by - November 5, 2014 6:32 pm
Murphy Oil Corp. announced Tuesday following the close of business that it failed to complete the sale of its 130,0000-barrel per day crude oil refinery in the United Kingdom as…
by - October 30, 2014 1:14 pm
The head of the Arkansas Research and Technology Park said Thursday that the “town and gown” collaborative effort between the city of Fayetteville and University of Arkansas has been the…
by - October 29, 2014 5:11 pm
El Dorado oil giant Murphy Oil Corp. saw third quarter earnings fall 10.8% from a year ago as sliding crude prices and weaker international oil demand cut into the company’s…
by - October 28, 2014 5:06 pm
As BHP Billiton begins the difficult job of marketing its Fayetteville Shale assets, a top Wall Street analyst says prospective suitors will definitely have an advantage in negotiations with the…
by - October 23, 2014 11:35 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the USDA has handed out another multi-million dollar federal loan to an Arkansas privately-held organization under the department’s new Energy Efficiency and Conservation…
by - October 22, 2014 5:40 pm
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $24 million loan to Danville-based ArkWest Communication to build a “fiber-to-home” network to provide voice, broadband and internet TV service to nearly…
by - October 21, 2014 3:11 pm
As U.S. and international oil prices struggle to stay above $80 barrel, many energy analysts fear that slow global growth and soft demand for energy could signal a permanent shift…
by - October 17, 2014 3:57 pm
A Federal Reserve economist says Arkansas’ economy struggles to gain a stable foothold for solid growth years after the Great Recession. How is that impacting jobs, incomes, home sales, agriculture and more?
by - October 17, 2014 12:37 am
Two Stuttgart-based rice mills with annual revenues together exceeding $2.1 billion once again made the top 100 list of the nation’s agricultural cooperatives, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
by - October 7, 2014 12:16 pm
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is raising the borrowing limit for its microloan program from $35,000 to $50,000 as part of the 2014 Farm Bill overhaul giving farmers better…
by - October 3, 2014 5:29 am
Over the last decade, Southwestern Energy Co. wrote the state of Arkansas a billion-dollar economic development check each year, not counting the interest made on high-paying jobs and shale dollars turning over in local communities. Can it continue?
by - October 1, 2014 7:21 pm
Gov. Mike Beebe thanked hundreds of Southwestern Energy Co. employees on Wednesday for not only boosting the state’s economic fortunes over the last decade, but for helping to lessen the nation’s dependence on foreign energy sources.
by - September 24, 2014 10:30 am
As pump prices across Arkansas retail locations start moving below the psychological $3 a gallon level, local price wars are igniting at strategic and high-traffic transportation hubs as consumers employ smartphone apps and other digital tools to find the cheapest gas.
by - September 18, 2014 8:39 pm
Severance tax collections in Arkansas reached an all-time high of $77.3 million in fiscal 2014 and are poised to move higher, but the increased activity might not translate to more jobs.
by - September 16, 2014 12:02 pm
Northwest Arkansas’ business development and job production grew by a whopping 5.6 percentage points in 2013 — ranking the area as the 26th fastest-expanding economy in the U.S., according to…
by - September 16, 2014 8:26 am
The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the “Rock City Bus Tour” on Thursday as part of the 2014 Minority Business Enterprise Development week, sponsored by the…
by - September 11, 2014 9:20 pm
This progressive lawmaker’s day job puts him at the epicenter of Central Arkansas’ burgeoning startup community.
by - September 10, 2014 1:46 pm
Tumbling crude oil prices are pushing gasoline pump prices to their lowest level in years, giving optimism to U.S. and Arkansas consumers that they will be able to fill up…
by - September 3, 2014 1:51 pm
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded $2,988,000 to the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission (ANRC) to support management of water pollution in priority watersheds throughout Arkansas, including the Illinois…
by - August 28, 2014 6:03 pm
Six stakeholder groups went back-and-forth Thursday for several hours on the economic impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending regulations to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants in Arkansas.
