by - January 31, 2018 2:57 pm
Rodney Slater, former U.S. secretary of transportation and graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law, will commemorate the 70th anniversary of Silas Hunt’s admission to the law school….
by - January 31, 2018 1:27 pm
Tom Larimer, the executive director of the nonprofit Arkansas Press Association, announced his retirement Wednesday (Jan. 31). Larimer, 69, has been director of the association since 2004 after a long…
by - January 31, 2018 1:19 pm
Hydraulically fractured horizontal wells comprised 69% of all oil and natural gas well drilled in the United States and 83% of the total linear footage drilled in 2016, according to…
by - January 31, 2018 10:39 am
With more sales moving online and new services emerging like Wal-Mart Stores’ grocery pickup, the onus is on suppliers to ensure online product listings include relevant content and specific information…
by - January 31, 2018 7:20 am
Fourth quarter and full-year net income was up 53% and 46.3%, respectively, for Fort Smith-based ArcBest, and fourth quarter earnings per share of 42 cents beat the consensus estimate of…
by - January 30, 2018 6:18 pm
More than 40 federal, state, county and city officials in Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri signed letters supporting the federal grant that would complete a 265-mile segment of Interstate 49, between…
by - January 30, 2018 5:50 pm
Fort Smith-based Beaty Capital Group now owns two former Masonic Temples. The group is set to close on a third temple in a few months, and before the year ends…
by - January 30, 2018 5:34 pm
An estimated 4,000 Wal-Mart suppliers are in Bentonville this week at the retailer’s annual Supplier Growth Forum with the hot topic being the new guidelines for On-Time-In-Full (OTIF) deliveries of…
by - January 30, 2018 4:45 pm
America’s Car-Mart has opened three new dealerships in fiscal 2018, which ends April 30, and will announce third-quarter financial results on Feb. 19. The Bentonville-based buy here, pay here used…
by - January 30, 2018 3:33 pm
A $100 investment in Bitcoin on July 28, 2010, would have been worth more than $28 million as of Dec. 12, 2017. Since that time, the grandfather of all cryptocurrencies…
by - January 30, 2018 3:12 pm
Sun Paper announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) plans to boost its investment in a proposed Arkansas mill from around $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion. The new plans also include projected employment…
by - January 30, 2018 3:01 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services delayed the release of its 2018 guidance by almost three months to complete the year and “dig a little deeper,” but guidance the Lowell-based carrier released…
by - January 30, 2018 2:34 pm
A Fayetteville attorney is planning to relocate his practice to a new building, one that will give it room to grow. Atwell Law Firm owner Chad Atwell recently paid $420,000…
by - January 30, 2018 2:06 pm
January was a banner month for sales tax revenue in Bentonville, but the collection tally may face future revision. The city reported a whopping 326% increase with $3.778 million in…
by - January 30, 2018 11:36 am
The Clinton Presidential Center on Feb. 2 will open a new temporary exhibit featuring three original Louisiana Purchase Treaty documents from the National Archives and Records Administration. “The Great Expedition:…
by - January 30, 2018 8:22 am
Between late August and September, U.S. crude oil exports rose to record-high levels after Hurricane Harvey disrupted U.S. Gulf Coast refineries, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In October…
by - January 29, 2018 5:18 pm
The occupancy rate of Arkansas hotels in 2017 was down 3% from the previous year, according to a report from the hotel industry data resource, STR. With an occupancy rate…
by - January 29, 2018 4:39 pm
Wal-Mart Stores is testing the use of more self-checkouts and fewer manned lines. For example, the newest Walmart Supercenter at Elm Springs Road in Springdale was recently revamped leaving just…
by - January 29, 2018 4:34 pm
More than 12,700 heads of lettuce in two years have been harvested from the University of Arkansas Freight Farm, a hydroponic vegetable farm contained in a 40-foot-long freight shipping container….
by - January 29, 2018 2:53 pm
Springdale-based Tyson Foods said its venture capital segment has made an undisclosed investment in Memphis Meats, a startup that focuses on producing meat protein from animal cells in a laboratory,…
