by - April 26, 2017 8:48 pm
Changes sought by the state of Arkansas to the Arkansas Works program would reduce enrollment by more than 60,000 individuals and reduce the state’s costs by between $67 million and…
by - April 26, 2017 7:16 pm
The European Union’s ambassador to the U.S. has forwarded a letter to Gov. Asa Hutchinson from the 28-member state alliance asking him to halt the execution of Kenneth Williams on…
by - April 26, 2017 4:06 pm
BHP Billiton CEO Andrew Mackenzie said Wednesday (April 26) the Australian mining giant has initiated the sale of its “non-core” U.S. operations and is reviewing the possible auction of its…
by - April 26, 2017 2:39 pm
American Trucking Associations spearheaded efforts to allow carriers to use hair testing as an alternative to urinalysis for drug testing truck drivers, and a recently approved highway bill will allow…
by - April 26, 2017 12:43 pm
In several ways, Katie Cook is unique. She was born with a rare defect called agenesis of the corpus callosum, or ACC, where the band of white matter connecting the…
by - April 26, 2017 12:12 pm
Analysis of five military installations suggests the operations contribute $4.5 million in gross state product, according to a report released Wednesday (April 26) by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC)….
by - April 26, 2017 11:45 am
Margie Raimondo is about to be able to ask her customers if they want cheese with her vintage wines. The owner of Raimondo’s Winery in Mountain Home bought Kent Walker…
by - April 26, 2017 11:33 am
On April 21, Ledell Lee’s execution began at 11:44 p.m. when the first drops of the sedative medazolam entered his veins. It ended 12 minutes later, four minutes before midnight….
by - April 26, 2017 11:27 am
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., says he thinks the Trump administration will install more business-friendly regulators into the nation’s banking oversight system – an allowance that the controversial Dodd-Frank law…
by - April 25, 2017 7:38 pm
One day after Arkansas’ Cummins Unit prison facility was the site of the nation’s first double execution in 17 years, a commission in Oklahoma is recommending a moratorium on the…
by - April 25, 2017 7:12 pm
The state Legislature will meet May 1 to adjourn its regular biennial session and then enter into a three-day special session to pass health care legislation and make technical corrections…
by - April 25, 2017 4:06 pm
Changes with the Wal-Mart Stores board of directors have shaved 11 years off the board’s median age in the past two years. The board in fiscal 2017 had a median…
by - April 25, 2017 1:39 pm
Arts and cultural economic activity accounted for 4.2% of the U.S. gross domestic product, or $730 billion, in 2014, according to a report released April 19 by the Bureau of…
by - April 25, 2017 12:18 pm
Supporting STEM & Space, a Fayetteville-based nonprofit, is raising money to transport from Pennsylvania to Northwest Arkansas a 50,000-pound, antique telescope, donated to the organization by Swarthmore College. At 36…
by - April 25, 2017 7:39 am
Tyson Foods is acquiring Cincinnati-based AdvancePierre Foods Holdings in a $4.2 billion deal that includes assumption of $1.1 billion in debt, or roughly $40.25 per share. Tuesday’s (April 25) news…
by - April 25, 2017 7:29 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 - April 25, 2017 6:31 am
Arkansas reportedly became the first state since 2000 to execute two death row inmates on the same day Monday night at the Cummins Unit on the Arkansas Department of Correction…
by - April 25, 2017 6:30 am
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman sat down for a conversation for the Monday edition of Talk Business & Politics Daily. Westerman discussed the late Fourth District Congressman Jay Dickey, who passed…
by - April 24, 2017 7:36 pm
Editor’s note: Updated to include the execution of Marcel Williams. ––––––––––––––––––– Arkansas death row inmates Jack Jones and Marcel Williams have been executed. Jones was injected at 7:06 p.m., and…
by - April 24, 2017 5:25 pm
While investors were buying into less-than-truckload stocks late last year, some analysts were “pointing fingers” at the move, driving up the stocks. Since January, stocks have started to return to…
