by - May 18, 2018 1:50 pm
A Little Rock lawyer’s opportunity to get Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on the stand to defend her office’s repeated rejection of proposed voter referendums was stayed in Pulaski County Circuit…
by - May 18, 2018 1:18 pm
Three Benton County political candidates hosted a meet-and-greet event for young voters Thursday (May 17) at the Meteor Guitar Gallery in downtown Bentonville, just ahead of next week’s primary election…
by - May 17, 2018 9:38 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority’s decision to deny a second offer from Memco, Inc. “has nothing to do with Memco,” according to FCRA Secretary/Treasurer Don Keesee. On Thursday (May 17),…
by - May 17, 2018 8:11 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and a handful of other border-state governors will head to the White House on Monday (May 21) to discuss the nation’s immigration policy and meet with President…
by - May 16, 2018 3:01 pm
Farmers in Northeast Arkansas are working to finish planting this year’s crops, but the success of this year’s efforts won’t be known until harvest time several months down the road….
by - May 16, 2018 10:21 am
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (May 15) voted 6-0 with one recusal (Director Don Hutchings) to extend a waiver of building permit and inspection fees to the…
by - May 16, 2018 8:56 am
The World Trade Center Arkansas is expanding its partnership with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission with a new work space at the state agency’s offices in Little Rock. Launched in…
by - May 15, 2018 6:20 pm
The city of Fort Smith announced the hiring of two new department heads on Monday (May 14), filling the sanitation and streets/traffic control department slots. The city also filled the long…
by - May 15, 2018 5:19 pm
Voters in Arkansas State House District 53 will decide on May 22 if incumbent Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, will return to the legislature for a third term, or if challenger…
by - May 15, 2018 5:08 pm
Members of the Central Business Improvement District (CBID) on Tuesday (May 15) discussed a planned $160,000 truck and traffic study for downtown Fort Smith. This time, the emphasis was on…
by - May 15, 2018 1:25 pm
A Pulaski County judge involved in several key cases concerning state powers has ruled Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge must appear at an upcoming hearing on a constitutional challenge of…
by - May 13, 2018 9:49 am
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election for a number of reasons – including the fact that she’s a woman, but also because her campaign staff didn’t let her act like…
by - May 11, 2018 6:53 am
Business and government dignitaries from more than a dozen African countries convened in Bentonville Thursday (May 10) at the state’s first Trade with Africa Summit — a two-day event spearheaded…
by - May 10, 2018 7:06 pm
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has filed briefs with the Arkansas Supreme Court raising legal questions in the state’s expedited appeal of a Pulaski County Circuit Court decision to block the…
by - May 10, 2018 3:14 pm
A legislative task force on Thursday (May 10) compiled a working list of corporate and income tax exemptions that lawmakers will begin sifting through to decide if certain exclusions that…
by - May 10, 2018 1:44 pm
It would be too expensive to move the Arkansas state Capitol to influential Northwest Arkansas, so regional leaders will have to find ways to bridge the political passageway from inner-city…
by - May 10, 2018 9:21 am
In the latest survey from Talk Business & Politics and Hendrix College, Second District Democrats offered empirical proof of their overwhelming support for the state’s Medicaid expansion program and additional…
by - May 10, 2018 6:36 am
A nonpartisan group that monitors Arkansas judicial campaigns says its initial review of ads targeting Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson indicate the ads contain false and misleading information. The complaint…
by - May 9, 2018 7:39 pm
The Western Arkansas Intermodal Authority (WAIA, formerly RITA) has agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Port of New Orleans just two months after entering into a six-month…
by - May 9, 2018 7:22 pm
Chinese soybean buyers have stopped buying U.S. produced soybeans, and at this point in the growing season it’s mildly concerning, University of Arkansas at Monticello agriculture economist Dr. Robert Stark…
