by - September 23, 2020 6:05 pm
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the Natural State and since mid-September the transmission rate in Northeast Arkansas has been the highest in the state, according to the Arkansas…
by - September 23, 2020 5:05 pm
Hopes that lower COVID-19 case numbers in recent days would be a trend were dashed Wednesday (Sept. 23) when the Arkansas Department of Health reported 874 new cases and 190…
by - September 23, 2020 4:47 pm
Sixty-nine percent of likely Arkansas voters favor a half-cent sales tax for roads that will be on the November ballot, according to a poll released by Gov. Asa Hutchinson Sept….
by - September 23, 2020 1:59 pm
Walmart will test drone deliveries of COVID-19 home test kits in cooperation with Quest Diagnostics and DroneUp in Las Vegas and Cheektowago, N.Y., beginning in early October. Tom Ward, senior…
by - September 23, 2020 1:08 pm
Two Northwest Arkansas companies have formed a partnership to offer products and services for suppliers who do business with Walmart Inc. SupplyPike Inc., a tech company based in Fayetteville, and…
by - September 23, 2020 12:39 pm
First National Bank of NWA opened its new Fayetteville banking office to customers Sept. 21. The roughly 8,500-square-foot building is on Steele Boulevard, south of JJ’s Beer Garden & Brewing…
by - September 23, 2020 11:03 am
The Arkansas Insurance Department has approved individual health insurance rate increases ranging from 2.9% for Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield to 4.9% for Ambetter. Average rate increases, with the…
by - September 23, 2020 10:56 am
The Walton Family Foundation is distributing $500,000 to Little Rock nonprofit organizations based on the results of a poll showing a need for helping students in specific areas, providing tutoring,…
by - September 22, 2020 4:05 pm
Consumers spent more money in July as stimulus checks hit their bank accounts and retail began to reopen. The four largest cities in Northwest Arkansas reported a combined 14.95% jump…
by - September 22, 2020 3:49 pm
More testing, more flu shots and improved contact tracing are part of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s “winter strategy” to battle COVID-19, and how he hopes to reverse a trend that has…
by - September 22, 2020 2:25 pm
Arkansas State Forester Joe Fox was selected as President of the National Association of State Foresters (NASF), a group of national, state and territorial foresters. As Arkansas’s State Forester, Fox…
by - September 22, 2020 2:22 pm
Arkansas is the top rice producing state in the country and several mills around the state made a significant donation Tuesday (Sept. 22) to help the impoverished. The Arkansas rice…
by - September 22, 2020 2:19 pm
As veterans of World War II returned to civilian life and used the G.I. Bill to resume their education, faculty members at then-Arkansas State College worked to meet these students’…
by - September 22, 2020 1:24 pm
Standard Lithium started operations Monday (Sept. 21) at the company’s Arkansas LiSTR Direct Lithium Extraction facility in El Dorado with a virtual ribbon-cutting and video walk-through tour of the plant….
by - September 22, 2020 11:45 am
During the past six months, the world has become infinitely more familiar with charts and graphs. COVID-19 and its associated “curves” and “spikes” are prominent conversation points in our daily…
by - September 22, 2020 10:50 am
It’s a game-changer, part two. That’s the claim by Kyle Parker, CEO of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE), about buying Golden Living’s former headquarters building in Fort Smith…
by - September 21, 2020 11:02 pm
To recognize that October being “Cyber Security Awareness Month,” Mainstream Technologies and Talk Business & Politics will host a series of free webinars to coincide with the national awareness effort….
by - September 21, 2020 5:53 pm
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making available another $14 billion to eligible farmers and ranchers under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, or CFAP, and for the first time, rice,…
by - September 21, 2020 5:52 pm
Little Rock-based Windstream Holdings has finalized its debt restructuring out of bankruptcy, emerged as a privately-held company, and redesigned its corporate logo. The communications and software company said it has…
by - September 21, 2020 5:49 pm
Deaths, hospitalizations, and ventilator use rose by double-digit numbers, according to data posted Monday (Sept. 21) by the Arkansas Department of Health. Total deaths were 1,197 as of Monday, with…
