by - September 27, 2015 2:57 pm
The Governor’s Working Group on Highways has been meeting for months to discuss possible solutions for short-term, medium-range and long-term funding goals to maintain and repair Arkansas highways. Currently, the…
by - September 27, 2015 2:53 pm
Arkansas’ federal lawmakers faced the resignation of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, received a visit from Pope Francis and criticized a federal agency’s response to a disaster in the Animas…
by - September 24, 2015 7:11 pm
The state should not develop its own costly individual insurance exchange and instead should probably continue using the one operated by the federal government, Gov. Asa Hutchinson told members of…
by - September 24, 2015 7:00 pm
Rumors that officials with KFSM 5 are looking to move the station’s primary studio and administrative offices from Fort Smith to Northwest Arkansas may be more than just rumors. The…
by - September 24, 2015 12:50 pm
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is hoping to cash in on the devaluation of the Chinese currency in recent weeks, and according to Reuters is now asking many suppliers in…
by - September 24, 2015 12:26 pm
Billy Idol, fried twinkies, cow manure, Beth Presley and Elvis Presley appear or are mentioned this week in the secret studio used by Dawson Meadows to conduct his brand of…
by - September 23, 2015 9:32 pm
Five of the state’s eight metropolitan areas experienced flat or weaker business growth in 2014 as Arkansas’ economic output fell well below the rest of the nation last year, according…
by - September 23, 2015 7:45 pm
Rumored corporate layoffs at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club offices in Bentonville persist, with five sources each telling The City Wire on Wednesday (Sept. 23) that the retail giant will begin…
by - September 23, 2015 5:46 pm
Consumers were a little more eager to spend mid summer perhaps spurred on by lower gasoline prices that saves the average two-car family between $100 to $200 per month according…
by - September 23, 2015 4:55 pm
The University of Arkansas is one of only 24 programs out of 346 Division I athletic departments that generated more revenue than they spent in 2014, according to the NCAA…
by - September 23, 2015 4:44 pm
Among the ideas being considered by the Governor’s Working Group on Highway Funding has been transferring some of the state’s 16,418 miles of roads to cities and counties. The Association…
by - September 22, 2015 8:52 pm
Thunderous applause from city employees in attendance at Tuesday's (September 22) study session of the Fort Smith Board of Directors hinted at a potentially contentious budget fight to come. The…
by - September 22, 2015 8:11 pm
Aaron's Inc. announced a deal on Tuesday (Sept. 22) to acquire all the outstanding stock of little known “nearprime” and consumer finance lender Dent-A-Med Inc. of Springdale for approximately $55 million in…
by - September 22, 2015 8:01 pm
The Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program of the Walton Family Foundation has singled out three local projects intended to improve public facilities that cater to children, the arts and history…
by - September 22, 2015 3:41 pm
The good news is that 74% of those participating in a recent survey like the grocery pickup models being tested by Walmart, however, just barely one in 10 of customers…
by - September 22, 2015 3:20 pm
The first half of 2015 continues to show that a resurgent Arkansas tourism economy during 2014 wasn’t an anomaly. Hospitality tax collections continue to set records, and tourism sector employment…
by - September 22, 2015 2:34 pm
Thomas Lionel Barton, a long-time poultry specialist at the University of Arkansas and friend to the local poultry industry, died Sept. 19 at age 78 in his Fayetteville home. Barton…
by - September 22, 2015 12:02 pm
Donnie Pendergraft and her family have donated $1 million to the U.S. Marshals Museum in honor of her late husband, Ross. The money will help build the Ross Pendergraft “Why…
by - September 21, 2015 9:57 pm
In an Arkansas National Guard hanger filled with military personnel and a phalanx of government and legislative officials at North Little Rock’s Camp Robinson, Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday (Sept….
by - September 21, 2015 9:41 pm
The 30-person group tasked to find a new mascot for Southside High School in Fort Smith first met Monday (Sept. 21), with committee chairman Wayne Haver charging them to consider…
