by - January 20, 2022 9:03 pm
In the first of five scheduled sales tax information and discussion meetings held by Fort Smith City Directors Thursday night (Jan. 20) concerning a possible election to continue two sales…
by - January 20, 2022 8:41 pm
Felix Curry has been named head football coach at Northside High School in Fort Smith, succeeding Mike Falleur who led the program for nine years. Curry recently worked as Northside’s…
by - January 20, 2022 6:25 pm
COVID-19 may have caused the Future School of Fort Smith to take classes virtual starting Jan. 14, but students have not missed their breakfast and lunches. When child nutrition staff…
by - January 19, 2022 5:19 pm
Active cases of COVID-19 have been growing by the thousands daily across the state for the last two weeks. The high number of cases have led many to take extra…
by - January 19, 2022 7:57 am
Fort Smith-based shipping and logistics company ArcBest has invested $25 million in Phantom Auto, a Silicon Valley-based provider of remote vehicle operation software. According to an ArcBest news release Wednesday…
by - January 18, 2022 7:41 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Jan. 18) approved the purchase of an advanced flood warning system on North 66th Street, and gave the final nod to renaming…
by - January 17, 2022 1:28 pm
Significant contributors to the Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith metro business community died in 2021. JANUARY Tom Foltz Jr., 83, Jan. 3 — During a long business career, Foltz served…
by - January 14, 2022 4:24 pm
With almost 13,000 new COVID-19 cases reported in Arkansas Thursday (Jan. 13) and 2,621 active cases in Sebastian County, the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) has decided to…
by - January 13, 2022 6:01 pm
U.S. Marshals Museum President and CEO Patrick Weeks has a court date set for Feb. 15. Weeks was arrested Dec. 21 on two felony charges of aggravated assault with a…
by - January 13, 2022 5:09 pm
Fort Smith attorney Joey McCutchen is appealing a decision by Circuit Court Judge Greg Magness that said the city of Fort Smith did not violate the open meetings provision of…
by - January 12, 2022 4:29 pm
The Fort Smith Parks and Recreation Commission voted at its January meeting Wednesday (Jan. 12) to send a recommendation to the Fort Smith Board of Directors to name the city’s…
by - January 12, 2022 3:27 pm
The city of Fort Smith might have prevailed in a lawsuit filed against them in December alleging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) violations in regard to proposals related to 0.75%…
by - January 11, 2022 8:39 pm
The city of Fort Smith is working to replace a city dog park that was closed the first of December, and City Administrator Carl Geffken announced during a Fort Smith…
by - January 10, 2022 8:09 pm
Fort Smith Public Schools voted Monday (Jan. 10) at a called board meeting to reinstate a mask mandate for 30 days or unless the district falls to 49 or less…
by - January 10, 2022 5:42 pm
Sebastian County Election Commission Chairman David Damron, who refused in late 2021 to discuss who drew a map outlining new zones for the Sebastian County Quorum Court, resigned his position…
by - January 10, 2022 3:15 pm
The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) is set to begin work on the Interstate 49 connection between Alma and Fort Smith that will span the Arkansas River, but significant construction…
by - January 6, 2022 6:53 pm
With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreading quickly through Sebastian County, the Future School of Fort Smith Board of Directors voted Thursday (Jan. 6) at a special called meeting to…
by - January 6, 2022 5:00 pm
Because of numerous construction challenges, Fort Smith Public School’s Peak Innovation Center will not open until late March. The FSPS school board was told in November the facility would be…
by - January 6, 2022 3:51 pm
Siloam Springs-based Simmons Foods on Thursday (Jan. 6) announced plans to invest $100 million in its prepared foods plant in Van Buren. Company officials said the upgrade will add 100…
by - January 5, 2022 1:08 pm
The more transmissable Omicron variant of COVID-19 has not led to a major uptick in COVID-positive patients in Fort Smith hospitals. There were a record 6,562 new Arkansas cases of…
