by - January 8, 2020 9:46 pm
Community bankers, startup supporters and investors, and governmental leaders at all levels attended the kickoff of a new round of financial technology startups at downtown Little Rock’s Venture Center on…
by - January 8, 2020 7:32 pm
Senior Vice President of local media at WVUE New Orleans Brad Streit will retire Feb. 12, 2020. General Manager Tim Ingram will be promoted to Senior Vice President of local…
by - January 8, 2020 3:35 pm
Building activity in the Fort Smith region ended 2019 ahead of 2018 thanks to a flurry of building in Fort Smith in the final 30 days of the year. The…
by - January 8, 2020 3:10 pm
A familiar name in Benton County’s culinary scene has taken ownership of a familiar Bentonville restaurant. Bentonville restaurateur Carl Garrett and his wife, Lindie, recently acquired The Station Café at…
by - January 8, 2020 2:06 pm
Arkansas-based Monde Group broke ground Wednesday (Jan. 8) on the Esplanade District, a 41-acre mixed-use neighborhood development in North Little Rock along the Arkansas River. It is located adjacent to…
by - January 8, 2020 12:11 pm
The Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame plans to induct six individuals for their contribution to the state’s largest industry. Induction ceremonies for Class XXXIII will be held Friday, March 6…
by - January 8, 2020 11:55 am
About 200 farmers, consultants and other agriculture industry professionals attended the 64th annual Tri-State Soybean Forum last week, taking stock of both the good and bad in soybean production in…
by - January 8, 2020 11:52 am
Innovation is a must for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. They continually face brutal competition from disruptive brands and a massive effort from retailers growing their private branded businesses. Nielsen…
by - January 8, 2020 9:05 am
For the first time in its history, Black River Technical College has a mascot. On Monday (Jan.6), Hadley Rose, BRTC Student Government Association (SGA) president announced that BRTC will be…
by - January 7, 2020 7:16 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Jan. 7) approved an ordinance to make a portion of Fort Chaffee Boulevard – a section also part of legal action –…
by - January 7, 2020 7:14 pm
Alcoa Corp. has agreed to sell its Arkansas waste treatment facility in Gum Springs (Clark County) to Veolia ES Technical Solutions (VTS) in a transaction expected to close in the…
by - January 7, 2020 4:27 pm
The Arkansas Farmer’s Industrial Hemp Conference, a two-day meeting designed to give farmers the pros and cons of adding industrial hemp to their crop rotation will be held Feb. 14…
by - January 7, 2020 2:46 pm
Former Arkansas Speaker of the House and current Regional President for Centennial Bank in Jonesboro Davy Carter has been selected to serve as a Federal Reserve Bank branch director in…
by - January 7, 2020 2:14 pm
The Fort Smith metro jobless rate was 3.4% in November, up from 3.3% in November 2018, with the region seeing only marginal changes in the size of the available workforce…
by - January 7, 2020 1:04 pm
Walmart lost its appeal in the Ninth Circuit on Monday (Jan. 6) when appellate court judges affirmed a $54.6 million award to Walmart truck drivers in California. The suit involved…
by - January 7, 2020 9:50 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday (Jan. 6) announced his support for the Trump Administration’s ban on certain flavored e-cigarettes and recent federal legislation increasing the minimum age to 21 to…
by - January 6, 2020 8:35 pm
Cotton yields might not be as good as projected during the 2019 growing season, but Bill Robertson, extension cotton agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, thinks…
by - January 6, 2020 8:31 pm
The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) has hired Sara Bradley as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bradley is a certified public accountant with decades of finance experience with large health…
by - January 6, 2020 8:24 pm
Janet R. Moore, a 40-year banking veteran, has joined Stone Bank as Chief Operations Officer. She was most recently chief operations officer and executive vice president with Citizens Bank in Batesville….
by - January 6, 2020 5:09 pm
Gift cards remain one of the most popular holiday purchases and yet Americans left $1 billion unspent on gift cards last year, according to the National Retail Federation. A public…
