by - May 21, 2024 3:30 pm
Fort Smith Public Schools have met all the requirements suggested by the Arkansas School Safety Commission thanks to a $595,000 school safety grant. Part of the grant money is paying…
by - May 21, 2024 3:14 pm
Progress is being made to build the long-awaited slackwater harbor in Van Buren. An engineering firm has been hired to conduct the environmental impact review, and advertising for design work…
by - May 20, 2024 8:16 pm
Fort Smith Board of Directors members agreed Monday (May 20) that more citizen involvement might be necessary before they make any decisions on increasing water rates later this year. Because…
by - May 20, 2024 6:14 pm
City officials are questioning census data that shows the Fort Smith population declined over the past year. According to U.S. Census Bureau data released May 16, Fort Smith’s population declined…
by - May 20, 2024 6:10 pm
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) seeks to address an estimated shortage of more than 200 nurses in the Fort Smith metro by restarting its nursing degree program,…
by - May 16, 2024 6:08 pm
Fort Smith, the third most populous city in Arkansas, had an estimated 0.034% population decline in 2023 with population trends likely to see the city fall to the fourth largest…
by - May 16, 2024 5:33 pm
So much for getting off to a good start. The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) Board of Trustees passed a resolution Thursday (May 16) that rejects calls for the trust…
by - May 16, 2024 7:26 am
According to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, Centerton is the sixth-fastest growing city in the United States among cities with at least 20,000 residents. Meanwhile, Fayetteville was one…
by - May 15, 2024 5:21 pm
Arkansas River shipping continues to build upon 2023 gains, with 4.569 million tons carried on the river in the first four months of 2024, up 8% compared with the same…
by - May 15, 2024 5:13 pm
The Fort Smith Parks and Recreation Commission discussed a $46 million wishlist of projects for the next five years during at Tuesday (May 14) study session with the Fort Smith…
by - May 14, 2024 8:29 pm
The Fort Smith Planning Commission voted four to three against unified development ordinance (UDO) amendments that would create a Military Compatibility Area Overlay District some city officials have said are…
by - May 14, 2024 9:50 am
The traffic trend continues to be positive at the Fort Smith Regional Airport in early 2024 after a disappointing 2023. Airport enplanements through April total 18,745, up 7.6% compared with…
by - May 13, 2024 5:02 pm
Fort Smith’s mobility master plan is looking to create nine miles of new greenways, rehabilitate alleyways and improve B Street mobility. The city also is pursuing a $25 million grant…
by - May 13, 2024 10:41 am
Fayetteville-chartered Arvest Bank has tapped longtime executive Rodney Shepard of Fort Smith as regional executive, effective immediately. According to a news release Monday (May 13), he will oversee the company’s…
by - May 12, 2024 11:12 am
The U.S. Marshals Museum is the third location for a touring exhibit created by the Cherokee Nation that focuses on the tribe’s “painful moments” with slavery, especially with the Cherokee…
by - May 10, 2024 8:46 am
Duplexes near the Arkansas River Valley Nature Center at Chaffee Crossing sold for $7.195 million, making the deal the largest Sebastian County property sale in February, according to the office…
by - May 9, 2024 5:01 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority and its board of trustees have received a list of conditions agreed upon by the trust’s four beneficiaries regarding dissolution of the FCRA trust but…
by - May 9, 2024 12:38 pm
Candidate packets for the City of Fort Smith Board of Directors election are now available in the City Clerk’s Office, 623 Garrison Ave. This year, the four ward positions –…
by - May 9, 2024 9:50 am
Jeannie Cole, former Fort Smith Public Schools school board member, will be the first chair of the board of directors for the Fort Smith-based Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA),…
by - May 8, 2024 9:31 am
Representatives from the four beneficiaries of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) met privately April 23 to discuss ideas about the dissolution of FCRA and agreed upon 15 conditions to…
