by - June 14, 2018 6:31 pm
Will Fort Smith Public Schools ever build a third high school, and if so, will it be at Chaffee Crossing? According to Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) board member Paul…
by - June 14, 2018 5:21 pm
Springdale-based meat giant Tyson Foods will continue to invest into downtown Springdale after CEO Tom Hayes announced plans to build a manufacturing and automation technology center, southwest of the company’s…
by - June 14, 2018 4:57 pm
Part of the more than $3.65 million in ongoing work by Phoenix Investors to further renovate the former Whirlpool manufacturing plant in Fort Smith could make way for a warehouse/distribution…
by - June 14, 2018 4:44 pm
City and state leaders took part Thursday (June 14) in a panel discussion about the growth of Bentonville and how that impacts its business community. The event was the 2018…
by - June 14, 2018 4:12 pm
Bob Purvis is home. After a career spanning close to 50 years in marketing and promotion, including 20 years as the executive director of the Eureka Springs Advertising and Promotion…
by - June 14, 2018 3:55 pm
University of Arkansas alumnus John Ed Anthony and his wife, Isabel, are donating $7.5 million to the University of Arkansas to support construction of a new $15 million materials innovation…
by - June 14, 2018 11:28 am
The Federal Open Market Committee increased the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to between 1.75% and 2%. The committee met June 12-13, and the…
by - June 13, 2018 11:10 pm
The Little Rock Technology Park Authority spent nearly three hours on Wednesday (June 13) hearing proposals from four Central Arkansas construction firms competing to build the second phase of the…
by - June 13, 2018 5:10 pm
The Northeast Arkansas Regional Intermodal Authority will launch an economic development planning project designed to refine the top targeted business and industry targets for the region but as well as…
by - June 13, 2018 4:55 pm
Fort Smith metro home sales are trending up for the first five months of 2018 with Sebastian and Crawford counties seeing year-to-date gains of 17.31% and 8.02% in sales volume,…
by - June 13, 2018 4:36 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) continues to make progress toward a $20 million project to renovate and expand the terminal as construction on other projects, such as the parking deck,…
by - June 13, 2018 4:27 pm
The Arkansas Rice Research Promotion Board has dedicated $4 million toward the construction of a rice research center in Poinsett County, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture spokesman Ryan…
by - June 13, 2018 4:05 pm
The U.S. Census Bureau has extended the deadline for the 2017 economic census, the five-year survey of nearly 3.7 million U.S. businesses and their impact on the nation’s economy. The…
by - June 13, 2018 3:51 pm
Healthcare organization Mercy will allow 5,336 employees in Arkansas to take up to two weeks of paid parental leave as it responds to a 2017 employee survey on benefits and…
by - June 13, 2018 3:41 pm
Warren Brown of Virginia and Casey Millspaugh of Fort Smith were among the more than 450 business owners welcomed by Walmart to its Bentonville home office Wednesday (June 13) for…
by - June 13, 2018 11:51 am
A business license application has been filed with the city of Fort Smith for 7601 Rogers Ave., the former site of the MovieLounge. According to the city’s planning and zoning…
by - June 12, 2018 7:42 pm
More than 450 hopeful entrepreneurs began streaming into Bentonville on Tuesday (June 12) from 46 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia for Walmart’s “Open Call.” This year, Walmart…
by - June 12, 2018 7:13 pm
Staff leaders with the U.S. Marshals Museum told the museum’s board they were able to reduce the budget for the planned facility and the amount to raise is now down…
by - June 12, 2018 4:28 pm
A Missouri nonprofit that accrued more than $80 million in net income and over $180 million in annual revenues could possibly lose its tax-exempt status and access to government funds…
by - June 12, 2018 3:19 pm
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), rose 0.2% in May on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.2% in April. On Tuesday (June 12), the Bureau of…
