The assignment of $1.54 billion in special highway project funding contained within a road tax plan on the Nov. 6 election ballot includes $648 million for the central Arkansas area,…

Campaign tax plans are half-baked

U.S. presidential elections often produce half-baked proposals. The campaign websites of President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are loaded with 10-point plans to reform everything from education and…

LM Windpower to cut 234 jobs in Little Rock

Citing uncertainty over a tax credit provision and a slowdown in production, Danish wind turbine maker LM Windpower said it would lay off more than two-thirds of its Little Rock…

Boeing, SpaceX win $900 million in awards for spacecraft

Boeing Co. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. won $900 million in contracts from NASA to develop spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts, the agency said. Boeing received a $460 million award,…

Arkansas road plan pushed at chamber breakfast

Arkansas Highway Commissioner Dick Trammel and Arkansas Highway Department District 4 Engineer Joe Shipman addressed attendees at the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce First Friday Breakfast Aug. 3 in…

Chick-fil-A day: Boycotts often backfire

Throughout our history, Americans have periodically been forced to reckon with the moral and political impact of the goods and services they buy. Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was one such moment….

Newspapers Merge Photo Operations, Cut 5 Jobs

Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC will keep a staff of eight in its consolidated photography department.

Northwest Arkansas Newspapers announce job cuts

Five photographers will be laid off from the Northwest Arkansas Newspapers (NAN), with other cuts likely. Almost three years ago, Stephens Media and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Inc. merged operations in…

Gov. Mary Fallin issues statewide burn ban

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has announced that a ban on outdoor burning for all 77 Oklahoma counties is effective immediately. Oklahoma Forestry Services, a division of the Oklahoma Department of…

U.S. jobless rates rises to 8.3% in July

Payrolls in the U.S. climbed more than forecast in July, boosted by a pickup in employment at automakers, even as the jobless rate unexpectedly rose to a five-month high. The…

Fayetteville Underground hosts soft opening of new space

FAYETTEVILLE — The Fayetteville Underground is now at street level. Roughly eight months after members of the artist collective lost their lease on space they occupied on the basement level of…

Oklahoma court ruling threatens poultry industry in Arkansas

GDP up 4.3% in the third quarter, consumer confidence declines

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