by - December 30, 2021 12:17 pm
Deadly tornadoes ransacked parts of Northeast Arkansas in early December. The twisters carved a path of destruction that damaged and destroyed homes and killed at least two people in the…
by - December 29, 2021 9:54 am
Farmers, agribusiness professionals, students and educators across the Mid-South will have an opportunity to learn about new information in the agriculture sector along with policy education at Arkansas State University’s…
by - December 28, 2021 11:31 am
The Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus continues to spread across Arkansas and cases have spiked in Northeast Arkansas following the Christmas holiday. Craighead County reported 180 new cases on…
by - December 27, 2021 3:56 pm
Northeast Arkansas’ largest city and the Music City are about to make a special connection. Six weekly round-trip flights to Nashville International Airport will be added to Jonesboro’s Air Choice…
by - December 27, 2021 12:20 pm
As rice was removed from Arkansas fields it was churning out 169 bushels per acre in the fall of 2021 which would be a state record. But, once it’s milled…
by - December 26, 2021 10:25 am
An army of volunteers from the American Red Cross has been on the ground in Northeast Arkansas in the aftermath of the Dec. 10th deadly tornadoes that devastated the region….
by - December 18, 2021 11:56 am
Doris Washington was named the state executive director for the federal Farm Service Agency in Arkansas. The appointment was made by President Joe Biden. FSA state executive directors oversee Farm…
by - December 16, 2021 3:04 pm
State officials hope to have preliminary tornado damage estimates in Northeast Arkansas done by Friday (Dec. 17) for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Gov. Asa Hutchinson toured hard-hit Trumann on…
by - December 15, 2021 7:21 pm
Arkansas is one of the top soybean producing states and new research may have found a method for improving crop yields. A three-year study conducted by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment…
by - December 15, 2021 6:56 pm
The membership of Arkansas Economic Developers and Chamber Executives (AEDCE) has elected the following people to its board of directors with terms beginning Jan. 1, 2022. Graycen Bigger, Pocahontas Steven…
by - December 14, 2021 5:14 pm
For the better part of a decade, the city of Jonesboro and its home county, Craighead have consistently set yearly sales and use tax collections records. In 2021, the largest…
by - December 14, 2021 5:11 pm
The Agricultural Abandoned Pesticide Program collected 85,974 pounds of unwanted pesticides in 13 counties during 2021 collection events. Since 2005, the Agricultural Abandoned Pesticide Program has overseen the collection of…
by - December 13, 2021 6:02 pm
It is never more evident than during the Christmas season that Americans want what they want when they want it, often without any notion of how it gets there. Now,…
by - December 13, 2021 2:18 pm
Creating a healthy environment for chickens can be a daunting task, but certain conditions are proving more lucrative for poultry farmers. Researchers at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station continued decades…
by - December 12, 2021 12:44 pm
Steven Fenves was an avid stamp collector. The Jewish boy, living in Yugoslavia during the 1930s, spent hours on his collection of stamps. When his country was invaded at the…
by - December 12, 2021 12:36 pm
Jonesboro Cycle and ATV LLC made the most significant residential and commercial property transfer in Craighead County, from Oct. 15 through Nov. 15, according to the Craighead County Assessor’s Office….
by - December 10, 2021 5:41 pm
The Cobb/Lyerly/Owens Partnership in Lake City (Craighead Co.) is the 2021 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year. The honor was announced Thursday (Dec. 9) at a luncheon in North Little…
by - December 9, 2021 5:50 pm
The Williams Baptist University Board of Trustees recently recognized WBU student Baylee Haskins for her life-saving actions following a recent accident. Haskins, a WBU senior from Walnut Ridge, was with…
by - December 8, 2021 4:15 pm
Arkansas State University is one of eight Arkansas universities participating in a program designed to help transform K-12 teacher recruitment, training and retention, according to Forward Arkansas, a non-profit organization…
by - December 8, 2021 4:10 pm
Winter production meetings, a long-running staple of the Cooperative Extension Service, will again be in-person throughout the state in 2022. Production meetings provide an opportunity for agronomists, researchers and Cooperative…
