by - December 20, 2017 1:36 pm
After a parliamentary hitch on Tuesday caused the U.S. House of Representatives to reboot a winning vote on a $1.5 trillion tax cut package, Arkansas’ entire congressional delegation on Wednesday…
by - December 20, 2017 11:16 am
Widely publicized Silicon Valley success stories often used as recruiting tools abroad perpetuate an unproven belief that foreign-born workers have reaped outsized benefits from the skyrocketing information technology industry in…
by - December 20, 2017 10:59 am
A significant increase in month-to-month home sales for Sebastian County pushed the Fort Smith home sales market – Crawford, Sebastian counties – to a more than 11% gain for November,…
by - December 19, 2017 8:25 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors voted to approve a controversial $100 business license fee for the city’s close to 5,000 businesses on Tuesday night (Dec. 19) – a revenue…
by - December 19, 2017 5:55 pm
U.S. House members will on Wednesday (Dec.. 20) have to recast their votes on the $1.5 trillion tax cut bill after Republican leaders and rank-and-file members prematurely celebrated a pre-Christmas…
by - December 19, 2017 5:14 pm
One of Harrisburg’s leading employers plans to double its workforce by the spring of 2018. Rusken Packaging will undergo a $20 million expansion and hire about 50 new employees, Harrisburg…
by - December 19, 2017 4:53 pm
Tall Tall Trees of Asheville, N.C., and Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy of Lawrence, Kan., will headline the fifth-annual Ozark Mountain Music Festival Jan. 18-21 at the 1905 Basin Park…
by - December 19, 2017 4:51 pm
The mobile app-based rental and home owners’ insurance carrier Lemonade of New York City can now do business in Arkansas, according to a statement from Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr….
by - December 19, 2017 4:33 pm
As part of the state’s continuing efforts to cut rising Medicaid costs, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) announced Tuesday (Dec. 19) it had removed more than 80,000 individuals…
by - December 19, 2017 4:00 pm
The American Transportation Research Institute, the nonprofit research organization of American Trucking Associations, appointed four new members to its board of directors. ATRI Chairman Judy McReynolds, who’s chairman, president and…
by - December 19, 2017 3:19 pm
A former truck inspector expects the number of exemptions to the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate to rise as requests pile up, but the number of denied exemptions will be…
by - December 19, 2017 12:07 pm
Consumers are spending more this holiday season than they have in years, according to the 2017 Mastercard SpendingPulse report. MasterCard expects U.S. spending to be 5% more than the 2016…
by - December 19, 2017 12:00 pm
James (Jim) Rankin, the chief research officer and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Arkansas, will return to his alma mater as the 19th president of South Dakota School…
by - December 19, 2017 11:39 am
The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) approved a $2.092 billion operating budget for 2018, a 3% decrease from 2017 and 48% less than the 2010…
by - December 19, 2017 11:05 am
Fort Smith city sales tax revenues were off slightly in October, which is the last reported month of collections and reflects August transactions. The combined city sales tax tally for…
by - December 19, 2017 10:31 am
Entergy Arkansas, a company of energy provider Entergy Corp., has promoted Laura Landreaux to finance director, and Tom Kennedy to vice president of regulatory and governmental affairs. The company announced…
by - December 19, 2017 9:22 am
The Department of Arkansas Heritage is encouraging the placement of historical markers throughout the state by splitting the cost with community organizations on approved commemorative markers, said Stacy Hurst, director…
by - December 19, 2017 9:11 am
Despite years of battling by the financial industry and a significant change in the way Americans use debit and credit cards, the rate of identity theft soared during 2016 and hit…
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…
