by - July 6, 2011 11:52 am
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday (July 6) in favor of Arkansas Best Corp., which returns the company’s lawsuit against YRC and the Teamsters back to a federal…
by - July 5, 2011 10:45 am
Arkansas tax collections reversed a negative two-year slide in the 2011 fiscal year, with collections up 4.5% in the July 2010-June 2011 period. State tax collections for fiscal year 2011…
by - July 5, 2011 9:04 am
Businesses large and small should take time to define core passions and cultures.
by - June 30, 2011 6:08 pm
Share prices of nine of 15 Arkansas-based companies fell in the first half of 2011, an unfortunate majority considering that the three major stock market indices recorded gains in the…
by - June 30, 2011 5:30 pm
Sparks Health System employees formally and destructively began on Thursday (June 30) the $17 million project to build a modern surgery suite. Construction of 10 “smart” operating rooms in the…
by - June 30, 2011 11:54 am
A consumer confidence report released Wednesday (June 29) by the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith mirrors the results in results released earlier in June by The City Wire and…
by - June 30, 2011 10:52 am
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] Talk Business has learned that Yarnell’s Ice Cream Co., the iconic…
by - June 29, 2011 2:05 pm
Around 25 area business and civic leaders gathered Wednesday morning (June 29) at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith to discuss the future — or if it should have…
by - June 29, 2011 1:00 pm
The Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas metro areas were the only Arkansas regions to see a May jobless rate decline compared to a year earlier. Fort Smith’s metro jobless rate…
by - June 29, 2011 11:24 am
story by Aric Mitchell [email protected] Fort Smith Regional Airport commissioners moved forward on the west corporate taxiway project phase II Tuesday night at their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. On June…
by - June 27, 2011 5:47 pm
In addition to closing post offices and consolidating mail facilities around the country as part of cost-cutting measures, the U.S. Postal Service is now asking Congress for relief from $5.5…
by - June 27, 2011 4:18 pm
The May tonnage report from the American Trucking Associations provides another uncomfortable sign about the pace of national economic recovery. May’s seasonally adjusted Truck Tonnage Index dipped 2.3%, after falling…
by - June 27, 2011 3:34 pm
The value of homes sold in the Fort Smith area is down almost $19 million in the first five months of 2011, continuing a trend in which 2010 marked the…
by - June 27, 2011 10:41 am
The Movie Lounge website succinctly offers four basic promises. “Fine. Food. Film.” And that the opening is “Coming Soon,” with soon being sometime before Thanksgiving. “Our plans are well along…
by - June 27, 2011 10:38 am
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] Poultry processor Simmons Foods Inc. will cut 223 jobs at a…
by - June 24, 2011 4:15 pm
story info submitted by the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith A $1 million gift to the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Foundation from Baldor has been given in…
by - June 24, 2011 10:00 am
The U.S. GDP grew 1.9% in the first quarter of 2011, down from the 3.1% during the fourth quarter of 2010 and considerably lower than the 3.7% growth in the…
by - June 24, 2011 9:04 am
The May 2011 Numbers by the Wire report show improvements in area sales and hospitality tax collections, albeit at a slow pace thanks to the negative effect of higher fuel…
by - June 23, 2011 5:20 pm
The good news for the Fort Smith city budget is that the May sales tax collection report showed gains of the city’s 1% collections and the city’s portion of the…
by - June 23, 2011 12:41 pm
Editor’s note: Story updated with changes throughout. Rheem announced Thursday (June 23) the company will move 250 jobs from Fort Smith to an expanded manufacturing plant in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,…
