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Fort Smith sales tax revenue dips again in July report

The city of Fort Smith saw a sales tax revenue dip again in July. The city’s share of the Sebastian County sales tax was $2.048 million in July, down 5%…

Interviews set for Fort Smith Regional Airport director applicants

Four candidates are on the Fort Smith Regional Airport director short list to be interviewed by the Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission in early September. One of the candidates is…

ADEQ: More wells required to better test Whirlpool pollution

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is asking an engineering firm hired by Whirlpool to install more cancer-causing chemical monitoring wells around the former Whirlpool plant in Fort Smith….

Executive Summary: Goodson’s library career began with the need for gas money

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…

Budgeting process, riverfront development part of Fort Smith Board strategy session

Reimagining the budgeting process, a better focus on riverfront development, and creating a public works department were some of the opportunity actions discussed by the Fort Smith Board of Directors…

Fort Smith Metro Daily News Briefs: Research dens, F-35 hearings, and Degen grants

Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. UAFS ‘Research Den’ The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is launching the “Research Den,” a new monthly series featuring…

Officials note ‘promise and progress’ of I-49 river bridge segment

Friday’s (Aug. 22) groundbreaking ceremony for the 3.1-mile stretch of Interstate 49 that will include an Arkansas River bridge was equal parts celebration of the progress and awareness of how…

Fort Smith lifts water conservation measure

The water tanks and reservoirs are full again – or full enough – in parts of Fort Smith, allowing city officials on Thursday (Aug. 21) to lift water conservation measures….

Levitt AMP music series returns to downtown Fort Smith

Main Street Fort Smith will bring music back to downtown Fort Smith with the Fall 2025 Levit AMP Fort Smith Music Series, starting in September. The 2025 series is the…

CBID, Main Street Fort Smith discuss coordinating on downtown efforts

In what began as a discussion about the need for a full-time director, members of the Central Business Improvement District (CBID) Commission agreed during a Thursday (Aug. 21) meeting to…

Fort Smith water meter analysis plan rebuffed by city board

A plan pushed by Fort Smith city staff to analyze and eventually modernize the city’s water meter system failed to get even a motion of support from the Fort Smith…

Foreclosure numbers decline 25% in the Fort Smith metro

The number of Fort Smith metro properties in some form of a foreclosure filing is down 25% in July compared with a year ago and much better than the national…

Fort Smith Board to seek applicants for city administrator

The search is set to begin for the next Fort Smith city administrator. The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Aug. 19) directed the city’s human resources office to…

Fort Smith Board tables action on acquiring, managing cemeteries

The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Aug. 19) tabled action on options to acquire or support four cemeteries in the city that cover around 105 acres. Cemetery managers…

Trane Technologies to expand Fort Smith plant, add more than 60 jobs

Trane Technologies plans to invest almost $6 million to expand manufacturing capacity at its Fort Smith plant. The expansion is expected to add 63 jobs to the 272 jobs now…

Work begins to rebuild Shamrock Liquor

Shirley Yeager and a few Shamrock Liquor Warehouse employees gathered Monday (Aug. 18) to celebrate a building permit that puts them on a path toward Yeager’s aggressive goal of re-opening…

UAFS sees big increase in freshmen, transfer enrollment

Changes in student recruitment, better access to financial support, and a new student “portal” at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) are factors in big enrollment gains among…

Job support, historic site funding, water meter money on Fort Smith board agenda

The Fort Smith Board of Directors has a packed agenda for its Tuesday (Aug. 19) meeting, with voting items to include a job incentive package, a resolution supporting National Historic…

Fort Smith Metro Daily News Briefs: UAFS award program, and the United Way campaign

Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. UAFS Business Awards The College of Economic Development of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is accepting nominations for…

Groundbreaking set for work on I-49 Arkansas River bridge

With some prep work either finished and underway, state and local officials are set to gather Aug. 22 in Barling to ceremonially break ground on construction of the Interstate 49…