by - March 20, 2017 5:59 pm
A key program that is part of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s workforce initiative to retrain and retool Arkansas’ blue collar-focused labor pool for a more technology-oriented economy could be at risk…
by - March 20, 2017 4:00 pm
Crude oil prices rose for the majority of 2016, but oil production fell to 8.9 million barrels per day last year, from 9.4 million barrels per day in 2015, according…
by - March 20, 2017 2:57 pm
Fort Smith closed 2016 in a final unaudited report submitted Saturday (March 18) that showed slight gains in the city’s sales tax collections for December and the year as a…
by - March 20, 2017 1:35 pm
One of Bentonville’s oldest businesses has been sold and is going out of business, possibly making way for more development in the city’s Market District. Bentonville Casting Co., founded in…
by - March 20, 2017 12:23 pm
Jonesboro issued $14.556 million in commercial permits in February, nearly three times as much as was issued in the same month in the last two years – combined. The city…
by - March 20, 2017 11:44 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson continued his administration’s efforts to boost the state’s effort in the computer sciences field with the formation of the Blue Ribbon Commission to Report on the Economic…
by - March 20, 2017 11:00 am
Arvest Equipment Finance (AEF), a division of Arvest Bank, tallied $234.7 million in loans and leases during 2016, up 25.1% from the prior year. The equipment finance division, according to…
by - March 20, 2017 9:33 am
Trucking and shipping companies shouldn’t hold their breath for big rate increases, analysts said. Shippers aren’t in the mood to see their rates rise. Shippers are offering carriers existing incentives…
by - March 17, 2017 5:16 pm
Arkansans will celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday alone next January and remember General Robert E. Lee in October after House members passed a bill giving King his own day…
by - March 17, 2017 2:56 pm
Earlier this week, I joined nearly 400 tourism leaders at the 43rd Annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism. It was an opportunity to highlight the outstanding accomplishments of those in Arkansas’s…
by - March 17, 2017 9:56 am
Airline service in four of Arkansas’ faster-growing cities would be eliminated under President Donald Trump’s budget cuts to the Department of Transportation’s Essential Air Service program, a program created nearly…
by - March 17, 2017 5:54 am
The Junior Leadership Academy (JLA) has wrapped up its inaugural year as a partnership between the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce and Fort Smith Public Schools (FSPS), and named…
by - March 16, 2017 5:15 pm
As more details of President Donald Trump’s budget were unveiled, a number of Arkansas agencies and organizations that could see deep or complete funding cuts were speaking out. Delta Regional…
by - March 16, 2017 2:52 pm
Wal-Mart Stores, through its online subsidiary Jet.com, is reportedly about to close a deal for the trendy fashion startup ModCloth. The San Francisco Bay area company would mark Wal-Mart’s third…
by - March 16, 2017 2:12 pm
Earlier this year, Talk Business & Politics and the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal – with input from observers of the area’s startup scene – tagged several startup industries as the…
by - March 16, 2017 1:59 pm
Walmart.com recently restructured under new CEO Marc Lore, which was soon followed by the acquisitions of online specialty retailers ShoeBuy and Moosejaw. Lore decided make the best use of the…
by - March 16, 2017 1:27 pm
Harps Food Stores has a new retail concept that advertises all items priced “at cost,” with a flat 10% added at the register. 10BOX Cost-Plus recently opened in a former…
by - March 16, 2017 12:45 pm
The U.S. House Budget Committee on Thursday (March 16) advanced the American Health Care Act, with the two Arkansas members on the committee, U.S. Reps. Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman,…
by - March 16, 2017 10:16 am
The amount of fuel ethanol the United States exported increased 26% to more than 1 billion gallons, or 68,000 barrels per day, in 2016, from 2015, according to U.S. Energy…
by - March 16, 2017 10:15 am
A University of Arkansas student team that formed the company Grox Industries won first place and almost $15,000 at the Stu Clark Investment Competition on March 11 at the University…
