by - February 20, 2019 11:42 am
KATV to move to Riverdale campus in 2020
KATV will be moving to a new location in the Riverdale area of Little Rock in early 2020. Its current location at 4th and Main Street, the home to KATV…
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by - February 20, 2019 11:01 am
Entergy Arkansas parent posts 4Q loss of $66 million on nuclear impairments
Entergy Corp. posted a hefty fourth quarter loss related to the New Orleans-based electricity provider’s decision to sell its merchant nuclear and wholesale power fleet and go back to its…
by - February 19, 2019 9:15 pm
Windstream, Uniti stock largest decliners on Nasdaq; Wall Street hedge fund mocks company executives
Shareholders of Windstream Holdings Inc. and closely-tied Uniti Corp. fled both companies’ stocks in Tuesday’s trading session after a Wall Street hedge fund mocked the Little Rock telecom’s response to…
by - February 19, 2019 6:29 pm
America’s Car-Mart beats analyst expectations by 52 cents per share in the third quarter
America’s Car-Mart profit fell 18.6% in the third quarter of fiscal 2019, from the same period in the previous fiscal year, but excluding the impact of tax reform and a…
by - February 19, 2019 4:32 pm
Gov. Hutchinson testifies before Senate panel, asks lawmakers to adopt transformation plan
Gov. Asa Hutchinson made a rare visit to a Senate committee on Tuesday (Feb. 19) to make a strong pitch for his efforts to streamline state government from 42 varied…
by - February 19, 2019 12:42 pm
Walmart full-year revenue up 2.9%, net income falls more than 30%
Gains in holiday sales helped boost Walmart revenue in the 2019 fiscal fourth quarter, and for the fiscal year ending Jan. 31. Quarterly revenue for the Bentonville-based retail giant rose…
by - February 19, 2019 12:38 pm
Program points girls toward cybersecurity skills
Arkansas is participating in an initiative to encourage female students to learn cybersecurity skills. The Arkansas Department of Education announced Tuesday (Feb. 19) that Arkansas is partnering with the SANS…
by - February 18, 2019 9:08 pm
Senate adopts new ethics rules, votes for Bates and Cash statues; Governor signs teacher pay raise
The Arkansas Senate on Monday (Feb. 18) unanimously approved both a measure that would prohibit Arkansas lawmakers from dual work as a lobbyist and a proposal to place statues of…
by - February 18, 2019 6:08 pm
Windstream postpones 4Q, yearly financial report as court ruling fogs future
Windstream Holdings Inc. on Monday (Feb. 18) put off its fourth-quarter and yearly earnings report scheduled for Thursday as the Little Rock-based Fortune 500 company evaluates its options following an…
by - February 18, 2019 4:25 pm
State rice and corn harvest numbers up; soybean and peanuts down
Arkansas farmers managed to pull enough rice from the land to mark a 30% increase over 2017’s lower numbers, which was a result of flooding during that year’s spring. Not…
by - February 18, 2019 1:34 pm
Class 8 orders fall 68%, investor sentiment rises in trucking industry
Net orders of class 8 trucks, the largest truck class, fell in January to the lowest order level in more than two years as orders have fallen over the past…
by - February 18, 2019 12:54 pm
The Supply Side: Walmart suppliers improve initiatives supporting Project Gigaton
Walmart’s big sustainability push known as Project Gigaton was announced in 2017 in partnership with the Sustainability Consortium. The milestone project involves Walmart’s removing 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse…
by - February 17, 2019 4:33 pm
Senate Leader Hendren says highway plan forging ahead, confident of UAMS cancer institute funding
Senate President Pro Temp Jim Hendren, R-Sulphur Springs, says a $300 million highway plan will easily move through the State Senate and he’s confident that UAMS will secure the $10-20…
by - February 17, 2019 4:32 pm
Democrats push to remove slavery, involuntary servitude from Arkansas Constitution
A proposed constitutional amendment would remove Arkansas’ status as one of two states that still has language allowing for involuntary servitude of citizens. Rep. Vivian Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, hopes fellow…
by - February 17, 2019 12:06 am
Retail growth expected to continue, led by online, discounters
The retail landscape is changing but that’s not all bad, according to Kantar Research analyst Tim Campbell, who recently outlined his projections for retail growth by shopping channel in a…
by - February 16, 2019 11:10 am
U.S. ‘skills gap’ is real: HR professionals can’t find suitable job candidates
A recently released report by the nation’s top human resource trade group said the “skills gap” in the U.S. is real and getting worse as four out of five hiring…
by - February 16, 2019 11:08 am
St. Louis Fed: Conventional wisdom on college degree’s worth is changing
A new report by the St. Louis’s Fed’s Center for Household Financial Stability notes that while a college degree is usually associated with higher pay and a better financial future,…
by - February 15, 2019 11:08 pm
New York court rules Windstream defaulted on debt bonds, must pay $310 million
A federal judge in New York City ruled late Friday evening that Little Rock-based Windstream Holdings had defaulted on its bonds in 2015 during the spinoff of its telecom assets…
by - February 15, 2019 2:33 pm
Almost 9,000 fail to comply with Arkansas Works work requirement in January
Almost 9,000 Arkansas Works recipients did not meet work requirements in January, meaning they could lose their benefits if they fail to comply two more months in 2019. The Arkansas…
by - February 15, 2019 1:07 pm
Ritter Communications to spend $7 million to build out high-speed services in Hot Springs
Ritter Communications is investing $7 million in infrastructure construction to build out new high-speed services to Hot Springs. The company announced Friday (Feb. 15) that it would make the investment…