by - April 8, 2019 11:09 pm
After nearly three months of line-by-line scrutiny of one of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s major legislative priorities to reorganize state government, the Arkansas Senate on Monday (April 8) approved a 2,047-page…
by - April 8, 2019 4:10 pm
The Arkansas Legislature on Monday (April 8) took a major step toward adjourning the 2019 fiscal session after the Joint Budget Committee approved Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s $5.75 billion balanced budget…
by - April 4, 2019 2:16 pm
The number of approved medical marijuana ID cards ratcheted upwards nearly 25% only weeks before the first legal cannabis products hit the market in Arkansas. Late Wednesday (April 3), the…
by - April 2, 2019 9:57 pm
Arkansas budget coffers in March percolated out of a two-month malaise as corporate and individual income tax collections exceeded the state’s own internal forecast and year-ago results, state Department of…
by - April 2, 2019 4:00 pm
In a marginless vote of 75-18, the Arkansas House on Tuesday (April 2) approved the $8.1 billion appropriations for the state’s Medicaid expansion program and other state Department of Human…
by - April 2, 2019 3:47 pm
A House committee on Tuesday (April 2) gave a do-pass recommendation to the final piece of a four-part legislative package aimed at overhauling Arkansas’ burdensome tax code. Senate Bill 576…
by - April 1, 2019 2:33 pm
More than 50 tech-connected teenagers and millennials from across the state spent the weekend in North Little Rock as part of a Facebook Inc. initiative to provide Arkansas college students…
by - April 1, 2019 12:09 pm
U.S. steelmaker Nucor Corp. has announced plans to build its new state of the art steel plate mill in Brandenburg, Ky., located along the Ohio River southwest of Louisville. The…
by - April 1, 2019 12:04 pm
American Electric Power (AEP), one of the nation’s largest power companies, has launched a new strategic initiative to identify promising entrepreneurs and early and growth stage companies to help the…
by - March 29, 2019 12:53 pm
The Arkansas House of Representatives on Friday (March 29) soundly rejected the $8.1 billion budget for the state’s Medicaid expansion program and other Department of Human Services priorities only two…
by - March 28, 2019 1:07 pm
The U.S. economy is braking faster than previously thought as the final GDP reading for the fourth quarter showed moderate growth of only 2.2%, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of…
by - March 27, 2019 11:47 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson told attendees gathered at the ICBA ThinkTech Accelerator’s Demo Day on Wednesday (March 27) that he believes Arkansas can become a global “technology center” where companies can…
by - March 27, 2019 11:35 pm
Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, pulled down a controversial proposal in committee Wednesday (March 27) that would transfer oversight of the state’s liquid animal waste program from the state Department of…
by - March 27, 2019 5:34 pm
The Arkansas Senate on Wednesday (March 27) approved an appropriations bill for the state’s Medicaid expansion program and other state Department of Human Services priorities only moments before a federal…
by - March 26, 2019 8:24 pm
The Arkansas Senate on Tuesday (March 26) backed legislation to alter the state’s term limits law, and later followed that up by unanimously approving one of several ethics reform bills…
by - March 26, 2019 11:16 am
Rural broadband carrier Fidelity Communications is nearing completion on a one-year initiative to move all standard cable modem customers to 50 Mbps Internet speed across central Arkansas. Fidelity, which provides…
by - March 25, 2019 4:21 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson told reporters on Monday (March 25) that he does not a support a controversial proposal approved by the Arkansas Senate last week that will transfer oversight of…
by - March 21, 2019 3:43 pm
Nearly two decades after Murphy Oil Corp. discovered oil in deepwater Malaysia, the El Dorado oil company announced a multibillion dollar deal Thursday (March 21) to exit Southeast Asia and…
by - March 20, 2019 10:41 pm
Uniti Corp. on Wednesday (March 20) posted its delayed fourth quarter and yearly earnings report after the company’s independent auditor warned there is “substantial doubt” about the company’s future over…
by - March 19, 2019 7:56 pm
One day after a procedural maneuver stalled a measure on the Senate floor to create new funding for a national cancer research center at UAMS in Little Rock, lawmakers on…
