by - June 27, 2021 10:51 am
Fort Smith’s sales tax revenue stayed strong in May. Though it dipped a little from April, revenues are much higher than the same period in 2020. Sales tax revenues have…
by - June 26, 2021 10:11 am
Walmart has in recent years implemented a lot of technology to help store employees, but the latest investment in the Me@Walmart mobile app is the best thing local store employees…
by - June 26, 2021 10:07 am
The Arkansas Humanities Council has received $759,297 from the National Endowment of the Humanities to implement the America Rescue Plan grant program aimed at helping the survival of Arkansas’ critical…
by - June 26, 2021 9:46 am
Dr. Shannon Collier-Tenison has been named interim dean of the College of Business, Health, and Human Services at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, effective July 1. “I am…
by - June 25, 2021 4:48 pm
Pace Industries, an aluminum, zinc and magnesium die casting company, recently announced it has relocated its headquarters from Fayetteville to Novi, Mich., a Detroit suburb. According to a news release,…
by - June 24, 2021 5:34 pm
Jeff Teague has been appointed Citizens Bancshares chairman and CEO. Citizens Bancshares of Batesville, Inc. is the holding company for Citizens Bank of Batesville. In his role with the holding…
by - June 24, 2021 4:55 pm
The June report from Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale city offices indicates the cumulative sales tax revenue from April sales totaled $7.976 million, up 40.76% from a year ago. Revenue…
by - June 24, 2021 3:50 pm
A new study that shows a 26% rise in Arkansas children without health insurance garnered responses from the seven candidates running for governor in 2022. Earlier this week, the KIDS…
by - June 24, 2021 10:19 am
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include comments from Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Despite decades of effort and an expansion of Medicaid, Arkansas saw a dramatic surge in the…
by - June 24, 2021 7:57 am
Arkansas State University System General Counsel Brad Phelps said changes have been made in the Office of General Counsel. Katie Prescott, who served as senior associate counsel for the ASU…
by - June 23, 2021 5:49 pm
Arkansas didn’t have a public trucking academy – until today. The Arkansas Trucking Academy (ArkTA) is a consortium of ASU Three Rivers, UA Cossatot, UA Rich Mountain, and UA Hope/Texarkana….
by - June 23, 2021 4:19 pm
Big changes are being made at the Fort Smith Convention Center by the new management company, including the addition of a new full catering kitchen, which should be complete by…
by - June 23, 2021 2:52 pm
Charles E. Scharlau of Fayetteville, retired chairman, president and chief executive officer at Southwestern Energy Co., died June 18 at Fayetteville senior living provider Butterfield Trail Village. He was 94….
by - June 23, 2021 2:14 pm
Major floods in the southern Arkansas Delta in early June caused more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops, according to a preliminary estimate by experts with the…
by - June 23, 2021 1:47 pm
Fayetteville-based Lapovations LLC, a medical device company developing products to improve laparoscopy, announced Tuesday (June 22) receiving $100,000 from the Winrock International Validation Fund, a nonprofit fund focused on investing…
by - June 23, 2021 11:41 am
The Arkansas Department of Corrections has awarded the University of Arkansas at Little Rock a multi-year contract of more than $453,000 to study and assess the prison culture and climate…
by - June 23, 2021 11:31 am
Arkansas’ tourism industry recorded a year-over-year gain of 20,200 jobs in the May jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The food services segment within the sector posted…
by - June 22, 2021 10:02 pm
Even with a five-year extension for needed sewer improvement work in Fort Smith, completion of the work required by a federal consent decree could lead to significant sewer rate increase…
by - June 22, 2021 4:08 pm
Arkansas Community Foundation and the Arkansas Black Philanthropy Collaborative announced Tuesday (June 22) that 40 grants from the Building Black Communities Fund have been awarded to Black-led and Black-serving nonprofit…
by - June 22, 2021 4:01 pm
As the statewide Campaign for a Healthier Tomorrow comes to a close later this month, Arkansas Children’s Foundation received a $1 million gift from Melanie and Edwin Wells to establish…
