by - September 25, 2014 5:05 pm
How does a retailer or product supplier find the proverbial “Bubba” to review a deer hunting product? Or how would a property manager based in Fayetteville or Fort Smith quickly verify…
by - September 24, 2014 8:43 pm
For the third month in a row, Fort Smith sales tax collections have surpassed the same month last year. But even with the increase in revenues, sales tax receipts are…
by - September 24, 2014 8:23 pm
A study released by the personal finance website NerdWallet says if marijuana were legalized in the state of Arkansas, the economic and tax revenue impacts for the state could be…
by - September 24, 2014 7:04 pm
Wal-Mart continues its move toward big box banking by unveiling a new checking account partnership with Green Dot Corp. aimed at lower costs for its core customers. The GoBank FDIC…
by - September 24, 2014 5:08 pm
Ground was broken Wednesday (Sept. 24) on the U.S. Marshals Museum along the banks of the Arkansas River near downtown Fort Smith, an important step in moving the museum from…
by - September 24, 2014 2:42 pm
As pump prices across Arkansas retail locations move below the psychological $3 a gallon level, local price wars are igniting at strategic and high-traffic transportation hubs as consumers employ smartphone…
by - September 23, 2014 9:31 pm
An awards banquet held Tuesday night (Sept. 23) in Fort Smith honored the legacy of a man some say is single-handedly responsible for Fort Smith becoming the heart of manufacturing…
by - September 23, 2014 8:55 pm
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith introduced a variety programs Tuesday (Sept. 23) at its Board of Visitors meeting that it said would protect students from sexual assault and…
by - September 23, 2014 8:30 pm
Arkansas has jobs. Arkansas has people who need jobs. Arkansas has too many people who need jobs who can’t do the job. Those problems were the subject of a daylong…
by - September 23, 2014 7:47 pm
It was announced Tuesday (Sept. 23) that an important link in future infrastructure development along the Arkansas River could become a reality by the end of the decade. According to…
by - September 23, 2014 5:41 pm
Scott Van Laningham is “surprised” at the double-digit enplanement growth at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA). He didn’t think the pace of growth would return so soon. The pace…
by - September 23, 2014 5:24 pm
Consumers opened their wallets and purses a little wider mid summer, perhaps spurred on by lower utility bills and lower fuel prices, which boosted the region’s largest cities’ sales tax…
by - September 23, 2014 2:04 pm
Digital technology is looking like a major disruptor in not only retail, but also among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies according to a recent report from IRI and the Boston…
by - September 22, 2014 9:41 pm
It was a night full of data that may seem run of the mill or even ordinary to some. But according to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock economist…
by - September 22, 2014 7:15 pm
Bringing products to retail has donated the time of two local startups in recent weeks as Ecovet works to fulfill display orders for I.O.Metro and Overwatch reports a successful iOS…
by - September 22, 2014 6:51 pm
The U.S. Marshals Museum will break ground Wednesday (Sept. 24), the 200th anniversary of the Marshals Service's founding. But even with dirt moving at the planned museum's site along the…
by - September 22, 2014 5:27 pm
The second half of 2014 is off to a good start for the tourism and travel sector in the Fort Smith region based on hospitality tax collections in Fort Smith…
by - September 22, 2014 4:37 pm
The state’s first superproject has turned its first official shovel of dirt. “Welcome to steel mill heaven,” said John Correnti, Chairman and CEO of Big River Steel, which officially broke…
by - September 22, 2014 4:02 pm
With the memory of last winter still fresh on the mind of many and some weather websites and almanacs predicting a repeat or in some cases worse winter this year,…
by - September 20, 2014 10:42 am
Democrat Mike Ross and Republican Asa Hutchinson sat face to face across a table during a sometimes testy, occasionally snippy gubernatorial debate Friday night on KARK-TV that featured confrontations over…
