by - October 13, 2015 5:36 pm
Fort Smith Director Tracy Pennartz took Whirlpool representatives to task at the Tuesday (Oct. 13) study session of the Fort Smith Board of Directors and also began the process of…
by - October 13, 2015 5:07 pm
While most U.S. businesses have been shut out of Cuba for 55 years, Arkansas’ poultry industry has exported broiler meat to the tiny island nation for more than a decade….
by - October 13, 2015 8:42 am
Monthly and quarterly severance tax collections in Arkansas at the end of September have declined to levels not seen in several years as wellhead prices for natural gas have brought…
by - October 12, 2015 8:16 pm
Fort Smith, say hello to your Southside High School Mavericks. In a lopsided vote at Monday night’s (Oct. 12) mascot committee meeting, the 28 members in attendance (on a committee…
by - October 12, 2015 5:11 pm
Thanks to a multimillion dollar award announced Friday (Oct. 9) from the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Arkansas will lead a new national center that will focus upgrading…
by - October 12, 2015 4:47 pm
The Arkansas Department of Correction must identify the manufacturer, seller, distributor and supplier of all lethal injection drugs used in executions by Oct. 21 or otherwise object to the disclosure,…
by - October 12, 2015 3:53 pm
August home sales in Arkansas’ four largest markets were off the pace of the previous three months, but sales for the first eight months of the year are up more…
by - October 12, 2015 11:00 am
There is potentially a $7 billion reason execs with Wal-Mart are leaning on their 10,000 suppliers with tighter price negotiations and payment terms tied to sale rates. Wal-Mart began in…
by - October 11, 2015 2:46 pm
The decision by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Thursday to drop out of the Speaker’s race capped a big week on Capitol Hill in which Arkansas lawmakers also…
by - October 9, 2015 11:48 am
The fruit basket turnover at play among the corporate executives continues at Wal-Mart Stores. The retailer announced Friday (Oct. 9) several key management changes among the top tier executives including…
by - October 8, 2015 7:38 pm
Sixty percent of Arkansas students taking the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam scored satisfactorily while similar scores were recorded in geometry and ninth and…
by - October 8, 2015 7:27 pm
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and the Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) will hold their first stakeholders’ meeting under Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) to discuss how to implement…
by - October 8, 2015 3:40 pm
John Selig, the director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services, announced in a DHS press release today that he will leave the department at the end of the year….
by - October 8, 2015 3:11 pm
Meat giant Tyson Foods got its start in the early 1930s on Emma Street in downtown Springdale. The third Tyson family generation led by John Tyson, grandson of the founder,…
by - October 8, 2015 8:28 am
It wasn’t that long ago when a third of Northwest Arkansas homeowners were chained to mortgages valued well above what their homes were worth. But prices have rebounded in Benton…
by - October 8, 2015 8:14 am
This week’s The Video Wire delivers news about a merger of two Arkansas media companies, playing laser tag inside Walmart (pew pew pew!) and a less than accurate report about…
by - October 7, 2015 7:56 pm
Fort Smith-based ERC is a step closer to becoming a Northwest Arkansas-based firm. The company is building a new 5,772-square-foot office building in Rogers that will be the new headquarters…
by - October 7, 2015 6:41 pm
Two workforce development grants totaling more than $110,000 from the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet to the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith are to fund programs designed to create career paths…
by - October 7, 2015 5:45 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., one of the most widely held public companies in the world, has been placed on sale by Wall Street in recent months. Management restructuring, significant investments in…
by - October 7, 2015 2:30 pm
The traditional Medicaid and private option programs are providing benefits to people whose best addresses are out of state, who never seemed to have lived in Arkansas, or who are…
