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,…
by - January 26, 2022 3:09 pm
The Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau President and CEO Gretchen Hall is leaving the post in May after more than 20 years with the tourism and conference organization. Hall…
by - January 24, 2022 3:59 pm
T. Baridi Nkokheli, the former Fort Smith Sanitation Director whose impersonation of legendary lawman Bass Reeves helped raise awareness of the historic figure and money for a Reeves statue now…
by - January 20, 2022 10:06 am
Recreational kayak manufacturer Eddyline Kayaks has picked up a minority growth investment from Bentonville investment firm RZC Investments. The investment will support various growth initiatives, including the company’s plans to set up a physical…
by - January 18, 2022 7:41 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Jan. 18) approved the purchase of an advanced flood warning system on North 66th Street, and gave the final nod to renaming…
by - January 18, 2022 3:07 pm
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program announced its latest additions to the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is a program of the National Park Service….
by - January 15, 2022 9:37 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson appointed Steven M. Anthony to the Arkansas Racing Commission on Friday (Jan. 14). He replaces Butch Rice whose term expired. Anthony was born in Fayetteville and grew…
by - January 13, 2022 6:01 pm
U.S. Marshals Museum President and CEO Patrick Weeks has a court date set for Feb. 15. Weeks was arrested Dec. 21 on two felony charges of aggravated assault with a…
