by - March 18, 2015 12:55 pm
As natural gas drillers and oilfield equipment firms continue to cut their capital spending in the Fayetteville Shale, there are already signs that severance tax collections in Arkansas began to…
by - March 18, 2015 12:20 pm
Dr. Carla Swearingen has been named the dean of faculty development and director of the Teaching and Learning Center at John Brown University in Siloam Springs. She will assume her…
by - March 18, 2015 11:25 am
The 25th Annual Riverfront Blues Festival will be June 26 – 27 at Harry E Kelley Park. This year the “Best Little Blues Festival in America” will once again feature…
by - March 18, 2015 11:24 am
The 25th Annual Riverfront Blues Festival will be June 26–27 at Harry E Kelley Park. This year the “Best Little Blues Festival in America” will once again feature some of…
by - March 18, 2015 11:18 am
The 25th Annual Riverfront Blues Festival will be June 26 – 27 at Harry E Kelley Park. This year the “Best Little Blues Festival in America” will once again feature…
by - March 18, 2015 10:21 am
Beautify Fort Smith is hosting our annual spring litter pickup from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. at the Central Mall parking lot on Rogers Avenue. This is…
by - March 17, 2015 8:57 pm
The 2015 Compass Conference will focus on downtown Fort Smith development, with the soon-to-be-renovated Masonic Temple to provide a unique venue and format for sixth annual event. “Banking on Downtown…
by - March 17, 2015 8:52 pm
Efforts by Fort Smith city staff to move quickly on a plan to raise sewer rates to pay for federally-mandated system improvements hit a snag when City Director Tracy Pennartz…
by - March 17, 2015 8:31 pm
It’s been a decade in the making but the region’s first interactive children’s museum has announced an opening date and a new name in honor of Lee and Linda Scott…
by - March 17, 2015 4:26 pm
Keeping with his campaign rhetoric, Gov. Asa Hutchinson met with reporters on Tuesday to tout three measures designed to realign workforce education efforts in Arkansas. He also talked about a…
by - March 17, 2015 2:22 pm
Grocery is a business of thin margins but it is about 56% of Wal-Mart’s total annual U.S. sales. Getting it right is of the upmost importance to Walmart U.S. CEO…
by - March 17, 2015 2:05 pm
Labor market numbers moved in the right direction for Arkansas during January, with the number of employed up more than 3%, the workforce size up more than 2% and unemployment…
by - March 17, 2015 1:39 pm
Officials with Parrot Island Waterpark announced Tuesday (March 17) the start of hiring 100-150 part-time employees for the aquatics facility now under construction at Ben Geren Regional Park. The almost…
by - March 16, 2015 7:50 pm
A House legislator facing questions in an adoption scandal resigned his committee leadership post Monday afternoon, while several education bills including two on workforce training sailed through the state Senate….
by - March 16, 2015 6:09 pm
United States Senator Tom Cotton last week wrote a letter to the Iranian Ayatollah, stating that the President’s on-going nuclear negotiations with the terrorist state are ill conceived and non-binding….
by - March 16, 2015 5:53 pm
The possibility of rising interest rates, easier loan requirements and rising rental costs are helping to nudge more first-time homebuyers into the market, a dynamic that is playing out in…
by - March 16, 2015 5:25 pm
Rules providing a one-year permit and flexibility in the number of moves in that year were some of the preferred ideas supported by members of the Fort Smith Planning Commission…
by - March 16, 2015 2:40 pm
Central Arkansas will play host next month to a two-day, first-of-its-kind Arkansas Manufacturing Innovation Summit where companies across the state will be able to spotlight cutting edge manufacturing innovations and…
by - March 16, 2015 2:02 pm
Logistics giant J.B. Hunt Transport Services posted healthy revenue and profits in 2014 which translated to hefty bonuses for the company’s top executives, according to the company’s Proxy filing with…
by - March 15, 2015 11:44 pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has recently acquired Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/ White Flower No. 1, (1932, oil on canvas), which will debut in a focused exhibition, Georgia O’Keeffe:…
