by - July 7, 2015 2:06 pm
FFO Home – once known as Furniture Factory Outlet – is moving its corporate headquarters from Muldrow to Fort Smith, locating operations in a 180,000-square-foot part of a former Whirlpool warehouse that…
by - July 7, 2015 1:29 pm
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday (July 7) defended a plan to place a 10 Commandments monument on State Capitol grounds, while also on Tuesday Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said…
by - July 7, 2015 12:49 pm
Fort Smith City Clerk Sherri Gard has been elected president of the Arkansas City Clerks, Recorders, Treasurers Association (ACCRTA). City Administrator Ray Gosack said Gard’s leadership position is a reflection…
by - July 7, 2015 11:25 am
More economic development officials from around Arkansas are expected to attend the third year of the high-profile Walmart “Manufacturing Summit” now that it is being held in Bentonville, said Joey…
by - July 7, 2015 9:01 am
Dr. Amita Heaser is joining the Cooper Clinic department of Internal Medicine in Fort Smith. An adult medicine specialist, Heaser completed her medical training at Rush University Medical Center in…
by - July 6, 2015 6:13 pm
Fort Smith business leaders, working with the Fort Smith Public School District and the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, are moving forward with a plan to open by August…
by - July 6, 2015 5:18 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday (July 6) announced the members of the Career Education and Workforce Development Board, which replaced the State Board of Career Education at the Department of…
by - July 6, 2015 4:52 pm
Throughout Maggie Malloy’s life she has accumulated many things that would constitute “the good life,” but her enjoyment of life comes from much more than things. Graceful, energetic, and artistic,…
by - July 6, 2015 4:20 pm
Van Buren-based USA Truck is ranked No. 43 in the Journal Of Commerce’s Top 50 Trucking Companies for 2014. The Journal of Commerce and SJ Consulting Group annually rank the…
by - July 6, 2015 4:14 pm
Dr. Kristi Kindrick has joined Sparks Regional Medical Center’s geriatric-psychiatric unit, SeniorCare Behavioral Health. She will treat seniors who are admitted into the hospital. Kindrick’s primary focus will be caring…
by - July 6, 2015 12:48 pm
Business legends Steve Jobs and Don Tyson did it, and their successors Tim Cook and Donnie Smith also do it. That is they dressed down, so to speak, as CEOs…
by - July 6, 2015 9:58 am
Mike Preston, the new executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, sits in his fourth-floor office overlooking Capitol Avenue in downtown Little Rock on a sunny late-spring afternoon, sipping…
by - July 6, 2015 9:41 am
Arkansas, ever a peculiar place, either has two presidential candidates or none, unless you could say, as you probably can, that it has one more than it has the other….
by - July 5, 2015 6:19 pm
Recent numbers reflect well on the Fort Smith metro economy, but there remains a four-letter word that makes unpleasant a more in-depth conversation: Jobs. Positive economic headlines have been frequent…
by - July 5, 2015 2:24 pm
The number of enrollees in the Medicaid private option reached 218,376 at the end of June, an increase of about 4,000 from May, when it totaled 214,461. The number of…
by - July 5, 2015 2:02 pm
Some Iraqis are now beginning to say the country should be divided into regions composed of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Kurds have pretty much gone their own way, the…
by - July 5, 2015 1:32 pm
Congress may have been in recess for the 4th of July holiday, but members of the state’s congressional delegation were in Arkansas this past week talking to voters and discussing…
by - July 3, 2015 11:34 am
Kevin Thompson was appointed as the 2015-16 Emerging Leaders Section Council President at the Arkansas Bankers Association Leadership Conference in Fayetteville on Friday, June 26. Thompson is a 1998 graduate…
by - July 3, 2015 11:22 am
Book Signing with Anita Paddock Blind Rage Thursday, July 23, 2015 Begins at 4:00 p. m. with a program at 6:00 p. m. Join the Fort Smith Museum of History…
by - July 3, 2015 11:19 am
Fort Smith Museum of History Goldman Hotel Exhibit Opening Saturday, July 18, 1:00 pm Join the Fort Smith Museum of History on July 18 at 1:00 pm for an opening…
