by - April 7, 2014 12:59 pm
The 188th Fighter Wing’s Ebbing Air National Guard Base will host seven F-16C Falcons and 40 maintenance, operation and support personnel from the Oklahoma Air National Guard’s Tulsa-based 138th Fighter…
by - April 3, 2014 8:09 pm
Chuck Marohn spent three hours Thursday morning (April 3) denuding decades-long accepted conventional wisdom of local government investment in infrastructure and economic development. His message was simple: If you don’t…
by - April 3, 2014 6:18 pm
With the uproar over new Common Core standards leading some states, including Indiana and soon Oklahoma, to repeal all or part of the standards, local education administrators are defending the…
by - April 1, 2014 5:12 pm
Much of Arkansas could face large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes on Wednesday and rain the rest of the week, with the Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas areas almost at…
by - April 1, 2014 6:37 am
The City of Rogers is a shopping destination in Northwest Arkansas and the new Walmart AMP under construction in Pinnacle Hills is poised to be a gem the entire region…
by - March 28, 2014 8:37 am
Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus will host a series of receptions that will provide students, faculty, staff and community members with an opportunity to learn more about the four finalists to…
by - March 27, 2014 2:30 pm
Susan Steffens has been named executive director of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Cancer Support Foundation and Donald W. Reynolds Cancer Support House of Fort Smith. Judy Englehart, president of Regions Insurance and…
by - March 26, 2014 5:58 pm
A land swap between the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority and the Army National Guard has the city of Barling wanting something, too. At the city's Board of Directors meeting on…
by - March 25, 2014 6:47 pm
A new online university and many new degree programs were approved at last week's meeting of the University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees meeting. But not much discussed was…
by - March 25, 2014 6:06 pm
Combined personal incomes in Arkansas during 2013 grew 2.2%, below the 2.6% U.S. average, with the state’s per capita average of $36,086 pushing the state’s national ranking from 45 in…
by - March 24, 2014 5:30 pm
Ben Geren Aquatics Center has taken another step closer to reality with news that the final plans for the joint city-county water park have gone out to bid. According to…
by - March 24, 2014 1:40 pm
Betsy Garrison, who has held various positions at Louisiana State University since 1993, has been named director of the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the Dale Bumpers College of…
by - March 20, 2014 6:49 pm
The 188th Fighter Wing, which is in the process of converting to an intelligence and recon unit, has received approval to spend $12.5 million to build a 40,000-square-foot facility that…
by - March 20, 2014 3:36 pm
The gifts that give again, or paying it forward are one of the main reasons the Walmart Foundation continues to support the Jones Center for Families in Springdale. Karen Parker,…
by - March 19, 2014 6:27 am
When Ralph Overstreet bought a watch repair shop on Bentonville’s town square in 1948, the city had less than 3,000 residents, no one had ever heard of Sam Walton, and…
by - March 18, 2014 6:16 pm
Downtown leaders Tuesday (March 18) moved to request more city funding in order to cover an overage in the cost of a planned splash pad at Compass Park after changes…
by - March 13, 2014 5:44 pm
Pizza, Mexican food and a snoring wife are what keeps local mayors up at night. At least those were the comical responses to the first question asked of four Northwest…
by - March 13, 2014 10:30 am
Brandy Cox, a University of Arkansas graduate who grew up in Hot Springs Village, has been named associate vice chancellor for alumni and executive director of the Arkansas Alumni Association…
by - March 12, 2014 7:58 pm
Much of Arkansas is in the area of “greatest risk” for severe weather that may include a spike in tornadoes and damaging thunderstorms and is expected to begin in early…
by - March 12, 2014 6:04 pm
Dr. Ray Wallace, provost and senior vice chancellor at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, will assume his new position as chancellor at Indiana University Southeast on July 1….
