by - November 22, 2016 2:38 pm
The number of distressed home sales in Northwest Arkansas — including bank-owned (REO) sales, sales of homes actively in foreclosure and short sales — continues to drop. According to a…
by - November 22, 2016 2:36 pm
Tyson Foods is preparing for a management shift and it’s only the second time in the company’s long history where the incoming CEO is not a veteran employee of the…
by - November 22, 2016 2:31 pm
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith and Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas in Rogers are two of the five hospital in Arkansas to receive the top “A” rating from the national nonprofit Leapfrog…
by - November 22, 2016 2:10 pm
Mark Gaston Pearce, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, spoke recently in Fayetteville about how the federal agency has adapted to change in its 81-year history of enforcing the…
by - November 22, 2016 1:48 pm
Members of Arkansas’ Congressional delegation may reintroduce some version of legislation introduced earlier this year to halt one of the nation’s largest renewable energy infrastructure projects that will cross the…
by - November 22, 2016 10:39 am
The end may soon arrive for a rare “inventory overhang” that has been an earnings drag on J.B. Hunt, ArcBest (ABF Freight), USA Truck and other national and regional trucking…
by - November 22, 2016 10:34 am
Optimistic attitudes among consumers buying on credit helped to fuel more large household purchases for Arkansas residents in the past six months, according to the final report from the Fall…
by - November 22, 2016 9:02 am
Editor’s note: Ken Smith is the policy director for Arkansas Advanced Energy Association. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted in this space are wholly the view of the author(s). They…
by - November 22, 2016 9:00 am
Arkansas Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway) has been named chief executive officer for a Conway-based startup that makes door lockdown devices for schools, homes and churches. Rapert takes the lead at…
by - November 22, 2016 8:45 am
Becky Keogh, director of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, said she and her staff had recent meetings with officials at Sun Paper Industry of China on pre-engineering and environmental…
by - November 22, 2016 8:18 am
Dr. Scott Osborn, a co-founder of Fayetteville water technology company BlueInGreen, has been named Engineer of the Year by the Arkansas section of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological…
by - November 22, 2016 8:12 am
Motorists in Arkansas should expect to see a lot of orange highway barrels and traffic strangleholds across the state as low gas prices spur many families to hit the roads…
by - November 22, 2016 7:59 am
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Department of Education teamed up to establish a $1.2 million pilot program providing telemedicine to students, educators and families in rural…
by - November 21, 2016 5:58 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Monday that he has not spoken to President-elect Donald Trump and doesn’t know when Trump will decide if two Arkansas elected officials will be part of…
by - November 21, 2016 5:55 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday made Little Rock native Kimberly O’Guinn his second appointment to the state Public Service Commission while governor. She replaces outgoing Commissioner Lamar Davis who resigned…
by - November 21, 2016 5:45 pm
William Duke and Nicolas Nahas, students at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts in Hot Springs, were among the regional finalists in the Siemens Competition in Math,…
by - November 21, 2016 5:31 pm
The global commercial smoke detector market could hit $2 billion in revenue by 2020, according to a new report from Technavio. The research firm’s report, entitled “Global Commercial Smoke Detector…
by - November 21, 2016 10:38 am
Editor’s note: Ruth Whitney is founder and CEO of InVeritas, a global public affairs firm. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted in this space are wholly the view of the author(s)….
by - November 21, 2016 10:15 am
Congress will consider legislation that would require the Secretary of Commerce to assess and analyze outdoor recreation economic impacts nationwide. House bill 4665 (H.R. 4665) is now under consideration by…
by - November 21, 2016 9:52 am
Long-time Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration Deputy Director and Commissioner of Revenues Tim Leathers will join inVeritas as vice president of consulting, effective January 1, 2017. Leathers will be…
