifth for growth among the 50 states. Personal income grew at an annual rate of…
by - June 26, 2025 5:19 pm
The Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) on Thursday (June 26) voted to authorize up to $50,000 to conduct testing for water well testing at a proposed prison site in Franklin…
by - June 25, 2025 3:45 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors has given the green light to allowing city staff to work with Ameresco to develop options to modernize the city’s water meter system, which…
by - June 25, 2025 11:49 am
The City of Fort Smith has assessed 466.18 miles of sewer lines and cleaned 452 miles of those lines since 2015 as part of work to address requirements of a…
by - June 24, 2025 9:12 pm
Construction on the slackwater harbor in Van Buren along the Arkansas River is set to begin in April 2026, with completion of the long-awaited regional infrastructure asset estimated to be…
by - June 24, 2025 5:12 pm
Wes Milam has a lot to do. Between now and early 2027, he’s been tasked to lead an effort to consolidate 911 operations in Sebastian County that includes millions of…
by - June 24, 2025 9:50 am
Arkansas’ job trends in May were similar to April. An almost 10% rise in the number of jobless and a relative decline in the number of employed resulting in an…
by - June 23, 2025 4:21 pm
Crawford and Sebastian counties could lose almost $600 million in Medicaid funding over a decade if proposed federal legislation is approved, according to “rough” estimates from the Arkansas Advocates for…
by - June 21, 2025 1:45 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors has asked city staff to better communicate sewer system work to address improvements mandated by a federal consent decree. Part of that communication will…
by - June 21, 2025 1:29 pm
The hiring of Wes Milam as director of public safety communications for the City of Fort Smith is a key step in the consolidation of 911 operations in the city…
by - June 18, 2025 5:21 pm
Fort Smith City Director Christina Catsavis will end her push to shift the hire-fire power with department heads from the city administrator to the board, but she is discouraged about…
by - June 18, 2025 5:03 pm
The Van Buren Chamber of Commerce is less than two weeks away from a long-awaited move into its newly renovated offices at 111 N. 12th St., according to chamber President…
by - June 17, 2025 9:14 pm
An effort by Fort Smith Director Christina Catsavis to shift the city’s hire-fire authority over department heads from the city administrator to the board was short-lived, with the board voting…
by - June 17, 2025 8:46 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (June 17) rejected two sewer rate options for the city of Arkoma, which by default sets the rate at $8.75 per ccf….
by - June 16, 2025 6:09 pm
The U.S. Marshals Museum recently laid off employees as part of “difficult choices” to respond to a downturn in visitors, according to Benjamin Johnson, museum president and CEO. Johnson said…
by - June 14, 2025 1:45 pm
Editor’s note: This essay, with a few minor edits, was first published in 2005. There comes a time to sell stuff long ago tucked away in closets, kitchen cabinets, attic,…
by - June 14, 2025 1:31 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors may soon change a more than 10-year policy on the hiring and firing of city department heads. The board also is set to vote…
by - June 11, 2025 4:16 pm
Fort Smith Mayor George McGill is one of those in the region concerned about the future of the Fort Smith National Historic Site. Trump administration budget cuts would leave the…
by - June 10, 2025 10:21 pm
Arkoma Mayor Joshua Johnson on Tuesday (June 10) told the Fort Smith Board of Directors that if the two cities can’t negotiate a new sewer rate agreement, a “plan B”…
