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…
by - April 24, 2017 4:18 pm
Chris Weiser, president and CEO of J.V. Manufacturing in Springdale, has been appointed to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Advisory Board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The institute…
by - April 24, 2017 8:16 am
During a recent Women in Technology Conference at the University of Arkansas, National Center for Women & Information Technology Associate Director Terry Morreale pointed to widely published research in order…
by - April 24, 2017 7:58 am
Within the first two days of launching the invitation for its fourth Open Call, Walmart U.S. received about 200 applications from existing and prospective suppliers to pitch their products in…
by - April 24, 2017 7:43 am
After 53% of Arkansas voters approved the state’s Medical Marijuana Amendment in November, legislators passed 24 laws that changed it. But none severely restricted the availability of the drug, said…
by - April 23, 2017 10:00 pm
When journalist Jaide Garcia arrived at the Cummins Unit around 3 p.m. on Thursday, it was hot and sticky. Inside the prison at that same time, convicted killer Ledell Lee…
by - April 23, 2017 10:00 am
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., says President Donald Trump has restored American credibility by showing force and demanding changes from North Korea, Syria, and Iran. In a wide-ranging interview on…
by - April 21, 2017 1:45 pm
A reduction in the state’s available labor pool and a year-over-year gain of more than 2,000 jobs helped push Arkansas’ March jobless rate to a new record low of 3.6%….
by - April 21, 2017 12:53 pm
The United States can only become a healthy nation if it first becomes an equitable one regarding opportunities for healthy living, a former surgeon general under Presidents Bill Clinton and…
by - April 21, 2017 12:42 pm
For the second time in a week, a commercial real estate purchase in Bentonville has topped $20 million. Beau Terre, Northwest Arkansas’ largest office park, is now locally owned after…
by - April 21, 2017 7:08 am
UPDATE: A family visitation will take place from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, April 28 at the Pine Bluff Country Club at 1100 W. 46th St. Funeral services will be held…
by - April 21, 2017 6:47 am
Grady, Ark. – More than 24 years after Inmate #000936 committed the murder that put him on a path to destruction, media witnesses came out of the Varner death chamber…
by - April 21, 2017 12:08 am
Convicted killer Ledell Lee didn’t utter a single word moments before a lethal drug cocktail was injected into his body Thursday night inside Arkansas’ Death Row chamber in Varner. Lee,…
