by December 19, 2023 9:30 am
-Arkansas peanut crop could set yield records in 2023
Southern blight was an issue for Arkansas peanut growers this year but if projections hold, it will be the best harvest in a decade. The peanut crop got off to…
by December 19, 2023 9:30 am
-Southern blight was an issue for Arkansas peanut growers this year but if projections hold, it will be the best harvest in a decade. The peanut crop got off to…
by December 19, 2023 8:55 am
-While mass retailers like Walmart and specialty retailers like Ulta Beauty have worked to become omnichannel by offering a unified shopping experience that bridges digital and physical commerce, the traditional…
by December 18, 2023 5:15 pm
-The U.S. Marshals Museum and the U.S. Marshals Museum Foundation announced new board leadership Monday (Dec. 18) as the museum heads into its first full year of being open to…
by December 18, 2023 3:56 pm
-Democrat Printing and Lithographing, Co. (DP&L) on Monday (Dec. 18) announced it will enter a strategic partnership with EP Graphics of Berne, Indiana. DP&L, founded in 1871, is a commercial…
by December 18, 2023 3:44 pm
-As the Fort Smith Board of Directors plans for the 2024 operating budget, directors discussed the city’s $150,000 investment in 64.6 Downtown, with members saying they hoped the investment would…
by December 18, 2023 2:59 pm
-An estimated 2 million people will drive in and around Arkansas on April 8, 2024, to see the total solar eclipse. Such movement will result in an estimated 700,000 extra…
by December 18, 2023 12:34 pm
-Poultry producers and consumers experienced myriad problems in 2022 that led to higher prices and shortages in some instances. This year much of the market stabilized and it led to…
by December 18, 2023 6:35 am
-U.S. Steel, which owns Big River Steel and other operations in Northeast Arkansas, is being acquired by Tokyo-based Nippon Steel Corp. in a $14.1 billion deal, the companies announced Monday…
by December 17, 2023 9:52 am
-Mervin Jebaraj, economist with the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business, offers a gymnastics analogy for the Federal Reserve Bank’s handling of the tumultuous economy. Observers have wondered if…
by December 17, 2023 9:12 am
-The Walton Family Whole Health & Fitness will open Jan. 12 at 1400 S.E. Fifth St. in Bentonville. A company spokeswoman confirmed the date on Thursday (Dec. 14). The fitness…
by December 17, 2023 9:05 am
-State Sen. Missy Irvin, R-Mountain View, wants a stronger state focus on a physician shortage issue that she says threatens the health of rural Arkansans. Irvin, who chairs the Senate…
by December 17, 2023 8:47 am
-The second-highest number of Americans are expected to travel over the holidays amid the lowest gas prices in nearly a year, according to AAA. Over the holidays, 115.2 million people…
by December 17, 2023 8:44 am
-With holiday shopping well underway, retailers large and small continue to wrestle with shipping options, return policies and overcoming cart abandonment from online shoppers. A new survey from shipping platform…
by December 15, 2023 4:07 pm
-Officials with the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) and have officially opened another large commercial space in the Heritage Village area adjacent to the Fort Smith-based osteopathic college. Heritage…
by December 15, 2023 10:16 am
-Resilience in most key economic factors resulted in Arkansas and the state’s four top metro areas continuing positive trends, with broad job gains being a primary growth driver, according to…
by December 15, 2023 8:16 am
-Little Rock-based solar power developer Scenic Hill Solar announced Thursday (Dec. 14) that four U.S-based solar equipment manufacturers have joined an initiative to encourage the manufacturing of American-made array components….
by December 14, 2023 3:38 pm
-With fighter jets returning to Fort Smith next year, area home builders know they must be more selective about materials and design to mitigate sound transmission in certain areas of…
by December 14, 2023 11:53 am
-Heartland Whole Health Institute (HWHI) announced a name and strategy update Thursday (Dec. 14) and the launch of a new program. Heartland Whole Health Institute, formerly Whole Health Institute, is…
by December 14, 2023 11:00 am
-A private development group is closer to bringing another cycling amenity to Benton County. On Dec. 5, Bentonville city planners granted a conditional use permit to Bentonville developer Blue Crane…
by December 14, 2023 10:22 am
-Poultry producers and hunters in Northeast Arkansas are being warned that the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPIA) bird flu has now been detected in wild geese populations, according to the…