by - July 21, 2025 5:31 pm
The Fort Smith Boys & Girls Club (FSBGC), along with hundreds of other clubs around the country, are scrambling to restart ongoing and planned programs after an 18-day freeze of…
by - July 21, 2025 2:09 pm
The “delivery station” permitted at 4300 Geren Road in Fort Smith will be an Amazon facility, according to property records. The building permit for the facility was issued by the…
by - July 20, 2025 1:45 pm
Approval of a $125,000 expenditure to move forward on a possible plan to replace waters meters is part of the consent agenda during Tuesday’s (July 22) Fort Smith Board of…
by - July 19, 2025 1:18 pm
There is nothing new reported almost 11 months after the Fort Smith Public School District hired a Texas legal firm to consider legal action against companies involved in the design…
by - July 19, 2025 12:57 pm
Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Main Street Anniversary Main Street Fort Smith, which began as 64.6 Downtown, plans to mark its 10th anniversary with a…
by - July 17, 2025 7:49 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) Board of Trustees on Thursday (July 17) passed a resolution to allow more time for property owners to complete building projects on land purchased…
by - July 17, 2025 9:50 am
ArcBest Chair and CEO Judy McReynolds will retire as CEO at the end of 2025, ending 28 years as a company employee, including the past 15 as its top executive,…
by - July 16, 2025 1:25 pm
Fort Smith Director Christina Catsavis said Tuesday (July 15) that it’s time to permanently park the downtown Fort Smith parking meter discussion and move to a vote to remove the…
by - July 16, 2025 12:03 pm
The City of Fort Smith may be down to two candidates in the lengthy and bumpy search for director of internal audit, according to Director Lee Kemp, who is the…
by - July 16, 2025 9:42 am
The Hope Campus in Fort Smith, which provides temporary housing and support services to homeless people, is in “rough” financial shape, is implementing staff cuts and possibly a “serious reduction…
by - July 15, 2025 7:09 pm
The City of Fort Smith is being asked to “assume responsibility” for Roselawn, Holy Cross, Forest Park, and Washington cemeteries – properties which contain more than 55,000 graves on more…
by - July 15, 2025 10:23 am
Amanda Hagar said when being named executive director of Main Street Fort Smith in July 2024 she wanted to learn more about opportunities within the downtown area and what visitors…
by - July 14, 2025 1:05 pm
Meetings expected in March to restart efforts toward dissolution of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) didn’t happen, and those involved say such efforts are on a slower track because…
by - July 14, 2025 11:39 am
The Fort Smith Board of Directors is set Tuesday (July 15) to interview two candidates – James Carter and Jason Mitchell – for the long-vacant internal auditor position. The board…
by - July 13, 2025 10:58 am
Editor’s note: The Fort Smith Metro Daily News Executive Summary series is focused on looking under the title, so to speak, of a business, government, and non-profit executive in the…
by - July 12, 2025 1:20 pm
Education and Health Services sector jobs in the Fort Smith metro rose more than 5% between May 2024 and May 2025, the largest percentage growth among major metro job categories,…
by - July 12, 2025 12:44 pm
Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Creative Arts The Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA) has announced that in the fall of 2025 concurrent enrollment will…
by - July 10, 2025 3:33 pm
High water levels and Trump’s tariffs are key factors in the almost 20% decline in Arkansas River tonnage in the first half of 2025. Commercial river tonnage in June was…
by - July 10, 2025 10:44 am
Fort Smith metro building activity in June rose along with the temperatures. Building permits issued in Fort Smith, Greenwood, and Van Buren totaled $58.484 million in June, up 236% from…
by - July 9, 2025 4:05 pm
ArcBest officials said a recent electric semi-truck test indicates “meaningful progress” in the technology, but more evaluation is needed before the Fort Smith-based shipping and logistics company adds the vehicles…
