by - December 6, 2025 12:16 pm
Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Playground Progress Officials and students with the Fort Smith Public School District recently held a groundbreaking event for a $3.3…
by - December 5, 2025 1:01 pm
Arkansas-based restaurant group Yellow Rocket Concepts launched a community-focused fundraiser supporting food banks across its operating regions. Its brands include Big Orange, Local Lime, ZAZA, Taco & Tamale Co. and…
by - December 2, 2025 5:24 pm
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Maulden-Entergy chair and Donaghey Distinguished Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has received a $5 million award to research and develop…
by - December 2, 2025 5:01 pm
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a five-year, $10.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop biomarkers for all human diseases including…
by - December 2, 2025 3:53 pm
A new entrance to the Windgate Art & Design Building on the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) campus has opened and is part of an ongoing almost 19,000-square-foot…
by - December 2, 2025 3:28 pm
Bentonville-based Heartland Forward announced Monday (Dec. 1) that it will work with Microsoft to expand economic opportunity, job creation and innovation in the central United States through the Microsoft TechSpark…
by - December 1, 2025 8:53 am
Hendrix College received a $10 million endowment challenge grant from Little Rock’s Windgate Foundation, marking one of the largest single investments in the college’s history. Hendrix is preparing to celebrate…
by - November 30, 2025 11:57 am
Editor’s note: The Fort Smith Metro Daily News Executive Summary series is focused on looking under the title, so to speak, of a business, government, and non-profit executive in the…
by - November 30, 2025 11:23 am
Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. ArcBest Money Fort Smith-based ArcBest recently announced it has amended a credit agreement with U.S. National Bank, Truist Bank, Regions…
by - November 30, 2025 9:00 am
There is archeological evidence that humans were brewing beer in China almost 10,000 years ago. Other evidence points to beer brewing in Iraq 7,000 years ago, and the ancient Egyptians…
by - November 26, 2025 6:04 am
Arkansas State University has been awarded about $2 million in funding during the next five years from the Office of Postsecondary Education, a subdivision of the U.S. Department of Education,…
by - November 25, 2025 11:17 am
Fayetteville-based Washington Regional Medical System has hired doctors for its emergency department and to direct its infection prevention and control program. Following are recent new hires, promotions, awards, and appointments…
by - November 25, 2025 10:52 am
The University of Arkansas announced Tuesday (Nov. 25) that the Simmons family and employees of Siloam Springs-based Simmons Foods will give $1 million to the UA’s Land of Opportunity Scholarship…
by - November 24, 2025 11:17 am
The University of Arkansas recently received more than $1 million in gifts for its Land of Opportunity Scholarship endowment. UA alumnus Bruce Woody and his wife, Rebecca, gave $1 million…
by - November 22, 2025 9:51 am
Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Student Registration The Fort Smith Public School District is opening new student registration Dec. 1, a month before the state’s…
by - November 20, 2025 8:52 pm
The Conway City Council passed an ordinance establishing an entertainment district in The Village at Hendrix at its meeting last Tuesday. The ordinance takes effect 30 days from the meeting,…
by - November 20, 2025 3:23 pm
The University of Arkansas will receive a $13.17 million federal grant to allow its transit provider, Razorback Transit, to buy new buses and paratransit vans. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA)…
by - November 20, 2025 8:51 am
Businessman and Arkansas State University Distinguished Alumnus Ron Rhodes has died. Rhodes, 78, passed away Tuesday (Nov. 18) according to a social media post by his company King-Rhodes & Associates. “It is with great…
by - November 19, 2025 3:09 pm
The city of Bentonville has issued a $42.26 million permit for construction of a five-story, 300-unit multifamily housing complex that will serve students of Alice L. Walton School of Medicine…
by - November 18, 2025 6:29 pm
Insight Leadership Group, a Fayetteville-based leadership development, executive coaching and management training company, is accepting applications for the 2026 Insight Executive Leadership Academy. Cohorts will be hosted in Northwest Arkansas…
