by - October 5, 2017 4:52 pm
Feral hogs are a growing problem in Arkansas and across the United States and state officials are considering the approval of a poison to reign-in feral hog populations. Feral hogs…
by - October 5, 2017 4:04 pm
Fires are raging across the western United States and U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, has decided to act. Westerman has introduced a bill that would stop “fire borrowing,” a…
by - October 5, 2017 3:47 pm
Wal-Mart Stores is closing a Neighborhood Market in Little Rock on Nov. 2. Store No. 5666 at 2510 Cantrell Road opened in mid- 2012 but over the years the store…
by - October 5, 2017 11:55 am
The Walton Family Foundation announced Thursday (Oct. 5) it will provide grants totaling $787,000 to six cities in Benton County to help increase and diversify the area’s tree canopy. The…
by - October 5, 2017 11:26 am
The volume of intermodal containers and trailers on U.S. railroads rose 3.8% to 39,482 units in September, from the same month in 2016, according to the Association of American Railroads….
by - October 5, 2017 9:50 am
Fayetteville wants for feedback on its Energy Action Plan and will host two public meetings to receive comments from residents on the plan. The meetings will take place after a…
by - October 5, 2017 9:06 am
A new survey shows the Northwest Arkansas metro — defined as Benton, Washington and Madison counties in Arkansas and McDonald County in Missouri — had just 33 homes in some…
by - October 5, 2017 9:00 am
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has credited President Trump with delivering on his commitment to plow forward with bold tax reform. In a recent statement, NAM President and CEO…
by - October 4, 2017 9:05 pm
Arkansas accountants might have been given the all clear to provide professional services to medical marijuana businesses in the state, but some of the largest accounting firms in Northwest Arkansas…
by - October 4, 2017 8:36 pm
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has released its monthly Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for September, and the story told is another positive one with the PMI at 60.8%, an…
by - October 4, 2017 5:23 pm
As the nation’s population continues to age, the number of consumers having to provide care to the elderly on a daily basis reached 41.3 million in the past two years,…
by - October 4, 2017 3:35 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday (Oct. 4) announced a $500,000 grant from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education to the University of Central Arkansas that will help fund development of…
by - October 4, 2017 3:07 pm
Consumers have the ability to spend more this holiday season, but the golden question is how much more? Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist for the National Retail Federation (NRF), said the…
by - October 4, 2017 2:04 pm
A transportation equipment company shouldn’t lose the $682 million it was expected to pay after winning an appeal in a case regarding a guardrail system it had redesigned without disclosing…
by - October 4, 2017 12:25 pm
Salvage auction operators have been rapidly recovering the nearly 200,000 vehicles totaled by Hurricane Harvey, and they should start to enter the market between the middle of the fourth quarter…
by - October 4, 2017 12:07 pm
The Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) has granted permission to sell insurance products in the state to American Inter-Fidelity Exchange of Merrillville, Indiana. The announcement was made Wednesday (Oct. 4). American Inter-Fidelity…
by - October 4, 2017 11:33 am
Eureka Springs, branded itself The Halloween City, has a number of Halloween-themed events on tap for October, including ghost tours, haunted theatrical shows, zombie parade, cemetery tours, séances and haunted…
by - October 4, 2017 10:56 am
Average gasoline taxes and fees levied by states have risen 4.5% to 27.9 cents per gallon as of July 1, from the same time last year, according to the U.S….
by - October 4, 2017 10:12 am
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Prof. Nitin Agarwal and his team have received $230,000 from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop methodologies for detecting social media…
by - October 4, 2017 9:48 am
The University of Arkansas Global Campus is partnering with NWA3D, a 3-D printing education company in Fayetteville, to teach business professionals how to use and maintain a 3-D printer through…
