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The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services (ADWS), the Northwest Arkansas Council and area chambers of commerce are teaming up to host an employer forum in Springdale focused on apprenticeship. Employers…
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Conway-based Home BancShares posted first quarter net income of $71.35 million, down 2.3%, from the $73.064 million in the same quarter of 2018. The per share earnings of 42 cents…
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward, and State Plant Board Director Butch Calhoun doled $20,000 in scholarships at the state capitol earlier this week to students from four…
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Veteran Americana bands Turnpike Troubadours and the North Mississippi Allstars are part of the lineup for the 2019 Peacemaker Festival set for July 26-27 at the Riverfront Amphitheater in downtown…
by - April 17, 2019 5:15 pm
Little Rock-based Bank OZK reported first quarter net income of $110.712 million, down from $113.144 million in the 2018 quarter. The per share income of 86 cents was better than…
by - April 17, 2019 3:10 pm
United States Marshals Museum (USMM) Director of Education Leslie Higgins was honored as the 2019 Friend of History Day Arkansas by History Day Arkansas for her efforts to promote and…
by - April 17, 2019 1:45 pm
Dr. Brian Primack, dean of the Honors College at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named dean of the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions. The hiring…
by - April 17, 2019 9:14 am
Industrial production declined 0.1% in March after rising 0.1% in February, according to the Federal Reserve. In the first quarter, the industrial production index declined 0.3% at an annual rate….
by - April 16, 2019 6:46 pm
Art is connecting Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith metro thanks to a partnership announced Tuesday (April 16) between the Bentonville Film Festival and The Unexpected in Fort Smith. According…
by - April 16, 2019 5:02 pm
MHI named Hytrol’s Ben Moyer, director of research and development, as the material handling industry’s top young professional for 2019 during Industry Night at its ProMat trade show last week…
by - April 16, 2019 3:19 pm
Conductor CEO Kim Lane has been invited to serve as a U.S. delegate and speaker at the 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Manama, Bahrain from April 14-18. Presented by the…
by - April 16, 2019 3:12 pm
The Regional Recycling District in Pulaski County will hold a free electronics recycling collection beginning Tuesday, April 23, at the Verizon Arena parking lot on E. Washington Avenue in North…
by - April 16, 2019 11:33 am
Primary energy consumption in the United States rose 4% to a record high of 101.3 quadrillion British thermal units in 2018, from 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration….
by - April 16, 2019 7:51 am
Electronics giant Best Buy has promoted Corie Barry to CEO as Hubert Joly is assuming the role of executive chairman effective June 11. Barry, 43, will be the first woman…
by - April 15, 2019 7:02 pm
White River Bancshares Co., the holding company of Fayetteville-based Signature Bank of Arkansas, reported Monday (April 15) that first quarter net income was $1.166 million, up from $1.096 million during…
by - April 15, 2019 6:24 pm
Judy McReynolds, chairman, president and CEO of Fort Smith-based ArcBest, has been named winner of the Women in Trucking Association’s 2019 Distinguished Woman in Logistics Award. McReynolds, also one of…
by - April 15, 2019 3:27 pm
Little Rock-based Crow-Burlingame has appointed Fletcher Lord III as president of the family-owned company that marks its 100th anniversary this year. Lord, who has served as vice president since 2012,…
by - April 15, 2019 3:18 pm
The Scott Family Amazeum in Bentonville has reached a milestone. Museum officials issued a news release Monday (April 16) saying the venue had surpassed the one million guest mark this…
by - April 15, 2019 3:06 pm
A UAMS researcher has received a grant for $1.86 million to study poxvirus with implications for infectious disease and cancer. The poxvirus — with its applications for the investigation of…
by - April 15, 2019 2:52 pm
Moriah Bruner, project coordinator for the Center for Community and Economic Development in the Division of Outreach and Community Engagement at the University of Central Arkansas, has been appointed to…
