by - July 15, 2023 9:32 am
South Carolina startup Palmetto Gourmet Foods is focused on making protein-rich ramen noodle products and healthier alternatives to what’s on the soup aisle at Walmart and its competitors. Reza Soltanzadeh,…
by - July 13, 2023 4:35 pm
Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) announced an agreement with Walgreens for the publicly-traded pharmacy chain to acquire 120 Brookshire pharmacies in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Grocery store operations are not part…
by - July 13, 2023 3:55 pm
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. is expected to post declines in second-quarter earnings and revenue amid weak freight demand and recovery timeline uncertainty, analysts said. After the markets…
by - July 13, 2023 2:26 pm
Gov. Sarah Sanders named former State Rep. Ken Bragg to the state Board of Education on Thursday (July 13). Bragg, a Republican from Sheridan, served four terms in the Arkansas…
by - July 13, 2023 12:13 pm
Prices of goods sold online in June fell an average 2.6% from a year ago, marking the 10th consecutive month of declines from 2022, according to recent data from the…
by - July 12, 2023 12:42 pm
A report from JLL predicts average back-to-school spending per child at $367, up 15.7% from a year ago. The report found 55.2% of parents plan to spend more money, 23.8%…
by - July 12, 2023 10:31 am
A Tampa, Fla.-based professional soccer organization is partnering with a new Arkansas team to bring professional soccer to the state. The United Soccer League (USL) and USL Arkansas announced Wednesday…
by - July 11, 2023 7:19 pm
The U.S. Congress recently passed the INFORM Consumers Act effective June 27 in hopes of deterring criminals from acquiring stolen and counterfeit items and selling them through online marketplaces. Officially…
by - July 11, 2023 8:08 am
In 2018, Walmart launched its Big Blue mobile pharmacy to travel to areas hit by disasters or fire and set up shop, filling prescriptions and seeing customers in the impacted…
by - July 10, 2023 5:53 pm
Arkansas medical marijuana patients have spent $141 million on purchases in the first half of 2023, up 5.2% compared with $134 million in the same period of 2022, according to…
by - July 10, 2023 4:28 pm
In the third month of activity, Arkansas posted its highest level of disenrollment figures since beginning its redetermination process mandated by state and federal law. In June, Arkansas Department of…
by - July 10, 2023 1:41 pm
Despite myriad forces facing rice farmers in 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) now projects that about 1.311 million acres of the crop have been…
by - July 10, 2023 11:30 am
Ingeborg Investments founder and CEO Olivia Walton, the chairperson of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and co-founder of the Heartland Summit, will be the keynote speaker at the…
by - July 10, 2023 11:27 am
The National Retail Federation’s monthly economic review indicates the U.S. economy is “slowly rolling forward” to start the back half of the year. NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said the…
by - July 10, 2023 8:01 am
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts executive director Dr. Victoria Ramirez is ready to wear a new hat. With renovation of the new museum in Little Rock’s MacArthur Park complete, Ramirez…
by - July 9, 2023 7:15 pm
Charlie Daniels, the former Arkansas Commissioner of State Lands, Secretary of State and Auditor of State, has died after a brief illness. He was 83 years old. Daniels, who served…
by - July 9, 2023 10:48 am
The road that led Aaron Nolan to an award-winning TV journalism career started on a whim. His 17-year TV news career included trips to cover the 2016 Summer Olympics in…
by - July 9, 2023 9:05 am
U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Little Rock, shared his views on a variety of subjects ranging from his vote on infrastructure and broadband funding to COVID relief fraud to Russia and…
by - July 7, 2023 4:37 pm
With the Marvell-Elaine School District’s status uncertain because of a lawsuit over the LEARNS Act, the Arkansas State Board of Education voted Friday (July 7) to permanently remove the Marvell-Elaine…
by - July 5, 2023 2:24 pm
Gov. Sarah Sanders has named Brandon Adams of Fayetteville as the newest member of the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission. Adams’ seven-year term will end in 2030, and he replaces…
