by - July 7, 2017 11:54 am
The U.S. job market added 40,000 more jobs to the U.S. economy than expected as new hires, part-time and marginally attached workers continue to enter the labor pool seeking gainful…
by - July 7, 2017 10:28 am
Prices of energy commodities on the Standard and Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index fell 11% in the first half of 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It was…
by - July 6, 2017 6:23 pm
The Arkansas State Plant Board and Gov. Asa Hutchinson have decided that dicamba, a substance used to fight pigweed in cotton crops, has damaged thousands of acres of soybean crops…
by - July 6, 2017 5:59 pm
Independent film producer Johnny Remo first visited Northwest Arkansas last year, for a screening of his movie “Saved by Grace” at the Bentonville Film Festival (BFF). He decided then it…
by - July 6, 2017 5:44 pm
Aldi has moved under the media radar while much attention has been given to Amazon’s challenge to Wal-Mart Stores and other discount retailers. But folks in Bentonville have their eye…
by - July 6, 2017 4:35 pm
Events such as Amazon’s Prime Day are helping the trucking industry in historically one of the weakest months of the year, a transportation analyst said. Trucking/transportation analyst Brad Delco of…
by - July 6, 2017 4:23 pm
Hugh Kincaid insists the third time will be the charm. Kincaid, who will turn 83 in September, retired from The Bank of Fayetteville, effective June 30. He was the bank’s…
by - July 6, 2017 4:11 pm
Wall Street has been bullish on shares of Wal-Mart Stores through most of 2017 as the retail giant bucked sluggish traffic and same-store sales trends seen in much of the…
by - July 6, 2017 3:45 pm
Visibility in the supply chain offers more than just where a specific item is within the supply chain, a logistics professional said. Visibility also offers data that can be used…
by - July 6, 2017 1:26 pm
Consumers wrote two-thirds fewer checks in 2015, compared to 2000, and noncash payments for goods has risen nearly 95% over the same period, according to the Federal Reserve. Noncash payments…
by - July 6, 2017 11:20 am
Employment in the technology sector rose more than 26% to 227,085, between 2010 and 2015, in the Eighth District of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Nationwide, employment in…
by - July 6, 2017 9:52 am
Utility-scale renewable energy generators produced more electricity than nuclear plants for the first time since July 1984, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Renewable energy generation exceeded nuclear in…
by - July 6, 2017 9:43 am
Tyson Foods Inc. will invest nearly $60 million to expand its distribution center in Pottsville, Penn. The project will “add jobs, improve efficiency and support the company’s plans for growth,”…
by - July 6, 2017 8:12 am
A lawsuit filed by a former employee against Bailey & Oliver Law Firm of Rogers has been remanded back to state court. District Judge Tim Brooks ordered the lawsuit be…
by - July 5, 2017 8:50 pm
President Donald Trump’s move to “modernize” the North American Free Trade Agreement is seen by Arkansas trade officials as an opportunity to include more service exports and update the 1994…
by - July 5, 2017 5:49 pm
Arkansas rice farmers will still likely harvest a little more than 1 million acres this fall despite damaging flood waters earlier this spring that impacted much of Northeast Arkansas. But…
by - July 5, 2017 5:29 pm
“Slowly, but surely” might best describe the public-private partnership between the city of Fort Smith parks department and the Friends of Recreational Trails (FORT). In July 2015, FORT — led…
by - July 5, 2017 4:22 pm
Just one year after Washington Regional Hospital completed a $60 million, 100,000-square-feet expansion to the Fayetteville hospital, another expansion plan has been formulated. Faster than expected growth in demand for…
by - July 5, 2017 3:54 pm
A relatively inactive June pushed Fort Smith metro building permit values down compared to 2016. While Van Buren and Greenwood continued to perform above expectations, Fort Smith faltered with a…
by - July 5, 2017 3:49 pm
The overall number of residential building permits in the region’s four largest cities through the first five months of the year is down compared to 2016, but permit values are…
