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During the study session before the regular board meeting Tuesday night (Feb. 23), the Fort Smith Board of Directors has asked city officials to look at ways to help residents…
by - February 23, 2021 1:23 pm
A decision on where in the United States to locate a pilot training center for the military’s Foreign Military Sales program has been indefinitely delayed because of the U.S. presidential…
by - February 23, 2021 11:05 am
Springdale-based real estate agency Weichert, Realtors-The Griffin Co. has acquired Ramona Roberts Realtors, a family-owned real estate business in Fort Smith that began in 1980. The business sale’s financial terms…
by - February 22, 2021 2:25 pm
Pinnacle Telecom, which began as a telephone company in Lavaca in 1941 and merged with Newroads Telecom in 2016, has sold to Oklahoma City-based Dobson Fiber. Terms of the deal,…
by - February 22, 2021 1:22 pm
Toledo, Ohio-based Owens Corning is building a new 550,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Fort Smith that will replace the existing plant the company built in 1984. The estimated $115 million project…
by - February 21, 2021 11:42 am
One hundred years of being in business is worthy of celebration, but in lieu of the COVID-19 pandemic, Baptist Health CEO Troy Wells says it’s prudent to wait until safer…
by - February 18, 2021 3:36 pm
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith will once again have in-person commencement ceremonies in May. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, graduation will be different than in years past, but…
by - February 17, 2021 4:29 pm
Because of unprecedented winter weather and a sudden shortage of natural gas from a supplier, Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corp. (AOG) has curtailed industrial and commercial customers in the Fort Smith…
by - February 16, 2021 4:25 pm
This week’s unusually extreme winter weather may have stopped many from getting their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but there is no need to worry, according to Rep. Dr….
by - February 14, 2021 3:50 pm
Tom Caldarera Jr., the popular restaurant owner and community leader who, along with his family, likely catered thousands of weddings, reunions, wakes and community events in the Fort Smith area,…
by - February 12, 2021 2:57 pm
Baptist Health Urgent Care will open its second Fort Smith location in April at 1910 S. Zero St. The center will be open seven days a week and offer evening…
by - February 11, 2021 6:01 pm
Leadership Crawford County has matured and grown over the last 20 years. Now, Crawford County’s formal program for leadership development of area professionals has for the first time in its…
by - February 11, 2021 2:52 pm
Kraft Heinz announced Thursday (Feb. 11) a deal to sell its Planters and other nuts businesses to Hormel for $3.35 billion. The cash deal includes most Planters products and the…
by - February 11, 2021 9:40 am
Fort Smith-based nonprofit Harbor House Inc., a certified behavioral health agency, recently hired Carl Norris as CEO. Norris, a longtime Fort Smith resident and consultant for the nonprofit’s board of…
by - February 10, 2021 1:33 pm
Since taking office for his first term as mayor in 2019, Joe Hurst has had to deal with record flooding of the Arkansas River and a year-long national pandemic. But…
by - February 8, 2021 6:57 pm
Baptist Health-Fort Smith and Mercy Fort Smith announced Monday (Feb. 8) a collaboration to invest $1 million in healthcare science programming at the Fort Smith Public School’s Peak Innovation Center….
by - February 8, 2021 12:01 pm
The new director of grounds management at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is focusing on three big things this year – more trees on campus, a Wi-Fi smart…
by - February 8, 2021 11:05 am
Arkansas’ wine industry has two new wine grape varieties. The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is offering new commercial options that are adapted for growing in Arkansas vineyards….
by - February 7, 2021 5:40 pm
The Fort Smith area said goodbye to a favorite son when they buried Ralph “Chad” Colley Jr. of Barling Thursday (Feb. 4). Colley, 76, died Jan. 30. He was a…
by - February 7, 2021 10:50 am
The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal is actively seeking nominations of qualified honorees for its annual recognition programs in 2021. They are: Fast 15: The Fast 15 program is designed to…
