by - August 11, 2016 12:16 pm
The third annual El Dorado Film Festival is set for Sept. 15-18 in El Dorado, Ark. This year’s festivities will feature celebrity judge and Arkansas native Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing…
by - August 11, 2016 12:10 pm
Bella Vista has opened the first section of its new Back 40 mountain bike trail, according to a press release from TravelArkansas. The section is 15 miles and will be…
by - August 11, 2016 11:06 am
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Startup Talk,” a round-up of startup, technology and entrepreneurial news. ––––––––––––––– PENTAGON HOPES WORLD’S FIRST ALL-MACHINE HACKING, BOT-HUNTING CONTEST WILL LEAD TO BETTER…
by - August 11, 2016 10:51 am
Fifty-three leaders from eight states, including nine from Arkansas, graduated from the Delta Leadership Institute Executive Academy, a year-long leadership program that prepares them to address issues in the Mississippi…
by - August 11, 2016 10:13 am
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce encountered a new and potentially serious problem that could hurt the state’s jobs market when they toured the Remington Arms Company Inc. in Lonoke…
by - August 11, 2016 8:53 am
Communications Sales & Leasing Inc.’s on Thursday (Aug. 11) reported that its second quarter earnings fell into the red as the state’s only publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)…
by - August 10, 2016 4:13 pm
On Wednesday’s Talk Business & Politics Daily digital newscast KATV’s Janelle Lilley examines three ads airing out of state involving Donald Trump as a political weapon. In our Inside the…
by - August 10, 2016 3:50 pm
Sebastian County Sheriff Deputy Bill Cooper died following an early Wednesday morning shootout near Hackett with suspect Billy Jones. Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck praised Cooper as a “perfect example”…
by - August 10, 2016 3:40 pm
Hunter Riley and John Godwin found themselves in Chicago, a long way from the North Little Rock neighborhood where they grew up. Riley was couch surfing at Godwin’s while in…
by - August 10, 2016 2:54 pm
At age 64, Betsy McNeil is getting rid of her furniture, her clothes and her artwork, and she is downsizing. Really downsizing. In mid-August, McNeil will move into a 399-square-foot…
by - August 10, 2016 1:57 pm
Editor’s note: Each Wednesday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Health Beat,” a round-up health-related topics. ––––––––––––––– CMS WARNS STATE REGULATORS, NURSING HOME OPERATORS OF GROWING SOCIAL MEDIA ABUSE The U.S….
by - August 10, 2016 1:08 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday (Aug. 10) said he was not going to try to “get into Donald Trump’s mind” to try and figure out recent comments the Republican candidate…
by - August 10, 2016 12:38 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin and three members of the state’s congressional delegation all gathered together on Wednesday at a North Little Rock petroleum storage facility off the…
by - August 10, 2016 9:15 am
Peco Foods Inc. has hired more than 500 workers, and could employ more than 1,000 at its new poultry processing plant in Pocahontas. The 272,000-square-foot plant cost $165 million to…
by - August 10, 2016 9:09 am
A new study from the Alan Turing Institute and Warwick Analytics found that big data analytics is becoming increasingly accepted by the manufacturing industry and is seen as offering a…
by - August 10, 2016 9:05 am
A major manufacturing organization has targeted the growing isolationist rhetoric within the U.S. in the wake of the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union. National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)…
by - August 10, 2016 9:02 am
Arkansas-based Moon Distributing will be one of four in the country to carry a new line of whiskeys out of Texas and aimed at the millennial market. Caliber Company Spirits…
by - August 9, 2016 8:00 pm
The number of individuals who qualify for the state’s Arkansas Works program cannot be capped under federal law, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge wrote in an opinion released Monday. Rutledge was…
by - August 9, 2016 7:54 pm
Under public and government pressures to reduce the use antibiotics in meat production, Cargill said Tuesday (Aug. 9) it recently ended the use of gentamicin, an antibiotic used in humans…
by - August 9, 2016 7:54 pm
Under public and government pressures to reduce the use antibiotics in meat production, Cargill said Tuesday (Aug. 9) it recently ended the use of gentamicin, an antibiotic used in humans…
