Fort Smith

Reeves makes permanent stand in Fort Smith

FORT SMITH — Into the Territory, a bronze statue of U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves, was a sight to behold in the late springtime sun as the sculpture was unveiled…

Brunch at River City Deli

River City Deli is excited to announce that we will begin to serve brunch every Sunday from 11:00 – 4:00 in addition to our regular menu. Each week will feature traditional brunch foods along with unique specials and signature champagne cocktails. Join…

Homes gone in 60 minutes a signal of U.S. recovery?

BLOOMBERG — For the latest sign of a U.S. housing rebound, Toll Brothers Inc. Chief Executive Officer Douglas Yearley points to Hoboken, New Jersey: A couple torn between two condos…

ATU-Ozark names new student recruitment coordinator

John “Jack” Phillips IV of Walnut Ridge has been named its new coordinator of student recruitment for the Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus. A graduate of the University of Central Arkansas,…

Texas Twang returns to Neumeier’s Rib Room

FORT SMITH — When you find local musicians and owners of other night clubs in the crowd, you know it’s going to be a good show. Hayes Carll played to…

U.S. economy shows signs of cooling

BLOOMBERG — Companies placed fewer orders for computers, machinery and other capital equipment in April for a second month, indicating manufacturing in the U.S. is cooling. Bookings for non-military goods…

Car-Mart rolls to higher profits

Bentonville-based America's Car-Mart continues to outperform Wall Street expectations posting double-digit net income growth in its fourth quarter and fiscal 2012, which ended April 30. The buy here, pay here…

Adam & Eats: Pupuseria Virolena

This week’s adventure takes us back to my new found love, the pupusa. This time around we eat at a place that has been every kind of eatery imaginable, but…

Northwest Arkansas Newspapers hires efficiency firm

Nearly three years after Stephens Media and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Inc. merged operations in Northwest Arkansas, the union has yet to achieve the expected financial security. The joint venture, Northwest…

CBID, Chaffee competing for sports facilities

Commissioners of the Central Business Improvement District (CBID) know they’re in for a fight for the affections of soccer and volleyball groups in the Fort Smith region, but it’s a…

HP layoffs likely to hit Arkansas

The announcement that tech giant Hewlett-Packard will lay off 27,000 workers worldwide sent reverberations through Arkansas economic circles, particularly in Conway where the company opened a 1,000 employee, $28 million…

Rheem layoffs not a sign of departure

Rheem Manufacturing laid off 16 salaried jobs at its Fort Smith plant and a distribution center in Lewisville, Texas, on Thursday (May 24), but a company official says the move…

Arkansas political leaders note ‘degrees of divisiveness’

Terry Rice and Uvalde Lindsey may soon be on opposite ends of a more divisive political arena come January, but both say they don’t want Little Rock politics to morph…

Obama health care hangs on business clause

BLOOMBERG — When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the justices said next to nothing about racial equality, the ideal that drove the landmark law’s enactment….

Table Matters: Arsaga’s great crepe adventures

FAYETTEVILLE — Cary Arsaga, founder of a half-dozen Arsaga’s coffee shops and once a mayoral candidate in this town, has mortgaged his house and businesses in pursuit of a cafe…

Fayetteville energy sector shines brighter

FAYETTEVILLE — The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, Daniel Poneman, presented a local company with a $150,000 grant for innovative energy research on Wednesday, May 23, as he visited the…

College crackup and the online future

In the coming decade, emerging technologies will thoroughly transform higher education. Although distance learning and computer-assisted education have been around since the 1960s, financial pressures are forcing institutions to develop…

Agribusiness Weekly Update: More meat going to cold storage

Beef U.S. beef packer margins averaged about $10 per head last week, according to Hedgers Edge. A year ago packers were just breaking even. Bob Wilson at Hedgers Edge said…

GOP dominates NWA, Fort Smith legislative seats

Political control of Arkansas’ House and Senate will be a point of numerous media stories between now and November, but Republicans are clearly in the majority in the Northwest Arkansas…

Q&A with Bass Reeves impersonator

T. Baridi Nkokheli, director of sanitation for the City of Fort Smith, has depicted U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves on behalf of the city since 2007. As the unveiling of…