by - October 5, 2017 6:05 pm
Fort Smith Police Chief Nathaniel Clark took office on Jan. 9 after being hired to replace former Chief Kevin Lindsey in late 2016. One of his first actions was to…
by - October 5, 2017 4:42 pm
After the Arkansas Parole board voted Thursday (Oct. 5) to deny clemency for death-row inmate Jack Greene, state Department of Correction (ADC) officials said everything is still on target for…
by - October 5, 2017 4:24 pm
Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen on Thursday (Oct. 5) filed a federal lawsuit against the Arkansas Supreme Court, saying Chief Justice Dan Kemp and the state high court’s…
by - October 5, 2017 4:04 pm
Fires are raging across the western United States and U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, has decided to act. Westerman has introduced a bill that would stop “fire borrowing,” a…
by - October 4, 2017 9:05 pm
Arkansas accountants might have been given the all clear to provide professional services to medical marijuana businesses in the state, but some of the largest accounting firms in Northwest Arkansas…
by - October 4, 2017 11:40 am
Filing deadlines for the Van Buren mayoral race are not until July 2018, but there is already one candidate and one endorsement. Van Buren City Planner Joe Hurst has announced…
by - October 3, 2017 11:45 pm
A planned Dollar General store that stirred controversy at a recent Fort Smith planning commission meeting has won approval to move forward from the city’s Board of Directors. The Board…
by - October 3, 2017 6:35 pm
Arkansas State University officials and civic leaders in Lawrence County hope to build a comprehensive disaster training facility at two sites in Lawrence County. The Delta Regional Authority dedicated $150,000…
by - October 3, 2017 6:06 pm
The state Department of Finance & Administration’s legal team is notifying nearly 100 companies who applied to win one of the eight highly sought-after pot-growing greenhouse licenses to let them…
by - October 3, 2017 1:54 pm
Arkansas’ economy continues to see broad-based growth in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 even as state revenue collections remained mostly flat, caused mainly by a continued decline in new…
by - October 2, 2017 7:11 pm
Arkansas’ contribution to the nation’s massive $1.4 trillion student loan bubble actually got smaller in 2014, moving the state off another “bottom ten” financial ranking of U.S. states with the…
by - October 1, 2017 9:44 am
Economist Mervin Jebaraj likes what he sees in the current economy, but has his eye on several metrics and semantics to gauge future economic growth. Jebaraj, interim director of the…
by - October 1, 2017 9:44 am
Time to unveil something new, something fun for the 2018 campaign season. You want to keep up with all of the folks announcing and running for office, don’t you? Who’s…
by - September 30, 2017 11:20 pm
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is putting his support behind a Senate resolution that a progressive Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group says will help big banks and other financial concerns take…
by - September 28, 2017 9:50 pm
Cody Hiland has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., who supported Hiland for the…
by - September 28, 2017 6:49 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson gave Craighead County $1.6 million to build a mental health crisis center and Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin has been on a mission to open a homeless shelter…
by - September 28, 2017 4:10 pm
The Fort Smith capital improvement plan (CIP) advisory committee for streets, bridges, and associated drainage approved a $133 million 5-year CIP starting in 2018 with a $29.9 million spend. The…
by - September 28, 2017 11:54 am
Like father, like son. Arkansas film commissioner Christopher Crane announced Thursday (Sept. 28) that he will seek the Pulaski Circuit and County Clerk seat now held by his father, Larry…
by - September 27, 2017 8:50 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission will apply for federal grant money to fill a $32.4 million funding gap that has prevented the Missouri Department of Transportation from completing a 4.8-mile…
by - September 27, 2017 7:54 pm
The Fort Smith Police Department (FSPD) has asked the city’s Board of Directors to consider approval of approximately $790,000 in unplanned expenditures that may help bridge the equipment gap in…
