by - May 1, 2024 11:24 am
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector reversed course in April as it contracted after expanding in March, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). Before the March expansion, the…
by - May 1, 2024 8:13 am
Bentonville-based Heartland Forward is addressing U.S. maternal health and negative pregnancy outcomes that result in $165.3 billion in medical costs. Arkansas is one of four states with the lowest maternal…
by - April 30, 2024 10:56 pm
Little Rock-based Encore Bancshares, Inc. and its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, Encore Bank, announced Tuesday (April 30) has accepted the resignation of CEO and Chairman Chris Roberts. As part of the…
by - April 30, 2024 8:38 pm
The Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame (AWHOF) has released the names of its eighth class of inductees — seven women and one organization – that have made significant contributions to…
by - April 30, 2024 8:22 pm
Danish farmers were excavating a peat bog in 1835 when they found a woman’s body. It was so well preserved in the bog that initially it was believed she had…
by - April 30, 2024 5:24 pm
The foreign military pilot training center in Fort Smith has yet to become operational or even see its first jet find a home in a hangar, but the number of…
by - April 30, 2024 3:21 pm
According to recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tontitown-based carrier P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. wants to change its corporate name to PAMT CORP and convert from a…
by - April 30, 2024 2:25 pm
Walmart’s experiment in the muddled healthcare sector ended abruptly Tuesday (April 30) when the retailer reversed course and announced it is closing healthcare centers and ending its virtual care service….
by - April 30, 2024 8:42 am
An almost $22 million one-time non-cash charge helped push Fort Smith-based ArcBest’s first-quarter net income into negative territory. The company says a combination of less demand and too much capacity…
by - April 29, 2024 8:18 pm
Arkansas’ rice crop rebounded in terms of acres in 2023, with farmers adding 327,000 more acres than they planted in 2022. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that the…
by - April 29, 2024 8:02 pm
Supercomputers and artificial intelligence aren’t typically associated with animal science, but they are among the tools for a relatively new field of science called bioinformatics that can be used to improve animal health and productivity. Jumping…
by - April 29, 2024 7:59 pm
A report issued Monday (April 29) by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement indicates that almost 99% of babies delivered in Arkansas in 2022 were delivered by physicians, with a…
by - April 29, 2024 4:44 pm
Bontiea Goss and Tommy Goss on Monday (April 29) were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a multimillion-dollar public corruption scheme that involved embezzlement and bribes paid to…
by - April 28, 2024 7:18 pm
A study conducted by The New Teacher Project says Arkansas has the highest teacher pay in the country, when you figure in cost-of-living factors, but the report is hesitant to…
by - April 26, 2024 8:38 am
The top six executives at Walmart saw higher compensation last year of a combined $96.724 million, or $264,997 per day. Most of the compensation is deferred or in stock options…
by - April 25, 2024 9:56 pm
Rob Walton, the oldest son of Walmart founders Helen and Sam Walton, has been a fixture on Walmart’s board of directors for more than four decades. But he is not…
by - April 25, 2024 9:01 pm
When a person in the Dallas metroplex is cooking dinner and needs a particular spice to complete the recipe, Walmart can have a drone deliver it in as little as…
by - April 25, 2024 8:30 pm
A startup fund of Little Rock-based Winrock International will back a project to build a high-tech telecommunications laboratory in southern Washington County. The investment amount was not disclosed. According to…
by - April 25, 2024 6:55 pm
The Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) is rebranding under a new name, Apprenticely. The nonprofit has operated for five years with the mission of growing the IT workforce throughout…
by - April 25, 2024 1:53 pm
The advance estimate of U.S. first-quarter real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of 1.6%, and the fourth quarter GDP was revised up to 3.4% from 3.3%,…
