by - November 7, 2023 7:19 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Nov. 7) approved a five year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for the Fort Smith Fire Department with $3.385 million in estimated budgeted…
by - November 7, 2023 5:24 pm
Family and friends of the late Jim Walcott gathered Tuesday (Nov. 7) to rename the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Family Enterprise Center (FEC) after Walcott. Renaming was supported…
by - November 6, 2023 4:52 pm
Downtown Fort Smith will soon have a new dining option with the planned Nov. 14 opening of Prima Italia at 720 Garrison Ave. – inside the building that was once…
by - November 6, 2023 4:13 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Nov. 7) will consider a resolution approving a five-year capital improvement plan for the city’s streets, bridges and drainage system that will…
by - November 3, 2023 1:23 pm
An infrastructure project officials have pursued for decades will soon be built. The River Valley Slackwater Harbor project on the Arkansas River in Crawford County will receive a $15.096 million…
by - November 3, 2023 9:09 am
A recent graduate of Northwest Technical Institute (NWTI) in Springdale placed third in a national skills competition for technicians. Joshua Waldrep of Fort Smith was third overall at TMCFutureTech. The…
by - November 2, 2023 3:25 pm
AOG natural gas customers in the Fort Smith area will see winter rates fall 51.8%, with all natural gas customers of Summit – AOG’s parent company – in Arkansas receiving…
by - November 1, 2023 5:10 pm
Fort Smith metro area construction activity – based on building permit values – dropped in October compared to last year, but year to date the activity is 8% above where…
by - October 30, 2023 5:16 pm
While the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Board of Trustees have remarked often in meetings that they want to see Deer Trails Golf Course in Chaffee Crossing stay a golf course, no…
by - October 27, 2023 10:32 am
Quarterly and year-to-date income and revenue is down for Fort Smith-based ArcBest, primarily a result of an environment in which the shipping and logistics company is handling less freight and…
by - October 26, 2023 5:15 pm
The $186 million-expansion to add ICU and emergency room space and more than 160 jobs at Mercy Fort Smith is on schedule and expected to be complete by early 2025….
by - October 25, 2023 6:33 pm
Fort Smith’s share of the Sebastian County 1% sales tax was up more than 4% compared with September 2022, according to the September sales tax report released by the city….
by - October 25, 2023 12:27 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday (Oct. 24) that will expand a new residential construction moratorium near the Fort Smith Regional Airport for two more…
by - October 25, 2023 12:14 pm
Architects behind the Arts on Main building in downtown Van Buren, buildings at Thaden School in Bentonville, and the Jim Rollins Elementary School of Innovation in Springdale were some of…
by - October 24, 2023 5:39 pm
Shortly after kicking off its capital campaign, the Fort Kids Museum has already raised close to $1.5 million for a new children’s museum in Fort Smith. A recent luncheon pushed…
by - October 24, 2023 4:26 pm
With a new employee tasked full-time with finding available grants, the City of Fort Smith is hoping to make every city – and taxpayer – dollar stretch as far as…
by - October 24, 2023 8:53 am
Caitlin Draper of Fayetteville announced Tuesday (Oct. 24) she is running for Congress. Draper, a 34-year-old Democrat, will vie for the seat occupied by U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, a 66-year-old…
by - October 23, 2023 4:29 pm
The $1.17 million sale of an auto service center on Rogers Avenue in Fort Smith was the top Sebastian County property deal during August and September, according to information provided…
by - October 22, 2023 4:23 pm
Fort Smith Mayor George McGill touted the many merits of Fort Smith during a “Focus on the Future: A Heart-to-Heart Conversation” with high school and college students at the University…
by - October 22, 2023 9:16 am
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, isn’t hiding his frustration from more than two weeks of a Speaker-less House of Representatives. “We are a fractured, stubborn, divided bunch right now,” said…
