by - March 24, 2017 10:35 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate touched another all-time low of 3.7% in February as the state’s brimming labor pool added nearly 1,500 new workers and nonfarm employment jumped by 15,600 between months,…
by - March 23, 2017 10:52 pm
Nearly 11 months after Gov. Asa Hutchinson held a historic ceremony to sign a memorandum of understanding with Shandong Sun Paper, the Chinese paper goods giant has filed its first…
by - March 23, 2017 9:30 pm
Lawmakers are engaged in another gunfight at the State Capitol again after the Arkansas Senate approved new efforts to overhaul a newly-enacted concealed carry law that the National Rifle Association…
by - March 23, 2017 6:25 pm
Fort Smith Regional Airport Director John Parker will retire on March 31 after 20 years with the facility and close to 10 as director. It’s not likely a new director…
by - March 23, 2017 4:55 pm
The office of Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday (March 23) announced the following appointments to boards and commissions. Bruce Alford, Lewisville, to the Red River Commission. Appointment expires Jan. 14,…
by - March 23, 2017 1:16 pm
Vice President Mike Pence will visit Little Rock Friday, according to the Republican Party of Arkansas. The vice president will make remarks at Little Rock Tours and Travel at 2:30…
by - March 22, 2017 6:34 pm
The Arkansas House of Representatives sent to the governor a bill that bans abortions performed for sex selection. It also advanced a bill requiring physicians to check with the state’s…
by - March 22, 2017 4:26 pm
U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, has not seen any changes to the American Health Care Act that would alter his opposition and he voiced his concerns over government’s role and…
by - March 22, 2017 3:51 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, supported by a phalanx of lawmakers and a representative from the National Rifle Association, signed controversial legislation into law on Wednesday that would allow concealed carry permit-holders…
by - March 22, 2017 2:34 pm
The House Insurance and Commerce Committee said no Wednesday to a bill that would have increased regulatory hurdles and reporting requirements for pipeline companies wishing to use eminent domain. House…
by - March 21, 2017 10:09 pm
The movement to merge Walnut Ridge and Hoxie into one town in Lawrence County is likely dead. The consolidation’s staunchest supporter, Walnut Ridge Mayor Charles Snapp, told Talk Business &…
by - March 21, 2017 6:20 pm
The Sebastian County finance department recently had to rescind an email that revealed 200 employees’ bank account numbers. According to a text message sent to Talk Business & Politics, the…
by - March 21, 2017 5:40 pm
Less than a month before the state of Arkansas is to begin executing eight men over an 11-day period, legislators Tuesday rejected bills that would prevent executions of mentally ill…
by - March 21, 2017 4:06 pm
Arkansas employers have reason to breathe a sigh of relief. Twenty-four years after the passage of the Arkansas Civil Rights Act, the General Assembly has finally closed some significant loopholes…
by - March 21, 2017 3:30 pm
Arkansans will honor Dr. Martin Luther King – and only King – the third Monday of January next year after Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a bill into law Tuesday (March…
by - March 20, 2017 5:59 pm
A key program that is part of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s workforce initiative to retrain and retool Arkansas’ blue collar-focused labor pool for a more technology-oriented economy could be at risk…
by - March 20, 2017 5:48 pm
The Arkansas House voted against banning manufactured edible medical marijuana products, voted to move party primaries permanently to March, and concurred in Senate amendments on a bill requiring voters to…
by - March 20, 2017 2:57 pm
Fort Smith closed 2016 in a final unaudited report submitted Saturday (March 18) that showed slight gains in the city’s sales tax collections for December and the year as a…
by - March 20, 2017 1:56 pm
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Monday that would require offenders sentenced three times previously to the Department of Correction to serve at least 80% of their sentences on…
by - March 20, 2017 11:44 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson continued his administration’s efforts to boost the state’s effort in the computer sciences field with the formation of the Blue Ribbon Commission to Report on the Economic…
