by - July 15, 2021 2:20 pm
Arkansas State University Delta Center for Economic Development, Arkansas Economic Development Institute, and the Central Arkansas Planning and Development District are partnering to offer a COVID-19 Recovery and Resiliency Workshop…
by - July 15, 2021 2:00 pm
Thirty students from the University of Central Arkansas have been signed to “Name, Image and Likeness” (NIL) agreements with the Conway Convention & Visitors Bureau, the group announced Thursday (July…
by - July 15, 2021 12:20 pm
Destinations International has announced the new 2021-2022 association Board of Directors and foundation Board of Trustees. Gretchen Hall, CDME, president and CEO of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau,…
by - July 15, 2021 9:09 am
Home BancShares, the parent company of Centennial Bank, posted second quarter net income of $79.1 million, up 26% from the $62.8 million in the same quarter of 2020. The gain,…
by - July 15, 2021 8:02 am
A half-cent sales tax that funds the Newport Economic Development Commission was overwhelmingly passed Tuesday night (July 13) by city voters. In unofficial results, the tax renewal passed 421-161, a…
by - July 15, 2021 7:58 am
Bentonville-based corrugated packaging company Rapid recently rebranded from Rapid Prototypes and moved into a 14,000-square-foot warehouse in Tontitown. Including the existing 25,000-square-foot facility on Walton Boulevard in Bentonville, the company’s…
by - July 14, 2021 6:32 pm
Richard Turner has been named president and CEO of Fort Smith-based Umarex USA, the sport shooting industry supplier that has operated in the area since 2006. The company is a…
by - July 14, 2021 3:01 pm
Walmart said Wednesday (July 14) it plans to place Symbotic robotic technology in 25 of its 42 regional distribution centers (RDC’s). The retail giant did not disclose the cost but…
by - July 14, 2021 1:58 pm
Arkansas is in the midst of a COVID-19 surge due to the much more contagious Delta variant, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson told community members in Forrest City Tuesday evening (July…
by - July 14, 2021 1:09 pm
The University of Arkansas Press has published hundreds of books, catalogs and journals since it was established in 1980 as the university’s publishing arm. The press, celebrating an extended 40th…
by - July 14, 2021 12:12 pm
Minnesota-based Artspace Projects, a nonprofit real estate developer and property manager, announced a $16 million workforce housing development Wednesday (July 14) for an approximately one-acre site near the Momentary tourist…
by - July 14, 2021 11:22 am
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.36 million grant to researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to develop a non-invasive means of detecting weaknesses…
by - July 14, 2021 10:37 am
Dr. Mario Wallace will lead “Small Business Strategies for Success,” a new online series hosted by the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center in partnership with Remix Ideas and…
by - July 14, 2021 10:15 am
The University of Arkansas announced Wednesday (July 14) that Toby Teeter would be the first director of a new initiative in Bentonville called the Collaborative. In a news release, the…
by - July 13, 2021 10:48 pm
In April, leaders from around the globe gathered for a virtual climate summit. During the highly anticipated event, figures from both sides of the aisle painted a bleak future without…
by - July 13, 2021 10:42 pm
Home BancShares, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Centennial Bank, announced Tuesday (July 13) the appointment of Audra Foster as Director of Corporate Social Responsibility. “We are proud to announce our…
by - July 13, 2021 2:59 pm
The Federal Reserve estimated consumer prices will jump 3.4% in the fourth quarter compared to last year. Retail food and consumable prices are up between 8% and 9% compared with…
by - July 13, 2021 2:40 pm
Fort Smith Public Schools Peak Innovation Center is coming in $6.6 million over budget with $2.57 million of that unfunded, Shawn Shaffer, FSPS facilities supervisor told the FSPS school board…
by - July 13, 2021 12:28 pm
A number of factors combined to produce what E.C. Barton and Co., commodity buyer Matt Gordon called a perfect storm around the price and availability of building materials, a storm…
by - July 13, 2021 11:38 am
Crude oil production rose in one major oil-producing region last year as the number of drilled but uncompleted wells hit a peak in the United States in June 2020, according…
