by - July 16, 2019 10:25 am
The University of Arkansas will use a $4.63 million award from the National Science Foundation to establish a program to recruit, educate and train cybersecurity professionals. The UA announced Tuesday…
by - July 15, 2019 7:03 pm
Electric utility Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), a company of Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power, announced Monday (July 15) it will add 810 megawatts of wind energy by 2022 as…
by - July 15, 2019 6:45 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services missed analyst expectations for profit in the second quarter as earnings fell 11.9% while meeting expectations for revenue, which rose 6% from the same period in…
by - July 15, 2019 6:34 pm
A day nearly two years in the making arrived Monday (July 15) in Northwest Arkansas. Several hundred people gathered inside the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art…
by - July 15, 2019 5:25 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will make funding for the Criminal Justice Institute’s Center for School Safety a permanent line item in the state budget, he announced at the Institute’s Arkansas Safe…
by - July 15, 2019 9:57 am
Douglas Hutchings, CEO and co-founder of Fayetteville solar tech startup Picasolar Inc., has been named director of the nonprofit Arkansas Research Alliance’s (ARA) ARA Academy of Scholars & Fellows. The…
by - July 14, 2019 8:03 pm
Batesville-based Citizens Bank is adding a new location in Monticello. Once complete, the new financial center will be located at 236 Highway 425 North and will merge the employees and…
by - July 14, 2019 7:54 pm
Dr. Cliff Jones, former vice chancellor for learning and instruction at ASU Mid-South, has been named deputy director of the Arkansas State University Delta Center for Economic Development, according to…
by - July 14, 2019 7:51 pm
A new exhibit at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock looks at the impact humans have on the oceans and marine life. More than 20 giant sea life sculptures…
by - July 14, 2019 11:26 am
Alcohol at Razorback Stadium, ranking the region’s top CEOs and the prospect of a Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. If you want opinions from residents of Benton and Washington counties, just…
by - July 13, 2019 9:36 pm
Arkansas’ rice crop, delayed by a wet spring and bludgeoned by high heat, is now facing a triple threat from Tropical Storm Barry, whose remnants are expected to drop heavy…
by - July 12, 2019 9:30 am
Amazon may have started Prime Day in 2015, a summer equivalent to Black Friday, but it’s clear nearly all major online retailers including Walmart, Target, Kohl’s and Best Buy are…
by - July 11, 2019 8:40 pm
Small businesses can again apply for federal grant assistance through the city of Jonesboro’s Microenterprise Business Accelerator. As part of Jonesboro’s Community Development Block Grant funding from the U.S. Department…
by - July 11, 2019 5:01 pm
Traffic out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport – up almost 5% in June – is on track to post a fourth year of consecutive gains after a sudden drop…
by - July 11, 2019 3:43 pm
It’s been less than a month since Walmart announced the $282.7 million settlement to a nearly eight-year probe by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange…
by - July 11, 2019 12:47 pm
Bentonville-based Walton Family Foundation is backing a new regional arts service organization in Northwest Arkansas. The goal of the organization is to “expand access to arts, culture and heritage” in…
by - July 11, 2019 11:52 am
Utility-scale battery storage units, which are those with at least 1 megawatt of power capacity, are a newer electric power resource, and their use has risen recently. The operating capacity…
by - July 11, 2019 6:20 am
The Little Rock Technology Park Authority made a soft pitch to a local Centennial Bank-led banking consortium to support the second phase of the city’s multi-stage tech village once a…
by - July 10, 2019 10:04 pm
The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC) at Arkansas State University has been recognized as the small business development center of the year by the U.S. Small Business…
by - July 10, 2019 10:01 pm
The Coston Fine Arts Center is closer to becoming a reality in Osceola. The project has received numerous grants and in-kind labor to move forward. The latest round of funding…
