by - June 21, 2015 5:18 pm
Diverting offenders with mental illness into treatment instead of incarcerating them could save Arkansas $140 million a year, according to a rough estimate in a new report issued Thursday by…
by - June 21, 2015 5:12 pm
New survey data shows Republican Mike Huckabee would beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in Arkansas if both were their party’s respective nominees, and former Democratic Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe would lead…
by - June 19, 2015 10:29 am
A year-over-year gain of more than 46,000 jobs kept Arkansas’ jobless rate at 5.7% during May. The month marked the 11th consecutive month the rate has been at or below…
by - June 18, 2015 7:26 pm
A growing demand for logistics employees in the area pushed by growth at Fort Smith-based ArcBest and Van Buren-based USA Truck has prompted one local college to create a new…
by - June 18, 2015 3:48 pm
There may no longer be a direct flight from the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport to Washington D.C. but there is a direct link between the two cities as the latter…
by - June 18, 2015 3:05 pm
By a nearly two-to-one margin, Arkansas voters believe in the state’s so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which was passed by state lawmakers after a contentious and controversial national and…
by - June 18, 2015 2:57 pm
Americans paid off $34.7 billion in credit card debt in the first quarter of 2015 while racking up a whopping $55 billion in additional card debt so far this year,…
by - June 18, 2015 2:46 pm
Execs at the world’s largest retailer are all about new store formats and innovation, but they aren’t letting go of the big box. Wal-Mart Stores CEO Doug McMillon recently told…
by - June 18, 2015 8:26 am
Dawson Meadows works through the static this week to walk us through the news and things to do and comparing his youthful “vodka-fueled” habits to those of successful welder Devon…
by - June 17, 2015 7:34 pm
Ryan Herget, CEO and founder of Little Rock-based Chef Shuttle, has spread his wings from central Arkansas westward to offer a new restaurant delivery service in Rogers and Bentonville. The…
by - June 17, 2015 6:39 pm
It’s possible that by Thursday (June 18), a U.S. Supreme Court decision will result in 68,232 Arkansans losing insurance subsidies provided through the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare….
by - June 17, 2015 4:05 pm
Like it or not the retail landscape is reconfiguring itself for the future while much of the supply chain is planning with yesterday’s strategy, according to Leon Nicholas, senior vice…
by - June 17, 2015 3:45 pm
The road between startup and success is long and tiring, but for entrepreneurial team Ram Ganesan and Pavan Kumar the prospects of raising a cool million dollars to further their…
by - June 16, 2015 6:50 pm
A committee will soon be formed to provide citizen input on more than $20 million collected each year by the city of Fort Smith through its 1% street tax program….
by - June 16, 2015 5:51 pm
Predictions that Tropical Storm Bill will bring another six to 10 inches of rain to watershed areas of the Arkansas River could mean that normal transportation on the river system…
by - June 16, 2015 4:45 pm
Only a half dozen years after the Great Recession, the auto industry is experiencing a strong resurgence in payrolls with more than 7.25 million private sector jobs in the U.S….
by - June 16, 2015 4:34 pm
Wal-Mart says its $1 billion investment in people is already starting to pay off as cashier turnover in the front-end of its stores began to slow the day the $9…
by - June 16, 2015 8:38 am
Devon Ramsey, 19, has a great job. He’s just barely one year out of high school, making well over $75,000 a year, has a new truck, no student loan debt…
by - June 15, 2015 6:36 pm
The Arkansas Lottery Scholarship program may be struggling to make ends meet, but in the the past five years the 43 Arkansans who were million dollar winners through the program…
by - June 15, 2015 5:32 pm
Arkansas’ rig count has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade as drillers and oilfield equipment companies have cut back substantially on upstream oil and gas capital…
