by - January 30, 2018 3:12 pm
Sun Paper announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) plans to boost its investment in a proposed Arkansas mill from around $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion. The new plans also include projected employment…
by - January 30, 2018 3:01 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services delayed the release of its 2018 guidance by almost three months to complete the year and “dig a little deeper,” but guidance the Lowell-based carrier released…
by - January 29, 2018 5:18 pm
The occupancy rate of Arkansas hotels in 2017 was down 3% from the previous year, according to a report from the hotel industry data resource, STR. With an occupancy rate…
by - January 29, 2018 4:39 pm
Wal-Mart Stores is testing the use of more self-checkouts and fewer manned lines. For example, the newest Walmart Supercenter at Elm Springs Road in Springdale was recently revamped leaving just…
by - January 29, 2018 4:34 pm
More than 12,700 heads of lettuce in two years have been harvested from the University of Arkansas Freight Farm, a hydroponic vegetable farm contained in a 40-foot-long freight shipping container….
by - January 29, 2018 3:44 pm
State Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith, pleaded guilty on Monday (Jan. 29) to one count of wire fraud, one count of money laundering, and one count of bank fraud. He…
by - January 29, 2018 2:53 pm
Springdale-based Tyson Foods said its venture capital segment has made an undisclosed investment in Memphis Meats, a startup that focuses on producing meat protein from animal cells in a laboratory,…
by - January 29, 2018 8:10 am
Editor’s note: The Arkansas Transportation Report is managed by Talk Business & Politics and sponsored by the Arkansas Trucking Association and the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce. Other transportation industry related stories can be…
by - January 28, 2018 2:28 pm
The state’s pharmacists say they are losing money on average for every prescription they fill for patients covered by health insurance exchange plans administered by Blue Cross and Ambetter since…
by - January 28, 2018 2:21 pm
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. has dismissed his chief of staff, Clint Reed, a longtime Arkansas political operative who served on Rubio’s presidential and Senate campaigns in 2016. Rubio, a…
by - January 28, 2018 9:48 am
As part of Talk Business & Politics “2018 State of the State” magazine, three Arkansas executives offered their insights on the upcoming year and their expectations. Former Deltic Timber CEO…
by - January 26, 2018 7:00 pm
Northwest Arkansas continues to be Arkansas’ economic engine, with Jonesboro also showing good numbers in recent years, according to Mervin Jebaraj, director for the Center of Business & Economic Research…
by - January 26, 2018 2:50 pm
Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to note that Republican Party Chairman Doyle Webb did not say Gov. Asa Hutchinson would defeat challenger Jan Morgan in the GOP primary….
by - January 25, 2018 4:41 pm
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has rejected the language for a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow up to three casinos in restricted parts of the state with tax revenues…
by - January 25, 2018 3:42 pm
Two long-planned, controversial and expensive multistate energy projects with similar routes across Arkansas – one high-wire and the other underground – appear to be at opposite ends of their life…
by - January 25, 2018 3:24 pm
Move over kidney pie. One year after expanding to the Middle East, Fayetteville-based restaurant chain Slim Chickens now has its sights set on Europe. The company announced Thursday (Jan. 25)…
by - January 25, 2018 3:13 pm
Arkansas had record soybean and cotton yields in 2017, and corn yields were significantly higher, according to the United States Agricultural Department. Information about these farms and farmers in the…
by - January 25, 2018 3:04 pm
Wal-Mart is making room for its new corporate headquarters by relocating some distribution center operations in Bentonville and Fort Smith into a 1.03 million square foot warehouse space now under…
by - January 25, 2018 2:33 pm
Use of the tech-enabled guest rental service Airbnb continued to increase this past year in Arkansas, according to the company, which said it logged about 78,400 guest arrivals and brought…
by - January 24, 2018 5:48 pm
Wal-Mart Stores is once again thinning its corporate workforce as well as making changes to store hierarchy, with some of the co-manager positions being eliminated in certain stores. A source…
