by - May 3, 2018 1:58 pm
Windstream Holdings Inc. on Thursday (April 3) reported improvement in revenue growth and customer additions in the first quarter of 2018, but still posted steep losses as the Little Rock-based…
by - May 2, 2018 10:28 pm
Murphy Oil USA Inc. on Wednesday (May 2) flipped to a profit from a year ago as strong in-store merchandise sales and the fuel distribution business led the El Dorado-based…
by - May 2, 2018 9:07 pm
El Dorado-based Murphy Oil Corp. posted Wednesday (May 2) strong first quarter results as improving international oil prices lifted the Arkansas oil company’s expanding global exploration and production program. For…
by - May 2, 2018 8:06 pm
Two startup companies from Poland and Switzerland were among the 10 startup companies that were selected Wednesday (May 2) to participate in the third iteration of the Venture Center’s FinTech…
by - May 2, 2018 2:18 pm
Two months before the end of fiscal year 2018, state budget coffers are nearly $54 million ahead of forecast despite lukewarm tax collections in April after more Arkansans received bigger…
by - May 1, 2018 5:21 pm
Rising international crude oil futures lifted gas prices to their highest level since 2014 with many metropolitan areas across the U.S. seeing their costs at the pump soar over $3…
by - May 1, 2018 12:39 pm
A study published Tuesday (May 1) by the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, the City of Little Rock and a Washington, D.C.-business coalition reports that foreign-born residents contributed $2…
by - May 1, 2018 6:33 am
Another Arkansas politician has been caught up in the net of an ongoing federal investigation involving the handling General Improvement Funds (GIF) that has already snared four other state lawmakers,…
by - April 30, 2018 5:30 pm
The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of business and community partners on Monday (April 30) unveiled a strategic plan that identifies six priorities that regional leaders…
by - April 30, 2018 11:13 am
As Arkansas banks enter 2018 with a record $90 billion in assets, the way consumers access their banking accounts and other financial resources is rapidly changing as mobile banking and…
by - April 27, 2018 4:25 pm
Secretary of State Mark Martin and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed appeals Friday (April 27) with the Arkansas Supreme Court to intervene in a late Thursday evening decision by a…
by - April 27, 2018 10:07 am
The nation’s economy fell in the first quarter of 2018 as weak consumer spending and fewer housing purchases pushed real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to the lowest level in…
by - April 26, 2018 8:04 pm
A Pulaski County circuit court judge late Thursday (April 26) declared a Voter ID bill overwhelmingly approved by the General Assembly in 2017 as unconstitutional and entered a preliminary injunction…
by - April 25, 2018 8:37 pm
A legislative task force on Wednesday (April 25) began the difficult and long task of studying whether 43 sales tax exemptions in the state’s unwieldy tax code are justified or…
by - April 24, 2018 8:35 pm
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) recognized the state’s top environmental stewards during a ceremony at the State Capitol Tuesday (April 24) where Gov. Asa Hutchinson touted key conservation…
by - April 24, 2018 1:06 pm
Little Rock-based Southern Bancorp has raised $17.75 million in funding from several of the region’s top banks and private investors as part of the rural bank holding group’s capital campaign…
by - April 23, 2018 6:18 pm
Simmons First National Corp., which pushed its reach into Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado in 2017, reported that quarterly profits more than doubled from a year ago as the Pine Bluff-based…
by - April 23, 2018 4:26 pm
First National Bank announced a deal Monday (April 23) to acquire the once-troubled Onebanc of Little Rock, further expanding the Northeast Arkansas’ community bank’s fast-growing footprint into the state’s largest…
by - April 20, 2018 2:13 pm
Arkansas’ tight job market held serve in March in line with the national trend where unemployment rates in nearly all 50 states reported little or no change at the end…
by - April 19, 2018 11:40 am
Home Bancshares Inc. closed out the first three months of 2018 with record first quarter earnings, largely boosted by strong loan growth from the bank’s commercial real estate lending arm…
