by - January 18, 2017 6:10 pm
The Great Recession devastated many parts of Arkansas when the economy began to flounder in 2008. Unemployment rates spiked, jobs withered, real estate sales halted, and median incomes stagnated. One…
by - January 18, 2017 5:39 pm
Simmons First National Corp. profits jumped more than 13% in the fourth quarter as the fast-growing Arkansas banking group looks to expand its reach westward in 2017 through a recently-announced…
by - January 18, 2017 5:24 pm
The Northwest Arkansas residential housing market had a strong year in 2016, with sales volume in Benton and Washington counties hitting a combined $1.91 billion, up 21.6% from a sales…
by - January 18, 2017 5:09 pm
Bear State Financial on Wednesday announced that its board of directors has named 35-year old Matt Machen as the fast-growing community bank’s president and CEO, replacing Mark McFatridge who resigned…
by - January 18, 2017 4:54 pm
Though drones and augmented reality applications have not become mainstream, retailers from Amazon to Wal-Mart Stores are securing patents and testing cutting edge technologies that are beginning to tiptoe into…
by - January 18, 2017 3:39 pm
Two bills related to medicinal marijuana passed the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee Wednesday (Jan. 18), a day after both passed the full House of Representatives. Also, bills…
by - January 18, 2017 1:30 pm
Daisy Outdoor Products will expand its Rogers facility and add about two dozen jobs in the next two years, company leaders announced on Wednesday (Jan. 18) alongside Gov. Asa Hutchinson…
by - January 18, 2017 1:09 pm
The first plank of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s $5.5 billion budget plan that would provide a $50.5 million tax cut to the state’s lowest wage earners breezed through a Senate panel…
by - January 17, 2017 8:52 pm
Acxiom Corp. has announced another strategic partnership with an East Coast startup that was once led by a company disciple who left the Little Rock data marketer in early 2015….
by - January 17, 2017 8:44 pm
Legislators filed four bills Tuesday that would give advanced practice registered nurses in Arkansas more authority to serve as primary care providers. The bills were discussed in a press conference…
by - January 17, 2017 5:52 pm
The Arkansas House of Representatives passed two bills changing the state’s medical marijuana amendment Tuesday, including narrowly passing one change the bills’ sponsor said was necessary to ensure physicians would…
by - January 17, 2017 5:16 pm
A new report from WalletHub estimates U.S. consumers likely racked up an additional $80 billion in credit card debt at the end of 2016, putting outstanding balances dangerously close to…
by - January 17, 2017 5:16 pm
The Walton Family Foundation will give almost $9 million toward construction of TheatreSquared’s new venue, if the regional professional theater company satisfies a 1:2 fundraising challenge, the company announced on…
by - January 17, 2017 5:10 pm
The Walton Family Foundation will give almost $9 million toward construction of TheatreSquared’s new venue in Fayetteville, if the regional professional theater company satisfies a 1:2 fundraising challenge, the company…
by - January 17, 2017 5:07 pm
The Walton Family Foundation will give almost $9 million toward construction of TheatreSquared’s new venue in Fayetteville, if the regional professional theater company satisfies a 1:2 fundraising challenge, the company…
by - January 17, 2017 5:00 pm
A former employee at Bailey & Oliver Law Firm in Rogers is taking the law office and one of its co-owners to court over what she says is a violation…
by - January 17, 2017 4:46 pm
Taking a page from competitor Amazon’s playbook, Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores said Tuesday (Jan. 17) it plans to create 10,000 new retail jobs across the country this year when it opens…
by - January 17, 2017 2:30 pm
A bill requiring what formerly was the food stamp program to be used only for nutritious foods advanced through the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee Tuesday, as did…
by - January 17, 2017 8:48 am
Bank of the Ozarks, which vaulted to the top spot as Arkansas’ largest bank in 2016, ended the year with record fourth quarter and yearly earnings as total deposits and…
by - January 16, 2017 11:08 pm
Plains and Eastern Clean Line Holdings LLC officials have asked a federal court in eastern Arkansas to move a fall hearing date on a lawsuit protesting a $2 billion wind…
