by - March 23, 2011 8:18 am
story by Aric Mitchell [email protected] The aftereffects of 2011’s winter weather continued to resound with the Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission on Tuesday night as Airport Director John Parker pointed…
by - March 23, 2011 8:10 am
story by Wesley Brown [email protected] Startup executives and venture capitalists are nearly unanimous in their glowing support of U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor’s recent proposal to give tax breaks to so-called…
by - March 22, 2011 5:00 pm
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] HB 1902 by House Speaker Robert Moore, D-Arkansas City, was voted…
by - March 22, 2011 4:05 pm
The presidents and chancellors of Arkansas’ 11 public universities and two university systems issued a 16-point pledge today aimed at better collaboration and cooperation to advance the state’s higher education…
by - March 22, 2011 12:29 pm
“The judgment of the district court should be reversed.” So reads the complete and simple conclusion in an appeal brief filed Mar. 21 with the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals…
by - March 22, 2011 11:03 am
When Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1958, three female fans sent a letter to President Dwight Eisenhower asking him to not cut the young rocker’s hair….
by - March 22, 2011 10:05 am
From financing, rules and regulations and hiring employees, the job of a small business owner never stops.
by - March 22, 2011 9:25 am
Editor’s note: The following is part of a series of stories The City Wire will post in 2011 about foster care issues and organizations in the Fort Smith region. At…
by - March 22, 2011 9:13 am
A 26% decline in home sales in Crawford County during February resulted in an overall 2.1% decline in home sales in Crawford and Sebastian county homes sales, according to the…
by - March 21, 2011 9:19 pm
Hollywood Stars Pizza presents the weird and wackey musical comedy of the Rockey Horror Picture Show starting at 6:00 p.m. Join your favorite movie lovers as singing, dancing and rice…
by - March 21, 2011 4:23 pm
More than two-thirds of Arkansans have access to high-speed Internet, a jump from less than 50% four years ago. A new statewide survey of Arkansans released by Connect Arkansas showed…
by - March 21, 2011 2:14 pm
Developer Brandon Woodrome came out swinging during the March 15 Fort Smith Board of Directors meeting, saying that Fort Smith City Administrator Ray Gosack and other members of the city…
by - March 21, 2011 12:01 pm
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] House Speaker Robert Moore, D-Arkansas City, says he believes he’ll get…
by - March 21, 2011 8:06 am
Editor’s note: Arkansas Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith, provided the following commentary on the previous week of the 88th Arkansas General Assembly. The end of the Session is drawing nigh,…
by - March 21, 2011 7:58 am
Fort Smith area water usage is up for the first two months of 2011, but it’s too early to know if the increase reflects complete consumer reaction to a 5%…
by - March 20, 2011 6:53 pm
In what was often termed a tidal wave, Arkansas Republicans picked up all seven contested Arkansas Senate races and added 16 new Republican House seats to their totals. The end result…
by - March 20, 2011 6:43 pm
Arkansas legislators have an extra source of income.
by - March 20, 2011 3:36 pm
The author visited Fort Smith to for a reading and discussion of her Cherokee ancestors.
by - March 19, 2011 11:30 pm
Western Arkansas Ballet proudly presents to the community, in memory of Mayor Ray Baker, the Western Arkansas Ballet Company and area children performing Tchaikovsky’s Alice in Wonderland. More than 80…
by - March 18, 2011 6:45 pm
William Conner Eldridge Jr., 33, was formally sworn in as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas during a Friday (Mar. 18) investiture ceremony at the Judge Isaac…
