by - January 12, 2023 6:24 pm
A proposed ordinance that would give all non-uniformed Fort Smith city employees, except the city administrator and internal auditor, a raise effective April 3 is on the agenda for the…
by - January 11, 2023 6:01 pm
A more than 16% gain in outbound shipments and gains in sand, gravel, rock and iron/steel shipments resulted in a 2.94% gain in commercial tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River…
by - January 10, 2023 9:13 pm
Aging infrastructure, a shortage of repair workers, and a deep winter freeze were primary reasons for 43.4% more leaks in 2022, a pending list of 371 leaks at year end,…
by - January 10, 2023 10:33 am
Significant contributors to the Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith metro business community died in 2022. JANUARY Eldon Long, 67, Jan. 20 — Long was elected mayor of Lowell for two…
by - January 9, 2023 3:58 pm
Cynthia Coughlin of Bentonville has been appointed to the U.S. Marshals Museum Foundation Board of Directors, bringing the board number to 20. After many years of delays, the Fort Smith…
by - January 5, 2023 11:42 am
The Fort Smith Board of Directors has approved a plan to install a military flag display at the Fort Smith Riverfront Park where the Flags over Fort Smith display once…
by - January 4, 2023 3:38 pm
The $435 million sale of Van Buren-based USA Truck to a company based in Germany, and Fort Smith voter approval of a tax extension package valued at more than $210…
by - January 3, 2023 5:12 pm
Fort Smith, Greenwood, and Van Buren building permits totaled $480.376 million in 2022, almost $140 million more than the $343.289 million in 2021. The 39.9% increase sets a significantly higher…
by - January 3, 2023 3:38 pm
The city of Mulberry is set to receive $4 million in federal dollars for infrastructure work in and around its industrial park near the Interstate 40 interchange, according to a…
by - January 2, 2023 5:32 pm
For the first time in 2022, Fort Smith sales tax numbers came in lower than anticipated. The city’s portion of the Sebastian County sales tax totaled $1.938 million in November,…
by - December 27, 2022 5:03 pm
Peggy Watson was the Sebastian County Circuit Clerk when Cindy Gilmer began working in the office. Gilmer, then a recent Ouachita Baptist University gradate, began her public career handling child…
by - December 22, 2022 11:11 am
With what is atypical quick action for Congress, a bill designating the Butterfield Overland Trail as a National Historic Trail was approved Thursday (Dec. 22) by the U.S. House of…
by - December 21, 2022 4:09 pm
An effort to designate an historic trail partially located in Arkansas as a National Historic Trail is one step closer following approval in the U.S. Senate of legislation sponsored by…
by - December 20, 2022 6:13 pm
After concern was voiced by several residents, books with alternative lifestyle narratives opposed by a Christian group, are being moved in libraries in the Crawford County Library System to keep…
by - December 15, 2022 8:48 am
Commercial tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River through November totaled 10.124 million tons, up 2.7%, with outbound and internal shipments driving the growth, according to figures from the U.S. Corps…
by - December 15, 2022 8:45 am
A new low-income apartment complex is being built on the north side of Fort Smith near the Arkansas Oklahoma Fair grounds. Fort Smith Housing Authority Executive Director Mitch Minnick said…
by - December 14, 2022 7:29 am
The Fort Smith Board of Directors passed two ordinances at its regular meeting Tuesday (Dec. 13) that will give the mayor and seven directors a 200% and 680% raise, respectively….
by - December 13, 2022 5:30 pm
The Fort Smith Public Schools Board of Education awarded a constructor manager at risk contract to Conway-based Nabholz Construction for a drainage and additional parking lot project at the FSPS…
by - December 13, 2022 10:50 am
ArcBest Chief Financial Officer David Cobb will retire in October 2023 after 17 years with the Fort Smith-based shipping and logistics company. The company has not yet named a successor….
by - December 12, 2022 4:48 pm
Like most of the country, the Fort Smith metro is seeing an increase in the flu and other respiratory illnesses as the holidays approach, but officials with area hospitals say…
