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Saline Health System named Amy Rice as its new chief financial officer. Rice has more than 20 years of healthcare financial executive leadership experience, including serving as chief financial officer…
by - December 2, 2025 5:24 pm
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Maulden-Entergy chair and Donaghey Distinguished Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has received a $5 million award to research and develop…
by - December 2, 2025 2:55 pm
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center, one of the Heritage Sites at Arkansas State University, will host a bus tour in December. The event will be held Dec. 13. There…
by - December 1, 2025 9:02 am
The Fairfield Bay Community Club (FFBCC) announced its acquisition of the Cobblestone Inn & Suites, a hospitality property located in Fairfield Bay. The purchase secures continued operation of the hotel…
by - December 1, 2025 8:53 am
Hendrix College received a $10 million endowment challenge grant from Little Rock’s Windgate Foundation, marking one of the largest single investments in the college’s history. Hendrix is preparing to celebrate…
by - November 30, 2025 8:42 am
As a guest on this week’s Talk Business & Politics D.C. Edition podcast, U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, discussed his upcoming appearance in south Lonoke County at next weekend’s Arkansas…
by - November 25, 2025 6:05 am
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $1.5 million, multiyear grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to create a new graduate-level certificate program focused on…
by - November 20, 2025 8:52 pm
The Conway City Council passed an ordinance establishing an entertainment district in The Village at Hendrix at its meeting last Tuesday. The ordinance takes effect 30 days from the meeting,…
by - November 20, 2025 4:56 pm
Amazon’s largest fulfillment facility in Arkansas will be shuttered indefinitely, and thousands of full and part-time employees will be laid off with pay while structural repairs are completed. Company spokesman…
by - November 18, 2025 7:58 pm
The partnership between U.S. Steel and its new owner, Japan-based Nippon Steel, is allowing U.S. Steel to advance a $3 billion investment at its Big River Steel Works complex in…
by - November 18, 2025 6:29 pm
Insight Leadership Group, a Fayetteville-based leadership development, executive coaching and management training company, is accepting applications for the 2026 Insight Executive Leadership Academy. Cohorts will be hosted in Northwest Arkansas…
by - November 18, 2025 3:59 pm
Windsor Door completed its $2 million strut line investment expansion to speed production and delivery of garage doors, the company announced Tuesday (Nov. 18). Since Windsor Door’s production line came…
by - November 18, 2025 3:55 pm
All Crews & Associates employees and First Security Bank Little Rock banking, lending, trust and wealth management, and corporate credit staff are moving to the new First Security Park complex…
by - November 18, 2025 3:51 pm
CARTI completed its $19 million comprehensive cancer center in El Dorado. Patients, physicians, government officials and community supporters joined the not-for-profit cancer care provider last Thursday (Nov. 13) to recognize…
by - November 16, 2025 5:12 pm
Gov. Sarah Sanders on Sunday (Nov. 16) begrudgingly relented to two court orders requiring her to set new special election dates for Arkansas Senate District 26 in western Arkansas and…
by - November 15, 2025 10:13 am
Philander Smith University has received a $19 million unrestricted gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the largest single contribution in the Little Rock university’s 147-year history. “This gift is a resounding…
by - November 14, 2025 3:25 pm
High water levels, river system maintenance, and tariff uncertainty are key factors in an almost 19% drop in tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River system in the first 10 months…
by - November 13, 2025 12:51 pm
Treaty Oak Clean Energy LLC announced a 15-year power purchase agreement with Google for 100 megawatts from the 1,033-acre Redfield Solar Project located in southeastern Grant County in Arkansas. Google…
by - November 13, 2025 12:46 pm
Ann Chou, professor for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, is leading a $2.2 million community-based study that addresses access to…
by - November 13, 2025 7:40 am
Little Rock-based retailer Dillard’s reported Thursday (Nov. 13) higher sales and stronger profits over its year-ago third quarter. Total retail sales for the 13 weeks ending Nov. 1 were $1.401…
