by - September 20, 2017 3:42 pm
Jim and Wanda Lee Vaughn spent their professional careers as educators and the couple decided to give much of their estate back to their college, Arkansas State University. The couple’s…
by - September 19, 2017 4:01 pm
Water use is critical to any successful farm and a new irrigation-regulating system has been developed by the private company, Smart Farm Inc. The Intelligent Irrigation System allows for precision…
by - September 18, 2017 7:26 pm
Flood waters hampered rice planting this season and the remnants of Harvey and Irma poured rain and winds on rice fields ready to harvest late in the summer. Arkansas produces…
by - September 18, 2017 4:50 pm
Wild pollination has been in sharp decline in recent years and there is a movement to create “wild pollination zones” on the periphery of farms, said Dirk Philipp, associate professor…
by - September 17, 2017 5:21 pm
Arkansas State University’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday to enter into separate land-lease agreements to build disaster preparedness test sites. One is a 183-acre plot owned by the city…
by - September 13, 2017 6:31 pm
Dirt work for the new Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden County is nearly finished, and the foundation slab could be poured in the next several weeks, County Judge Woody Wheeless told Talk…
by - September 13, 2017 12:58 pm
President Donald Trump has selected Christopher Caldwell to be the next Delta Regional Authority co-chairman. Caldwell, who works as U.S. Sen. John Boozman’s special projects director, is a seventh generation…
by - September 12, 2017 1:49 pm
Hurricane Harvey threatened to stop one of the marquee events at the 7th Annual Beatles at the Ridge festival Sept. 15-16 in Walnut Ridge. Two stewardesses that worked on the…
by - September 11, 2017 7:03 pm
A Dicamba Task Force charged with providing the Arkansas State Plant Board with a recommendation about the use of the controversial herbicide, will recommend it not be allowed for use…
by - September 11, 2017 11:58 am
It’s taken economic developers more than three years, but a 500-acre swath in southern Wynne near Highway 1 has been certified as a technology/industrial park. No announcements are imminent, but…
by - September 8, 2017 3:57 pm
Arkansas State University’s incoming international student population dropped 75% this fall. In 2016 the school had 124 first-year international students and it has declined to 34 this year. The trend…
by - September 6, 2017 6:38 pm
Walmart has pledged to spend an additional $250 billion to buy American made products through 2023 and the big spending push will benefit Nice-Pak, a company that makes a variety…
by - September 6, 2017 3:02 pm
Hurricane Irma, shaping up to be the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic, has already impacted Northeast Arkansas. Cancellation of one of the most highly anticipated college football…
by - September 6, 2017 8:39 am
Arkansas State University Campus Queretaro welcomed its first 250 students when it opened on Monday. ASUCQ is a private foundation led by Mexican businessman Ricardo González. He and his partners…
by - September 5, 2017 4:05 pm
The Marion Advertising and Planning Commission will spend $25,000 on an advertising campaign to lure high paid workers from adjacent towns and cities to live in Marion. Specific targets include…
by - August 31, 2017 6:16 pm
A once popular restaurant in Jonesboro is set to return. Haag Brown Commercial announced Thursday a new Steak ‘n Shake will open on Parker Road near the Malco Theater and…
by - August 31, 2017 6:11 pm
Record economic growth continued in Craighead County and its seat, Jonesboro, during August according to sales tax receipts and unemployment figures. Jonesboro collected $1.543 million in city sales and use…
by - August 31, 2017 1:24 pm
The remnants of Hurricane Harvey shifted north and east Thursday and Arkansas farmers readied themselves for potential impacts. The National Weather Service predicted up to 10 inches of rain could…
by - August 30, 2017 6:18 pm
The city of Jonesboro’s CFO Suzanne Allen tendered her resignation Wednesday afternoon. She’s leaving the city to take a private sector job and her last day with the city will…
by - August 30, 2017 5:33 pm
The United States has more than 2 million farmers and the median household incomes are projected to increase by less than 1% this year to $76,831 as compared to 2016….
