by - March 6, 2022 12:46 pm
The 2022 Steel Horse Rally is set for May 6-7 in downtown Fort Smith and organizers hope it will be as successful as the record-setting 2021 rally which had more…
by - March 4, 2022 12:34 pm
Patrick Weeks, who faces two felony charges of aggravated assault with a firearm, has resigned as president and CEO of the U.S. Marshals Museum. Museum Board Chair Doug Babb said…
by - March 3, 2022 7:32 am
The tourism and hospitality industry has lived through a two-year nightmare as restaurants, hotels and travel businesses suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Arkansas’ businesses in this sector were hit hard…
by - March 2, 2022 6:21 pm
The 2020 Arkansas Tourism Economic Impact Report shows a 35.6% decline in leisure travelers to the state and a more than 25% decline in overall tourism economic impact compared with…
by - March 2, 2022 5:19 pm
A July 5 trial date has been set for Patrick Weeks, president and CEO of the U.S. Marshals Museum. Weeks was arrested Dec. 21 on two felony charges of aggravated…
by - March 1, 2022 6:12 pm
Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax totaled $20.544 million in 2021, up 51% compared to 2020 and up 16.7% compared with the pre-pandemic record year of 2019. The 2021 gain suggests the…
by - March 1, 2022 4:08 pm
Hot Springs, horses and hotels are the backgrounds of Louis Cella and Bill Ott who were inducted Monday (Feb. 28) into the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame during the 48th…
by - February 28, 2022 2:03 pm
Restaurants and retail stores continue to open in Benton and Washington counties in early 2022 as the pandemic begins to ease in Northwest Arkansas. Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based Dollar General has planned…
by - February 22, 2022 10:38 pm
Terry “Big T” Williams spent his childhood living on a plantation in Farrell, Miss. It was the 1960s and the Civil Rights movement was afoot across his state and the…
by - February 10, 2022 5:10 pm
No one knows exactly when the first African Americans arrived in what is modern-day Northeast Arkansas. The first reports are that a man named William Looney moved from his Tennessee…
by - February 9, 2022 5:41 pm
The Community School of the Arts (CSA) received a $750,000 grant from the Mabee Foundation to support its Inspiring Excellence campaign to build a new Center for the Creative Arts…
by - February 9, 2022 3:48 pm
COVID-19 has been anything but hospitable to Arkansas’ leisure and hospitality sector. Jobs in the sector reached a record 122,900 in December 2019. Just four months later sector employment would…
by - February 8, 2022 5:12 pm
Air travel is slowly returning to Fort Smith, but at levels still well below those prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport in 2021 totaled…
by - February 8, 2022 9:47 am
Editor’s Note: The following story appeared in the Jan. 31 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business…
by - February 7, 2022 8:19 pm
The Department of Arkansas Heritage’s Arkansas Food Hall of Fame winners for the class of 2022 were announced on Monday (Feb. 7). Arkansas Heritage also honored chicken as the 2022…
by - February 3, 2022 4:26 pm
The good news about Arkansas’ tourism industry is the state’s 2% tourism tax is on pace to top the $20 million mark for the first time in 2021. The not-so-good…
by - February 1, 2022 3:30 pm
Details of a collaborative effort by the city of Fort Smith, Sebastian County and the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Area (FCRA) plans for a new dog park slated to open this…
by - January 31, 2022 5:36 pm
Sebastian County Circuit Judge Gunner Delay has once again ruled that the city of Fort Smith must get a waiver from the Arkansas Historic Commission about the removal of the…
by - January 31, 2022 8:33 am
When Arkansas State University changed its mascot from the Indians to the Red Wolves in 2008, the school became a part of an effort to save one of the most…
by - January 30, 2022 9:10 am
The Little Rock Advertising & Promotion Commission named Gina Gemberling as interim President & CEO of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau (LRCVB) Friday (Jan. 28). Earlier this week,…
