by - February 14, 2022 6:49 pm
The Fort Smith Public School District is on its way to becoming a Purple Star District in a move district officials hope will show commitment to serving military-connected families living in…
by - February 10, 2022 5:21 pm
The city of Fort Smith has spent roughly $18,000 defending the choice to remove a flag display from the city’s Riverfront Park. The city removed seven flags that made up…
by - February 10, 2022 4:33 pm
Melissa Shaw Sikes has taken the reins as the new executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds Cancer Support House and the Cancer Support Foundation which is based in Fort…
by - February 9, 2022 5:41 pm
The Community School of the Arts (CSA) received a $750,000 grant from the Mabee Foundation to support its Inspiring Excellence campaign to build a new Center for the Creative Arts…
by - February 9, 2022 5:25 pm
Grizzly Gear, the school-based enterprise (SBE) at Northside High School, is among 461 school-based enterprises achieving Gold Certification for the 2021-2022 school year. This is the 10th consecutive year that…
by - February 8, 2022 9:19 pm
A proposed new standard operating procedure for leak adjustments through the Fort Smith Utilities Department was shot down during a Fort Smith Board of Directors study session Tuesday night (Feb….
by - February 8, 2022 5:12 pm
Air travel is slowly returning to Fort Smith, but at levels still well below those prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport in 2021 totaled…
by - February 7, 2022 7:02 pm
With positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 returning to pre-winter break numbers, the Fort Smith Public Schools Board of Education repealed a mandatory mask requirement reinstated Jan. 10 during a called…
by - February 7, 2022 4:28 pm
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith provost, one of four vice chancellors at the university, said Monday (Feb. 7) she will retire at the end of the 2022 fiscal…
by - February 3, 2022 4:53 pm
The Fort Smith metro began 2022 on good footing as the new year began and kept that momentum through the first month of the year. The metro’s three largest cities had…
by - February 3, 2022 4:16 pm
Van Buren-based USA Truck reported 2021 net income of $24.768 million, more than five times 2020 net income and a record for the trucking and logistics company. Full year revenue…
by - February 2, 2022 5:26 pm
Developers broke ground Tuesday (Feb. 1) on a new subdivision in Greenwood that will eventually bring 251 new homes to the third largest city in the Fort Smith metro area….
by - February 2, 2022 4:25 pm
A Republican primary is set for the newly drawn Arkansas Senate District 27 seat which represents Fort Smith and parts of Chaffee Crossing with Kelly Proctor Pierce entering the race….
by - February 2, 2022 10:16 am
Baptist Health has named Lawrence Montgomery as the system’s chief marketing officer and John Goodman as corporate vice president of oncology, pharmacy and respiratory services. Montgomery previously served as executive…
by - February 1, 2022 9:08 pm
At the first of two scheduled virtual public scoping meetings concerning the Air Force’s proposal to put a permanent Foreign Military Sales Pilot Training Center at Ebbing Air National Guard…
by - February 1, 2022 3:30 pm
Details of a collaborative effort by the city of Fort Smith, Sebastian County and the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Area (FCRA) plans for a new dog park slated to open this…
by - February 1, 2022 9:08 am
For the second consecutive quarter, Fort Smith-based ArcBest posted revenue above $1 billion, and full-year net income of $213.521 million was three times the $71.1 million in 2020. Full-year earnings…
by - January 31, 2022 5:36 pm
Sebastian County Circuit Judge Gunner Delay has once again ruled that the city of Fort Smith must get a waiver from the Arkansas Historic Commission about the removal of the…
by - January 27, 2022 5:31 pm
The U.S. Air Force is conducting what amounts to two virtual town halls in early February to provide info and seek comments about a plan to locate a foreign military…
by - January 27, 2022 4:46 pm
Though Steve Dimmitt is serving as the interim director, the city of Fort Smith is looking for a new director of Information & Technology Systems (ITS). ITS Director Russell Gibson…
