Fort Smith

Fort Smith metro jobless rate rises in May

A drop in the overall civilian labor force and an increase in the number of unemployed pushed the Fort Smith metro unemployment rate from 7.6% in April to 7.8% in…

Nobody likes Congress

Democrats hold an edge over Republicans in November.

Fort Smith directors critical of cost-cutting process

Fort Smith City Administrator Dennis Kelly’s ongoing process to cut the budget is not meeting with complete approval from at least three Fort Smith city directors. On June 23, Kelly…

Arkansas Razorbacks: How the 2010 football season plays out

story by Gary Brown, president of College Sports Matchups (CSM is a content partner with The City Wire) Playing in the SEC makes winning football games difficult every year, but…

Spring 2011 targeted for convention center vote

A financial and management plan on how to fix the convention center funding shortfall is likely to go before Fort Smith voters in spring 2011, with the early consensus of…

Arkansas banks stay off FDIC’s failed bank list

Arkansas banks have managed to stay off the FDIC’s notorious "failed bank list" more than two years after the spectacular and surprising collapse of Northwest Arkansas-based ANB Financial in May…

Battle On The Border

Battle On The Border Blakemore Field 2201 Alma Blvd. Van Buren, AR July 20 7:30 p.m. Battle On The Border Bands at 7:30 p.m. featuring seven DCI bands…

SEC Early Look: How hot is Richt’s seat at Georgia?

story by Chris Rushing, College Sports Matchups (CSM is a content partner with The City Wire) For all intents and purposes, no one can look at the 10 years Mark…

Local and statewide support, opinions mixed on restaurant tax

Fort Smith restaurateur Eddie York says a small group of local restaurant owners and the Arkansas Hospitality Association will band together to kill any attempt to gain voter approval of…

Women not as active in entrepreneurship as men

A recent study finds that women entrepreneurs often need more personal encouragement.

Crawford County JP stopped for DWI

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Crawford County Quorum Court member DeWite Deshazo was arrested by Van Buren police on June 17 for suspicion of DWI. The police report states Deshazo…

Allens pours $13.5 million into Van Buren expansion

Siloam Springs-based Allens Inc. formally announced Monday (June 28) a more than $20 million expansion that includes a $13.5 million investment in the company’s Van Buren operation. Allens, which claims…

Arvest receives top J.D. Power ranking

Arvest Bank ranked Highest Customer Satisfaction with Retail Banking in the South Central Region in the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Retail Banking Satisfaction Study. This is the second consecutive…

Online dangers

Survey from Cox shows teens don’t appreciate risks.

“Wilbur and Orville and Me”

Local pilot, author and student of history, Doug Kelley, will talk about the art and mystery of flight from the Wright Brothers first fragile successes through the development…

National trucking index dips in May; up year-to-date

The national economic recovery may come with ups and downs based on the dip in the May Truck Tonnage Index from the American Trucking Associations. According to the ATA, trucking…

Keet says he’s in gubernatorial race to win

abridged story by Ethan Nobles, rogue journalist, recovering attorney and owner of First Arkansas News Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat, is supposed to be a shoe-in for governor according to…

Liberals fail economics 101

Now comes Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel Klein with an interesting piece of research for those who sometimes, frequently or hourly wonder why some folks support government laws, programs and social-engineering…