by - October 28, 2018 1:52 pm
The combined sales tax revenue in Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale totaled $6.027 million, up 10% from a year ago. Revenue in the October report rebounded from a tepid 1.54%…
by - October 28, 2018 1:28 pm
The average human transportation speed in 1850 was four miles per hour. The average reached 24 miles per hour by 1950, and futurist Thomas Frey believes it will be 225…
by - October 28, 2018 11:03 am
While Arkansas’ unemployment rate has fallen to an all-time low of 3.5%, UA economist Mervin Jebaraj warns that there is a troubling trend of younger workers dropping out of the…
by - October 28, 2018 10:28 am
Arkansas Children’s CEO Marcy Doderer said one of the state’s largest health care systems will raise its minimum wage for entry level jobs to $14 per hour in the next…
by - October 26, 2018 7:07 pm
Walmart has agreed to a proposed settlement with the City of Pontiac, Mich., General Employees Retirement System that would put an end to fraud allegations in this case brought against…
by - October 26, 2018 4:51 pm
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, encouraged nearly 1,000 students from Northwest Arkansas high schools and Springdale-based Northwest Technical Institute (NWTI) to seek a technical education. Womack spoke to the students…
by - October 26, 2018 4:02 pm
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the Oct. 15 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - October 26, 2018 8:29 am
A real estate investment trust in Little Rock has closed on the purchase of a Springdale multifamily development for $28.9 million. BSR REIT, a publicly traded multifamily management company, is…
by - October 25, 2018 7:58 pm
Gas Pos, a new technology platform for the fuel business, announced Thursday (Oct. 25) that it has relocated its headquarters to North Little Rock from Birmingham, Ala. Gas Pos is…
by - October 25, 2018 6:33 pm
The United States Department of Agriculture intends to move its Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of Washington D.C. and Arkansas Agriculture Secretary…
by - October 25, 2018 5:47 pm
Jim Mote was an 18-year-old farm boy picking cotton in northeast Arkansas one morning when he saw a military truck approaching. It was September 1957, and Mote — one of…
by - October 25, 2018 5:07 pm
The good financial news continues for Van Buren-based USA Truck, which posted third quarter net income of $3.3 million, well ahead of the $409,000 in the same quarter of 2017….
by - October 25, 2018 4:37 pm
Arkansas State University was notified Wednesday (Oct. 24) by its food service provider, Sodexo, that one of its workers reported testing positive for the Hepatitis A virus, according to the…
by - October 25, 2018 4:02 pm
Electricity is perhaps the most critical component of our nation’s critical infrastructure. Emergency services, healthcare, transportation, industry and nearly all of our creature comforts rely on electricity. Naturally, each of…
by - October 25, 2018 3:21 pm
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded an agriculture project in Fayetteville known as Woolsey Incubator Farm with a $100,000 grant as part of the agency’s 2018 educational funding….
by - October 25, 2018 2:53 pm
Drones have been pegged as a better way to deliver final mile packaging and 7-Eleven convenience stores in select cities have been delivering hot coffee via drones for over a…
by - October 25, 2018 2:23 pm
Starting in early June, used vehicle prices started to rise, and Jonathan Smoke, chief economist of Cox Automotive, attributed the abnormal summer increase to tariffs. Smoke, who also compiles the…
by - October 25, 2018 2:21 pm
In late July, Tyson Foods lowered its fiscal year earnings guidance by an average of 65 cents per share. The company cited volatile meat prices relating to excess supplies of…
by - October 25, 2018 2:15 pm
Fayetteville radio station KUAF 91.3 FM, the flagship National Public Radio station for Northwest Arkansas, raised 95% of its target amount during its recent fall fundraiser. Kyle Kellams, the station’s…
by - October 25, 2018 1:51 pm
The number of Americans without a savings or checking account fell for the third consecutive year in 2017, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s biennial national survey of so-called…
