by - October 16, 2025 11:46 am
The founders of Creekside Learning Academy plan to break ground at 10 a.m. Friday (Oct. 17) on an 8,000-square-foot infant and child day care center near the Arkansas Colleges of…
by - October 15, 2025 2:06 pm
“Hard choices” will be required to balance the city of Fort Smith’s general fund budget, which has posted a deficit in recent years. That was the message Tuesday (Oct. 14)…
by - October 14, 2025 8:48 pm
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is partnering with the Wounded Warrior Project on an event set for Oct. 20 designed to help connect veterans, active-duty members, and families…
by - October 14, 2025 11:28 am
A lawsuit filed to force a December special election to fill the vacant Arkansas Senate District 26 seat should be dismissed because it “failed to state a claim” that requires…
by - October 13, 2025 4:08 pm
The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal is accepting nominations for its third annual Northwest Arkansas Outstanding Business Awards recognition program. Arvest Bank is the sponsor. The Business Journal’s newest awards program…
by - October 13, 2025 11:36 am
Whirlpool has agreed to some of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) requests to do more to monitor and mitigate cancer-causing pollutants around the former Whirlpool Fort Smith plant….
by - October 13, 2025 10:26 am
A review of applications for the open Fort Smith city administrator job shows that 38 people applied online between Sept. 2 and Oct. 6, with only seven of the applicants…
by - October 12, 2025 1:56 pm
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 - October 12, 2025 1:08 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Oct. 14) is set to vote on annexation of property in south Fort Smith, and to consider an agreement with Ghan &…
by - October 11, 2025 11:31 am
Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Food Insecurity Talk The Democratic Party of Sebastian County is presenting a food insecurity program 6 to 7:30 p.m., Oct….
by - October 10, 2025 12:47 pm
A recent lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., by seven city of Fort Smith officials and employees cost just under $15,000, but the city spends considerably more than that with a…
by - October 9, 2025 12:16 pm
A majority of year-over-year job gains in the Fort Smith metro in August were from the Trade, Transportation, Utilities and Education and Health Services sectors. Smaller gains were reported in…
by - October 8, 2025 5:00 pm
Attorney Jen Standerfer hopes for a “fair and reasoned” result with the Oct. 15 hearing on a lawsuit seeking to expedite a special election in Senate District 26. Pulaski County…
by - October 8, 2025 12:24 pm
After a nationwide search, the Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission hired airport employee Andrew Meyer as airport director. He succeeds Michael Griffin who resigned April 22, and Meyer’s first day…
by - October 8, 2025 12:06 pm
Hospitality tax revenues in the Fort Smith metro are down compared with 2024, but tourism officials believe the year will end not far off from last year, which was a…
by - October 7, 2025 3:25 pm
Speaking to several hundred people Tuesday (Oct. 7) at the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce annual banquet, Finland Ambassador Leena-Kaisa Mikkola dropped a bit of holiday humor into a…
by - October 7, 2025 1:57 pm
In a recent conversation with Ryan Gehrig of health system Mercy, he offered insight on the company’s Rogers hospital and its 75th anniversary, the future of regional health care, and…
by - October 6, 2025 7:24 pm
Franklin County resident Colt Shelby has filed a lawsuit in Pulaski County Circuit Court with the hope of forcing a special election in December for the Senate District 26 seat…
by - October 6, 2025 11:32 am
August enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport were up almost 2% in August, but traffic out of the airport between January and August continues to trail activity from the…
by - October 5, 2025 8:42 am
Rep. Lee Johnson, R-Greenwood, is a physician and a policy maker, which makes his opinion worth weighing. He’s also vice-chair of the House Insurance Committee and a member of the…
