by - October 8, 2018 2:29 pm
Delta Cultural Center Director Kyle Miller was on a tour of the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C., when a tour guide began talking about African slaves who…
by - October 8, 2018 2:17 pm
Carriers should benefit from premium freight opportunities in the fourth quarter as they did last year, but leading up to peak shipping season, spot truckload demand fell from levels earlier…
by - October 8, 2018 1:05 pm
America’s Car-Mart announced Monday (Oct. 8) it has opened two dealerships, one in Montgomery, Ala., and the other in Bixby, Okla. The Bentonville-based buy here, pay here used car dealer…
by - October 7, 2018 6:47 pm
Portuguese artist Add Fuel and British artist Pref are among the seven artists named for the fourth year of the The Unexpected festival to be held primarily in downtown Fort…
by - October 7, 2018 4:49 pm
Darling Ingredients Inc. has acquired Triple-T Foods Arkansas Inc., which includes a wet pet food ingredient operation in Springdale and a cold storage operation in Rogers. The acquisition expands Darling’s…
by - October 7, 2018 4:32 pm
Arkansas rice farmers have fought unusual weather this year and the assumption was that yields and quality would suffer, but at this point in the harvest that hasn’t been the…
by - October 6, 2018 10:20 am
A representative for one of five companies awarded licenses to grow for Arkansas’ fledgling medical marijuana industry says the business will be ready to start cultivating and supplying the product…
by - October 6, 2018 10:14 am
When Arkansas voters took the step to legalize medical marijuana in the November 2016 election, the Natural State was hailed as an outlier for being the first state in the…
by - October 6, 2018 10:06 am
Scientists in Arkansas and around the world are “like kids in a candy store” because the gene-editing technology “CRISPR” has become “a game-changer for medicine, agriculture and the environment,” said…
by - October 5, 2018 7:54 pm
Tyson Foods veteran Noel White took over as CEO of the meat giant effective Sept. 30, after the abrupt resignation of Tom Hayes, who held that role for just under…
by - October 5, 2018 1:08 pm
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since former President Richard Nixon was in office as thousands of new workers continue to enter the workforce and job-hoppers seek…
by - October 5, 2018 12:57 pm
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season produced 13 named storms as of Oct. 5, including six hurricanes, and the only storm to impact oil and natural gas production has been Tropical…
by - October 5, 2018 11:04 am
The Arkansas Advanced Energy Association (AAEA) will welcome business leaders, utility executives, policy makers and regulators, and other industry stakeholders to its seventh annual meeting and policy conference Tuesday (Oct….
by - October 5, 2018 9:21 am
A new study from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Arkansas Economic Development Institute (AEDI) says the impact of casino gambling in Arkansas would be dramatic. The study found…
by - October 5, 2018 8:11 am
Plans to build the state’s first Duluth Trading Co. in Rogers continued forward with a recent land sale worth $895,000. Oppidan Investment Co., a property development firm in Minnesota representing…
by - October 4, 2018 8:45 pm
Conference committee negotiations over this year’s farm bill have reached an impasse because the ranking Senate Democrat wants to wait until December to complete them, Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs.,…
by - October 4, 2018 4:27 pm
Seeking out opportunities to be useful each day is one way Gov. Asa Hutchinson finds joy and satisfaction in his personal life, even while doing a very public job. Speaking…
by - October 4, 2018 3:06 pm
A grant from the Walton Family Foundation in Bentonville will allow the Northwest Arkansas Council to hire Joe Rollins for a newly created position focused on expanding business-education partnerships in…
by - October 4, 2018 3:04 pm
The “great beer drought of 2018” in Oklahoma – or at least in eastern Oklahoma – is over, and only time will tell how Oklahoma’s new alcohol law will change…
by - October 4, 2018 2:56 pm
Another result of Fort Smith voter approval of a school millage increase has emerged. The Walton Family Foundation has awarded a grant to the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce…
