by - June 30, 2015 9:07 am
Allison Munn with our content partner, KAIT Ch. 8, reports: High temperatures have affected some Region 8 businesses, forcing them to close up shop during the hottest hours of the…
by - June 30, 2015 8:39 am
The Little Rock Port Authority board of directors elected Chris Mathews as chairman for a second consecutive year. Mathews was first appointed to the Little Rock Port Authority in the…
by - June 29, 2015 9:34 pm
In his Barcamp Little Rock session last weekend, Chad Williamson of Noble Impact shared the power of storytelling. In doing so, he relayed a couple of stories from his own…
by - June 29, 2015 9:02 pm
EquityNet has operated a crowdfunding platform since 2005 and company leaders say the Fayetteville-based firm is poised to see an explosion of opportunity in the near future.
by - June 29, 2015 8:01 pm
A proposal for a five-year, one-cent sales tax to re-open Crittenden Regional Hospital will be on the ballot next month. Crittenden County residents will head to the polls July 14…
by - June 29, 2015 7:56 pm
Officials were hoping for only a slight increase when details of sales tax revenues for Jonesboro and Craighead County were released Friday. Their hopes were supported with figures as both…
by - June 29, 2015 7:44 pm
President Obama’s broad agenda to regulate dirty air emissions suffered a setback on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should have considered…
by - June 29, 2015 7:27 pm
Arkansas should continue its efforts to establish a state-based insurance exchange, the executive director of the state’s Health Insurance Marketplace said, even though a recent Supreme Court ruling makes it less necessary to do so.
by - June 29, 2015 5:02 pm
The two building sectors across Northwest Arkansas moved in different directions last month as new residential and new commercial permits issued by the region’s four largest cities totaled $57.693 million,…
by - June 29, 2015 4:46 pm
Collections of Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax during the first four months of 2015 totaled $4.247 million, up 7.25% compared to the same period in 2014. Collections for each of the…
by - June 29, 2015 3:59 pm
Hospitality tax collections in the Fort Smith area are showing gains after getting off to a slow start for 2015. The tourism industry is doing well statewide, with collections of…
by - June 29, 2015 1:32 pm
A Pentagon official confirmed over the weekend that a decision on the $30 billion award for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) project remains on schedule for an award in the…
by - June 29, 2015 1:00 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province Monday, a day before the province was to announce the opening of a trade office in Bentonville….
by - June 29, 2015 12:02 pm
Beef loving consumers continue to shell out more for hamburgers and steaks as retail fresh beef prices rise higher this summer, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data….
by - June 29, 2015 11:16 am
Karen O’Donohoe has been named director of the Occupational and Life Skills program at NorthWest Arkansas Community College. The Occupational and Life Skills program (commonly referred to as OLS®…
by - June 29, 2015 7:05 am
The Supreme Court issued two rulings last week. In one, they ended a multi-year lawsuit challenging the federal government’s establishment of a healthcare exchange, which provide insurance subsidies to low-income…
by - June 29, 2015 6:21 am
A Pentagon official confirmed over the weekend that a decision on the $30 billion award for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) project remains on schedule for an award in the fiscal fourth quarter, which for the U.S. military concludes at the end of September.
by - June 29, 2015 6:09 am
Editor’s note: Each Monday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Money Talk,” a wrap-up of banking and financial news in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here….
by - June 29, 2015 5:47 am
Editor’s note: Guest columnist Tommy Foltz, a long-time resident of Little Rock, is Executive Vice-President of the Houston-based Consumer Energy Alliance, which has a nationwide network of 400,000 individual consumers…
by - June 28, 2015 9:31 am
After a week in a teen entrepreneurship boot camp, John David Halaway said the experience was a good one to help him manage his own company. What does he do and where is he taking his business?
