by - December 19, 2017 7:17 am
Arkansas Medicaid awarded more than $3.3 million in performance bonus payments to 15 Arkansas hospitals as part of the annual Inpatient Quality Incentive (IQI) program. Individual hospitals were recognized Dec….
by - December 18, 2017 5:29 pm
John Furner took over as Sam’s Club CEO on Feb. 1 this year, and brought with him two decades of retail operations experience from working his way up through the…
by - December 18, 2017 5:19 pm
During two aerial surveys, 102 Ips beetle spots were identified in areas of Clark, Pike, Dallas, Hot Spring, and Ouachita counties by the Agriculture Department’s Arkansas Forestry Commission (AFC). The…
by - December 18, 2017 5:14 pm
The next farm bill, agriculture trade, challenges in the cotton industry and other agriculture topics will be discussed at the 24th annual Arkansas State University’s Agribusiness Conference slated for Feb….
by - December 18, 2017 4:57 pm
The outlook looks great for truck manufacturers and component suppliers as order season jumped to a quick start, large fleets returned to equipment markets and contract rates have increased, said…
by - December 18, 2017 4:40 pm
Riverfront Drive Park/Skate Park leads the pack for 2018 spending out of Fort Smith’s 1/8-cent sales and use tax approved by voters in 2012 for the purpose of capital improvements…
by - December 18, 2017 1:57 pm
Federal court documents made public Monday (Dec. 18) cite an unnamed former Arkansas legislator and a Northwest Arkansas businessman as accomplices in a scheme with a New Jersey political consultant…
by - December 18, 2017 1:13 pm
Sherwood Urgent Care opened a second location at 1065 Skyline Drive in Conway. The location, which is adjacent to Starbucks, opened Monday (Dec. 18.) Its other location on Dave Ward…
by - December 18, 2017 10:58 am
Jeff Gearhart, executive vice president, global governance and corporate secretary at Wal-Mart Stores, will retire from the retail giant effective Jan. 31, according to an internal memo sent by CEO…
by - December 18, 2017 8:34 am
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the Dec. 11 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - December 17, 2017 5:57 pm
Department store retail is a business in transition and barely a month goes by without news of store closures leaving shopping malls with empty space. This year through Nov. 17,…
by - December 17, 2017 5:47 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport will add two gates to the B concourse and establish a generic gate system for them. On Dec. 13, the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority approved…
by - December 15, 2017 1:03 pm
One day after the Federal Communications Commission rolled back net neutrality rules established during President Barack Obama’s administration, critics are concerned that Internet providers will begin throttling back service as…
by - December 15, 2017 11:43 am
In an opinion delivered on Dec. 7, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined, for the first time, that pre-dispute contractual waivers of the right to a jury trial are unenforceable under…
by - December 15, 2017 10:38 am
The University of Arkansas Global Campus is offering a four-session course to teach best practices and practical, hands-on skills for flying unmanned aircraft, or drones, safely and legally. The class…
by - December 15, 2017 9:53 am
The state of Arkansas continues to commemorate the centennial of World War I with a series of events in December and 2018, in addition to new educational materials on its…
by - December 15, 2017 8:22 am
The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has awarded a multi-year contract to the software solutions unit of Little Rock-based IT service company Mainstream Technologies. The goal is to create…
by - December 14, 2017 6:40 pm
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey told an overflow audience at the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce’s 152nd annual meeting that collegiate athletics brings great “economic value” to major universities such…
by - December 14, 2017 6:16 pm
Jonesboro will have to collect a record number of hotel taxes in December if it hopes to keep pace with the number of collections in 2016. The city has collected…
by - December 14, 2017 3:06 pm
Consumers shopping in brick-and-mortar stores could see more robots at work as the cost of technology has come down and the industry struggles to find labor. Since Amazon first began…
