by - May 31, 2022 10:29 am
While Fort Smith’s sales tax revenue remained higher than budgeted in April, the amount was much lower than in the past year. The city’s share of the Sebastian County sales…
by - May 26, 2022 4:54 pm
Chris Carter, a Fort Smith native and Northside High School graduate, has been named as the next Northside High School principal, Fort Smith Public Schools announced Thursday (May 26). Carter…
by - May 26, 2022 1:22 pm
Making certain students are prepared for the future, being good stewards of taxpayer dollars and promoting transparency in the district are the main goals for the three new board members…
by - May 25, 2022 6:29 pm
Little Rock-based Preserve Arkansas has received preliminary grant approval from a national trust to conduct an assessment of historic St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, which is set for demolition…
by - May 25, 2022 1:21 am
Sebastian County Treasurer/Collector Steve Hotz survived a three-person GOP primary race without a runoff and will be the next Sebastian County Judge. No Democrats filed for any of the county’s…
by - May 25, 2022 12:53 am
Republicans Rep. Justin Boyd and Sen. Gary Stubblefield survived primary challenges for Arkansas Senate district seats in the Fort Smith metro. Rep. Lee Johnson, R-Greenwood, also defeated a challenger in…
by - May 25, 2022 12:07 am
With 97% of the totals reported in Tuesday’s (May 24) primary election in Crawford County, Kevin Holmes won the nonpartisan prosecuting attorney race, but none of the candidates for the…
by - May 24, 2022 11:56 pm
There will be three new faces on the seven-person Fort Smith Public School Board. The unofficial election Tuesday (May 24) results from the Sebastian County Clerk showed all but one…
by - May 24, 2022 10:34 pm
Fort Smith voters on Tuesday (May 24) extended two sales tax extensions that will pay for federally mandated sewer system improvements, an across-the-board police pay increase of 23.87%, fire department…
by - May 23, 2022 7:13 pm
Dr. Shadow JQ Robinson has been named the new provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith starting July 1. Robinson, 46, will…
by - May 23, 2022 12:14 pm
The $1.47 million sale of 16 duplex lots in north Fort Smith was the largest Sebastian County property transaction in April, with a medical office building near Central Mall in…
by - May 22, 2022 8:11 pm
Fort Smith Public School District officials were less than open – especially to the public – about causes of delays in opening the district’s Peak Innovation Center. The delays, often…
by - May 22, 2022 10:29 am
Last call for the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s longest-running awards program has arrived. The Forty Under 40 deadline for the Class of 2022 is Friday, May 27. You can submit nominations…
by - May 20, 2022 10:56 am
Paramount+ has plans to produce a Bass Reeves limited series as part of its “Yellowstone” spinoff “1883.” State and local officials are mum about any chance all or parts of…
by - May 19, 2022 10:14 am
If Fort Smith voters do not approve a proposed continuation of a 1% sales tax in the city, residents may see a 58% increase to their sewer bills to fund…
by - May 19, 2022 9:36 am
Residents might breathe easier knowing the Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith metros have some of the cleanest air in the United States, a new report shows. Nonprofit American Lung Association…
by - May 18, 2022 7:12 pm
Only four of the 13 Fort Smith Public School Board candidates filed their required “campaign contribution and expenditure report” by the May 17 deadline, according to documents provided by the…
by - May 18, 2022 6:31 pm
If Lockheed Martin and Airbus win a U.S. Air Force award for an aerial refueling system, the two companies plan to locate the manufacturing facility for the project in western…
by - May 18, 2022 4:51 pm
Searcy-based First Security Bancorp is formally opening its second Fort Smith branch on Thursday (May 19), with preliminary plans to open a third area branch in Chaffee Crossing in 2024….
by - May 18, 2022 3:15 pm
Commercial tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River in the first four months of 2022 was 3.515 million tons, up 1.9% thanks to a 45.8% rise in shipments between ports on…
