by - November 6, 2012 12:32 pm
Job openings in the U.S. dropped to a five-month low in September, signaling uneven progress in the labor market may extend through year-end. The number of positions waiting to be…
by - November 6, 2012 12:20 pm
Retailers and grocery stores are among companies increasingly using dedicated-fleet services as a shortage of drivers constrains U.S. trucking capacity while the economy heals. J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and…
by - November 5, 2012 11:07 pm
In 2005, Kenny Tomlin gave life to an entrepreneurial idea when he created Rockfish Interactive. Seven years later, the small company has grown from a handful of employees to workforce…
by - November 5, 2012 10:50 pm
Fort Smith has certainly had its share of hardships in the past few years crowned off with the closure of the Whirlpool factory last summer. But area leaders have been…
by - November 5, 2012 8:44 pm
Jack Welch isn’t backing down. One day before the presidential election, the former General Electric Co. chief executive officer again suggested that government figures on employment are being manipulated for…
by - November 5, 2012 6:31 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors will spend Election Night (Nov. 6) addressing city business for one of the final times under its current configuration. City directors will know who…
by - November 5, 2012 6:08 pm
On Monday (Nov. 5) Bella Vista Mayor Frank Anderson said the traffic light at Oldham Drive and U.S. 71 was not relevant to the rezoning issue on the ballot. But…
by - November 5, 2012 4:30 pm
In 2005, Kenny Tomlin gave life to an entrepreneurial idea when he created Rockfish Interactive. Seven years later, the small company has grown from a handful of employees to workforce…
by - November 5, 2012 2:51 pm
A competition among young boosters of engineering, science and technology on Nov. 3 at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith paid off for Chaffin Junior High of Fort Smith…
by - November 5, 2012 1:22 pm
Building permit values in Fort Smith, Greenwood and Van Buren, combined to total $12.789 million in October, a steep drop from September’s $22.822 million total and also short of the…
by - November 5, 2012 11:14 am
The amount of campus construction at the University of Arkansas didn’t go unnoticed by the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, which recently honored the university with the Albert M. Byrnes Developer…
by - November 4, 2012 10:20 pm
Wal-Mart and PepsiCo were seen as humanitarian leaders among Hurricane Sandy victims in New York and New Jersey on Sunday (Nov. 4), as more than a dozen tractor trailer rigs…
by - November 4, 2012 5:49 pm
Arvest Bank is renewing its support of the Fort Smith Juniors (FSJ) Volleyball program, which will help the club move into a new practice facility at 4721 Zero St. in…
by - November 3, 2012 5:17 pm
The top five executives at J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. were granted base pay raises last week by the company’s executive compensation board. The new salaries were outlined in a…
by - November 3, 2012 11:50 am
BENTONVILLE — In a world filled with corporate giants, it might be easy to think that Northwest Arkansas is all about big business and that there’s no room for new…
by - November 2, 2012 5:26 pm
Centennial Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Home BancShares, Inc., announced today it has acquired all the deposits and substantially all the assets of Heritage Bank of Florida with offices located…
by - November 2, 2012 3:31 pm
Sergio Rial, chief financial officer at Cargill, will resign his position with the company at the end of November for personal reasons, Cargill announced Nov. 2. Rial plans to return…
by - November 2, 2012 2:42 pm
Improving higher education, deepening the Arkansas River and mobilizing the Fort Smith regional workforce to meet demands of site selectors, were top priorities announced at the First Friday Breakfast on…
by - November 2, 2012 2:09 pm
Continued gains in individual income tax collections have outpaced declines in sales and use tax collections to keep Arkansas’ overall tax revenue up 2.1% compared to the same period in…
by - November 2, 2012 1:59 pm
SPRINGDALE – Tyson Foods pledged help for the American Red Cross’ relief and recovery efforts for Hurricane Sandy with a corporate match of $100,000 of employee donations that is being…
