by - April 30, 2018 11:13 am
As Arkansas banks enter 2018 with a record $90 billion in assets, the way consumers access their banking accounts and other financial resources is rapidly changing as mobile banking and…
by - April 30, 2018 10:55 am
Donna Townsell has been named director of investor relations for Conway-based Home BancShares, the parent company of Centennial Bank. Townsell was promoted from her role as director of marketing. “Donna…
by - April 30, 2018 10:49 am
Electric cooperatives in Arkansas contributed $1.76 billion annually to the state, according to an economic impact study. The cooperatives recently released a study showing the economic impact the cooperatives have…
by - April 29, 2018 6:38 pm
Methodist Village Senior Living (MVSL) has raised $2.8 million of the $4 million target for phase one of its life plan community expansion in Fort Smith at its Euper Lane…
by - April 29, 2018 2:38 pm
Community leaders and educators helped raise money for scholarships at the NorthWest Arkansas Community College Foundation’s Plant a Seed Fundraiser held at Brightwater in Bentonville on Friday (April 27). Dr….
by - April 29, 2018 10:04 am
Despite a steady unemployment number of 3.8%, a University of Arkansas economist says there are underlying fundamentals that need to improve to maintain Arkansas’ continued jobs momentum. Economist Mervin Jebaraj,…
by - April 29, 2018 10:04 am
Arkansas Economic Development Commission Executive Director Mike Preston is hopeful a new spinoff of last year’s federal tax cut bill could help up to 85 impoverished communities across the state….
by - April 27, 2018 5:10 pm
Mike Stock, the president and CEO of QualChoice, and two other executive leaders are retiring effective June 29, the company announced Friday (April 27). Chief Financial Officer Randall Crow will…
by - April 27, 2018 1:13 pm
The United States exported almost 1.4 billion gallons of fuel ethanol in 2017, and the previous record level of the exports was 1.2 billion gallons in 2011, according to the…
by - April 27, 2018 12:23 pm
CHI St. Vincent broke ground Friday (April 27) on a $17 million expansion of its Arkansas Neuroscience Institute. The new facility is being built on the campus of CHI St….
by - April 27, 2018 12:16 pm
Margaret Sova McCabe, professor at the University of New Hampshire School Of Law, has been named dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law. Her hiring is effective July…
by - April 27, 2018 10:49 am
Lisa Ray moved from California to Northwest Arkansas in 1988, and met and married her husband that same year. The newlyweds did something else that year. “We put together a…
by - April 27, 2018 10:07 am
The nation’s economy fell in the first quarter of 2018 as weak consumer spending and fewer housing purchases pushed real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to the lowest level in…
by - April 27, 2018 9:13 am
Springdale-based healthcare organization Northwest Health is planning to build a standalone emergency room on South Shiloh Drive in Fayetteville — the first redevelopment on the former site of the Clarion…
by - April 26, 2018 9:41 pm
The Arkansas Department of Transportation has scrapped two proposed designs for the Interstate 49 interchange at U.S. Highway 62, or Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, in Fayetteville after receiving comments…
by - April 26, 2018 8:04 pm
A Pulaski County circuit court judge late Thursday (April 26) declared a Voter ID bill overwhelmingly approved by the General Assembly in 2017 as unconstitutional and entered a preliminary injunction…
by - April 26, 2018 7:37 pm
Expanded access to broadband internet is one of the key development issues in the eight state region that is part of the Delta Regional Authority’s coverage area, new DRA federal…
by - April 26, 2018 5:12 pm
Thanks largely to a jump in operating income from its logistics division, Van Buren-based USA Truck reported first quarter income of $1.107 million, much better than the $4.073 million loss…
by - April 26, 2018 4:24 pm
German discount grocery chain Aldi Inc. has purchased land in Bentonville to open a new store. The company paid $901,658 for two lots totaling 2.72 acres near the northwest corner…
by - April 26, 2018 3:46 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson appointed the president of a cotton-oil mill and a lifelong farmer to Arkansas’s State Plant Board on Thursday (April 26). John Fricke of Bryant will represent fertilizer and…
