by The City Wire staff - April 2, 2012 1:16 pm
SILOAM SPRINGS — The John Brown University board of trustees unveiled two new building projects for the coming year for its students and surrounding community. A new banquet hall and…
by The City Wire staff - April 1, 2012 3:39 pm
The Arbor Day Foundation has named the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith a 2011 Tree Campus USA for the third year in a row. UAFS received the status for…
by The City Wire staff - March 30, 2012 9:21 pm
More than 50 tech-savvy volunteers will spend this weekend helping eight local charities write program applications, revamp websites and solve technical issues as part of the second annual NWA Give…
by The City Wire staff - March 30, 2012 5:37 pm
The University of Arkansas board of trustees voted unanimously to increase tuition at the college’s two-year and four-year schools Friday morning (Mar. 30). The tuition hike was outlined in the…
by The City Wire staff - March 30, 2012 10:52 am
The first round of 188th Fighter Wing members deploying to Afghanistan also comes at a time of much uncertainty among the about 1,000 unit members about the future of the…
by The City Wire staff - March 30, 2012 9:46 am
Veterans from the Natural State area who suffered psychological or physical injury in the Afghanistan or Iraqi wars will soon have a new chance to find healing. Rivers of Recovery,…
by The City Wire staff - March 29, 2012 1:35 pm
More than 70 high school students from 14 schools throughout the region attended “Baby Steps to Giant Steps,” a program of the Western Arkansas Education Service Cooperative (WAESC) that encourages…
by The City Wire staff - March 29, 2012 11:29 am
SPRINGDALE – The Jones Trust continues to attract key partnership agreements and recently approved a fee hike to help fill the $2.16 million annual operating deficit at The Jones Center…
by The City Wire staff - March 28, 2012 4:29 pm
The Noon Exchange Club of Fort Smith, in conjunction with the upcoming movement “Step Up, Speak Out! A Rally to End Child Abuse,” will host a joint press event at…
by The City Wire staff - March 28, 2012 2:49 pm
William R. “Bud” Harper, the former Sebastian County Judge and former director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management under Gov. Mike Huckabee, passed away Wednesday morning (Mar. 28). He…
by The City Wire staff - March 28, 2012 1:43 pm
5NEWS (KFSM TV 5 and KXNW TV 34) and The City Wire have teamed up to produce a weekly one-hour news show designed to provide more indepth information about business,…
by The City Wire staff - March 27, 2012 4:26 pm
The urbanized area of Northwest Arkansas was the 15th fastest growing region in the nation and is now qualified as a “Transportation Management Area,” according to a recent U.S. Census…
by The City Wire staff - March 26, 2012 6:08 pm
The Cancer Prevention Study 3 (CPS-3), presented by the American Cancer Society (ACS), is coming to the Fort Smith Region. A deeply involved 20-30-year long continuation of two previous studies,…
by The City Wire staff - March 26, 2012 5:07 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Marilyn Heifner will keep her job as executive director of the Fayetteville Advertising & Promotion Commission after pleading no contest earlier this month to violating the Freedom of Information…
by The City Wire staff - March 22, 2012 7:20 pm
Fort Smith City Administrator Ray Gosack on Thursday issued a report on the progress he believes has been made on “top strategic priorities” and “tactical issues” established during an April…
by The City Wire staff - March 22, 2012 9:44 am
Art Farine, a 32-year city employee and director for Siloam Springs, said a fiber-to-the-premises network will help the city stay current. Fiber can carry so much bandwidth that systems aren’t…
by The City Wire staff - March 21, 2012 6:55 pm
The long-awaited U.S. Marshals Commemorative Coin will soon be a reality, with up to $5 million in proceeds from the coin authorized to support a segment of work at the…
by The City Wire staff - March 20, 2012 7:09 am
The Van Buren City Council moved closer to funding a one-cent tax hike for a wide range of city improvements Monday night (March 19) at the regularly scheduled meeting. By…
by The City Wire staff - March 19, 2012 7:15 pm
Kirk Rhoads firmly believes Arkansans must fix weak laws against child sex trafficking. So, the Mountain Home activist began an online petition that garnered about 100 signatures in about a…
FORT SMITH — James Pickens Jr., the actor who portrays Dr. Richard Webber on the ABC-TV drama series Grey’s Anatomy, is scheduled to participate in a weekend celebrating the long-awaited unveiling…
