by - October 3, 2017 3:00 pm
The Downtown Springdale Alliance (DSA) has announced a new event celebrating the Ozarks region. Ozarktober Fest is a four-day series of events planned for Oct. 26-Oct. 29 in downtown Springdale….
by - October 3, 2017 2:18 pm
Centennial Bank parent company Home BancShares Inc. of Conway announced Tuesday (Oct. 3) the promotion of Kelly Buchanan to a new position, director of corporate branch strategies. Buchanan’s responsibilities include…
by - October 3, 2017 2:02 pm
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock will receive a $4.9 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to improve a runway safety area. On Tuesday (Oct….
by - October 3, 2017 12:51 pm
TEDxDicksonStreet is planned for Friday (Oct. 6) at the UARK Bowl, 644 W. Dickson St. in Fayetteville. The all-day event is a locally organized event, independent from global expert speaker…
by - October 3, 2017 11:59 am
NorthWest Arkansas Community College’s Brightwater: A Center for the Study of food, has partnered with Bentonville-based Airship Coffee to offer a specialty coffee certification to the beverage module of its…
by - October 3, 2017 11:12 am
Nancy Peevy, a freelance writer for Talk Business & Politics and the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, has captured several state and national writing awards, including a first place national award…
by - October 3, 2017 10:43 am
Editor’s note: The Arkansas Transportation Report is managed by Talk Business & Politics and sponsored by the Arkansas Trucking Association and the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce. Other transportation industry related stories can be…
by - October 3, 2017 9:45 am
Fayetteville will collaborate with Ozarks Electric Cooperative on a pilot program to install LED bulbs in streetlights, as part of the city’s efforts to decrease energy consumption, according to a…
by - October 3, 2017 9:17 am
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology will host the 22nd annual Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Conference on Information Quality….
by - October 2, 2017 5:14 pm
Springdale is the sixth fastest-growing small city in the United States, according to WalletHub.com. The Northwest Arkansas city jumped two spots in WalletHub’s 2017 study on the Fastest-Growing Cities in…
by - October 2, 2017 10:39 am
Total energy consumption and total energy cost for the U.S. government declined in fiscal year 2016, according to the Federal Energy Management Program. Total energy cost, which includes the amount…
by - October 1, 2017 9:44 am
Time to unveil something new, something fun for the 2018 campaign season. You want to keep up with all of the folks announcing and running for office, don’t you? Who’s…
by - September 29, 2017 4:07 pm
Natural gas inventories in the lower 48 states have fallen since April to a level lower than they were in the same period in 2016, but they continue to be…
by - September 29, 2017 2:20 pm
Boston-based Iron Mountain Inc., a publicly traded storage and data management firm, announced the opening of a new 23,000 square foot information management facility in fast-growing Otter Creek area of…
by - September 29, 2017 10:00 am
The Arkansas Heart Foundation (AHA) announced Friday (Sept. 29) the hiring of Sue Owens as its new executive director. Owens had been executive director at Economics Arkansas for the past…
by - September 28, 2017 11:05 am
Startup Junkie Consulting and the Exchange are hosting a Startup Crawl 4-9 p.m. on Friday (Sept. 29) to highlight the Downtown Innovation District in Fayetteville. Startup Crawl will start at…
by - September 28, 2017 10:09 am
Winrock International has named state Sen. David Sanders, R-Little Rock, director of Innovate Arkansas, a statewide initiative that helps scale technology companies. In his new role, Sanders will lead a…
by - September 28, 2017 9:55 am
Outages at U.S. nuclear power plants were 10% lower or on average 4.6 gigawatts in the summer of 2017 (June through August), compared to the same period in 2016, according…
by - September 28, 2017 8:53 am
The board of directors of Springdale-chartered Legacy National Bank announced Thursday (Sept. 28) the promotion of president Patrick Swope to CEO, effective Nov. 1. Swope assumes the title previously held…
by - September 27, 2017 5:26 pm
Steve Brawner with Independent Arkansas reports: The Little Rock School District could have a school board election so it can be returned to local control as early as May…
