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Madison Marsh is beyond busy. The Fort Smith native will graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy in June. After that, she plans to attend the Harvard Kennedy School of…
by - March 28, 2023 5:49 pm
Open for less than a year, Fort Smith Public School’s Peak Innovation Center has flooded for the second time. District officials said Monday (March 27) that a heavy rainstorm Thursday…
by - March 28, 2023 4:09 pm
Tyson Foods may have violated the Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA) in the effort to close large poultry processing operations in Van Buren and Glen Allen, Va., according to Peter…
by - March 28, 2023 1:55 pm
Alma native Dr. Shane Jennings has been named chief medical officer for Baptist Health’s operations in western Arkansas, and Christian Gross has been hired as vice president of operations at…
by - March 27, 2023 5:55 pm
Fort Smith sales tax reports continue to show a positive picture of the regional economy – and also the ongoing impact of inflation – with sales tax revenues about 8%…
by - March 24, 2023 4:20 pm
Longtime journalist and community promoter Lynn Wasson has been named interim executive director of the Fort Smith Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) following the March 20 resignation of former director…
by - March 23, 2023 4:07 pm
A debate over books has cost Crawford County in recent months more than $65,000 in severance pay and attorney fees. The county is being asked to pay a $26,000 legal…
by - March 22, 2023 4:53 pm
Fort Smith Board of Directors voted Tuesday (March 21) to give an incentive allowing roughly $5 million in sales tax abatement to bring a retail company to Fort Smith, even…
by - March 22, 2023 4:44 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (March 21) revised the city’s animal regulation ordinance that will require dogs and cats to be spayed or neutered. The city first…
by - March 21, 2023 3:08 pm
It was a happenstance meeting between Derek Campbell and Griffin Hanna during a beer tasting at Papa’s Pup & Pizzeria in downtown Fort Smith that an idea was born to…
by - March 20, 2023 7:13 pm
City Administrator Carl Geffken announced Monday (March 20) Boyd Waters as the next Fire Chief of the Fort Smith Fire Department. Waters has served as the interim chief since Fire…
by - March 20, 2023 6:55 pm
The Fort Smith Police Department on Monday (March 20) launched a new campaign to promote responsible gun ownership. The Gun-Smart Campaign aims to educate gun owners on the importance of…
by - March 20, 2023 3:03 pm
ABF Freight, the less-than-truckload (LTL) subsidiary of Fort Smith-based ArcBest, has agreed to pay a $535,000 penalty to resolve allegations that the company violated requirements of the Clean Water Act…
by - March 20, 2023 12:09 pm
Little Rock business incubator ReMix Ideas announced details Monday (March 20) of a bus tour in Northwest Arkansas to promote Black-owned businesses. The Black Ownership Bus Tour will visit Bentonville,…
by - March 19, 2023 6:51 pm
When news hit Monday (March 13) that Tyson Foods would close its chicken processing plant in Van Buren, folks in Fort Smith and Van Buren got busy working on how…
by - March 16, 2023 7:32 pm
With Wednesday’s (March 15) news that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) will place its foreign pilot training center at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, the University of…
by - March 16, 2023 1:17 pm
Now that Fort Smith will be home to the U.S. Air Force’s foreign pilot training center, hundreds of apartments and homes will be needed to house those coming to the…
by - March 15, 2023 1:46 pm
While Singapore pilots have been most associated with the foreign pilot training center to be based in Fort Smith, it will be F-35 pilots from Poland who are expected to…
by - March 15, 2023 11:04 am
It’s official. Fort Smith will be home to a foreign military pilot training center, initially bringing more than 500 military personnel and an estimated 300 “dependent families” to the city…
by - March 14, 2023 9:52 pm
After a lengthy discussion on whether a library can reconsider or ban a book, the Crawford County Library Board voted to take action on one of four books in the…
