by - July 12, 2017 8:11 am
Two residential developments in the Bentonville’s Market District west of 8th Street Market have changed hands for a combined $1.45 million. A group of investors in northeast Arkansas — through…
by - July 12, 2017 6:34 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has selected Walnut Ridge businessman, farmer, and outdoors enthusiast Stan Jones to serve on the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Jones farms more than 7,000 soybean and…
by - July 10, 2017 5:37 pm
Lesa Walter has been fascinated by numbers since she was young, and civic and business leaders hope she’ll be able to move Lawrence County’s economic indicators in a positive direction….
by - July 9, 2017 9:29 pm
Jonesboro’s sales tax receipt collections continued to grow at a record rate in June. The largest metro in Northeast Arkansas collected $1.393 million in city sales and use tax in…
by - July 7, 2017 3:48 pm
Farmers may no longer use the herbicide dicamba following a decision Friday (July 7) by the Arkansas Legislative Council Executive Subcommittee to take no action on a ban implemented by…
by - July 5, 2017 5:49 pm
Arkansas rice farmers will still likely harvest a little more than 1 million acres this fall despite damaging flood waters earlier this spring that impacted much of Northeast Arkansas. But…
by - July 5, 2017 12:25 pm
At least one company that isn’t authorized to sell dicamba in Arkansas after April 15 thinks the governor and the state’s Plant Board are wrong to ban its sale and…
by - July 1, 2017 8:37 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced on Friday (June 30) that he would send two controversial rules involving dicamba approved by the State Plant Board to the Arkansas Legislative Council for final…
by - June 28, 2017 3:36 pm
The Delta Regional Authority and Americorps have expanded their joint program, DeltaCorps, in Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Arkansas. DeltaCorps added 16 members at seven sites in those states, expanding…
by - June 27, 2017 4:39 pm
There’s hope that a farmer in Arkansas will produce 120 bushels of soybeans on one acre this year. “Grow for the Green,” the perennial competition that challenges the state’s soybean…
by - June 26, 2017 7:47 pm
Peco Foods, Inc. needs to hire up to 250 more workers at its Pocahontas plant and has plans for a $30 million expansion, plant manager Alan Risley told Talk Business…
by - June 25, 2017 9:48 am
Although President Donald Trump is advocating a hard-line stance with Cuba, Arkansas’ First District Congressman Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, thinks legislation he is pushing has a narrow window to pass. A…
by - June 25, 2017 8:27 am
The Arkansas State Plant Board issued an emergency ban Friday preventing the use and sale of the herbicide dicamba. The ban comes after more than 240 filed damage complaints, according…
by - June 21, 2017 7:16 pm
Arkansas had a record low unemployment rate in May of 3.4%, and Northeast Arkansas has followed that unprecedented trend. Craighead County has an unemployment rate of 2.5%, its lowest mark…
by - June 21, 2017 6:08 am
The Arkansas State Plant Board has received more than 50 complaints about drift from the dicamba herbicide in 2017, and the board voted 11-3 to severely restrict its use but…
by - June 20, 2017 4:20 pm
Dr. Guiliana Medrano’s company, GeneCoMe Biotech, had a potentially revolutionary concept. Chickens are fed antibiotics to ward off diseases such as salmonella and Listeria. The company hoped to develop natural…
by - June 20, 2017 6:37 am
When Kelly Grooms stepped on to the stage of the newly established Downtown Playhouse in Pocahontas, it was a place he knew well. More than a quarter century earlier, he…
by - June 19, 2017 3:34 pm
An intramural battle among Republicans for a coveted state senate seat has sparked in northern Arkansas. State Rep. James Sturch, R-Batesville, will muster a primary challenge to incumbent State Sen….
by - June 15, 2017 8:21 pm
President Donald Trump has declared 13 Arkansas counties as disaster areas after powerful floods and tornadoes ripped through the state in late April and early May. Individual residents in Benton,…
by - June 14, 2017 6:47 pm
An Arkansas County cattle rancher told Talk Business & Politics he will seek the Democratic nomination next year and challenge U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, for Arkansas’ First Congressional District…
