by - October 3, 2017 9:45 am
Fayetteville will collaborate with Ozarks Electric Cooperative on a pilot program to install LED bulbs in streetlights, as part of the city’s efforts to decrease energy consumption, according to a…
by - October 3, 2017 9:17 am
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology will host the 22nd annual Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Conference on Information Quality….
by - October 2, 2017 9:21 pm
Northeast Arkansas’ hub city has a new chief financial officer. Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin selected Bill Reznicek on Monday as the city’s next CFO. A certified public accountant, Reznicek has…
by - October 2, 2017 8:53 pm
Wal-Mart Stores continues to invest in growing its global footprint, from tweaking it’s first convenience store in Bentonville to a multimillion dollar investment going into its lackluster Brazilian business, and…
by - October 2, 2017 7:27 pm
Although the debate over school choice has been raging for years, it wasn’t something I paid attention to. I had always assumed that my children would attend the local public…
by - October 2, 2017 7:11 pm
Arkansas’ contribution to the nation’s massive $1.4 trillion student loan bubble actually got smaller in 2014, moving the state off another “bottom ten” financial ranking of U.S. states with the…
by - October 2, 2017 6:16 pm
In the aftermath of the recent hurricanes, the outlook of the trucking industry has improved, but more drivers might leave it for higher paying jobs close to home as they…
by - October 2, 2017 5:13 pm
August giveth, September taketh away. After a big upswing from Van Buren and Greenwood that placed the Fort Smith metro region’s building activity 3% ahead for the year, a poor…
by - October 2, 2017 4:59 pm
Despite recent setbacks for a project first announced in August 2014, the CEO at Boston-based Highland Pellet Inc. said Arkansas’ first full-scale wood pellet mill is still on schedule to…
by - October 2, 2017 3:47 pm
Trucking stocks have been trading at above historical levels as the number of mergers and acquisitions rise, freight demand improves, supply tightens and pending government regulations prop up shares of…
by - October 2, 2017 10:39 am
Total energy consumption and total energy cost for the U.S. government declined in fiscal year 2016, according to the Federal Energy Management Program. Total energy cost, which includes the amount…
by - October 2, 2017 9:31 am
Simmons Foods’ investment of $300 million into a modern chicken slaughter and primary processing facility has some wondering if jobs will shift from other operations in Van Buren and outside…
by - October 1, 2017 7:19 pm
Former Director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development Mike Downing has been named Jonesboro Unlimited’s Vice President for Economic Development. The group has also selected former KAIT lead anchor…
by - October 1, 2017 11:59 am
One of the iconic ladies of Garrison Avenue in downtown Fort Smith is getting some work done – inside and out. The eight-story headquarters of First National Bank of Fort…
by - October 1, 2017 11:56 am
Lee Moore doesn’t have an explanation for it. “The long and short of it is that RMP wasn’t supposed to grow like this, to be honest,” he said. “At least…
by - October 1, 2017 9:44 am
Economist Mervin Jebaraj likes what he sees in the current economy, but has his eye on several metrics and semantics to gauge future economic growth. Jebaraj, interim director of the…
by - October 1, 2017 9:37 am
The Frank and Barbara Broyles Foundation announced this week that the 2017 Broyles Award ceremony will be broadcast live and commercial free on KATV Channel 7, December 5th at 12:00…
by - September 30, 2017 11:20 pm
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is putting his support behind a Senate resolution that a progressive Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group says will help big banks and other financial concerns take…
by - September 29, 2017 5:55 pm
Tyson Foods CEO Tom Hayes said the company’s “time of transformation” led to 450 job cuts at the corporate offices in Springdale, Chicago and Cincinnati. Insiders tell Talk Business &…
by - September 29, 2017 4:07 pm
Natural gas inventories in the lower 48 states have fallen since April to a level lower than they were in the same period in 2016, but they continue to be…
