by - May 16, 2016 9:59 pm
Gretchen Hall, CEO of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, likes the numbers she sees. Last year, Pulaski County accounted for 13,000 travel-related jobs and 6.1 million visitors who…
by - May 16, 2016 12:01 pm
Anita Davis never set out to rehabilitate part of downtown Little Rock. She wasn’t a historic preservation activist or one of those people who write letters to the local newspaper….
by - May 10, 2016 7:14 pm
Van Buren Original (VBO) held its kickoff meeting in the second floor of the King Opera House downtown on Tuesday (May 10), identifying two key opportunities to revitalize the city’s…
by - May 10, 2016 5:17 pm
The Fort Smith Central Business Improvement District (CBID) has thrown its support behind the Propel Downtown Forward initiative undertaken by 64/6 Downtown, voting unanimously on Tuesday (May 10) to contribute…
by - May 10, 2016 3:58 pm
The Arkansas State University Heritage Sites program have registered to become Blue Star Museums throughout the summer months, university officials said Tuesday (May 10). Participating programs will offer free admission…
by - May 10, 2016 1:20 pm
Main Street Siloam Springs has created a bank loan consortium that will provide $2.5 million in seed money for small businesses seeking to renovate or open a business in the…
by - May 9, 2016 5:21 pm
Kym Hughes, the executive director of Fayetteville’s Advertising and Promotion Commission, announced Monday (May 9) she will step down from the job on July 1. Hughes cited family concerns as…
by - May 9, 2016 4:03 pm
Downtown Mena’s ongoing revitalization efforts can add a mix of antique stores and flea markets to the offerings. The area is home to five antique stores concentrated within walking distance…
by - May 7, 2016 1:15 pm
U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark, and U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, were in Fort Smith Saturday (May 7) to present the United States Marshals Museum with a $3.053 million check…
by - May 6, 2016 12:14 pm
Van Buren Original (VBO) will hold its kickoff meeting on Tuesday (May 10) at 3:30 p.m. from the second floor of the King Opera House in downtown Van Buren. The…
by - May 4, 2016 5:05 pm
Bentonville is home to one of the world’s largest companies but this week the city and chamber of commerce saluted its small businesses as part of National Small Business Week….
by - May 4, 2016 3:55 pm
Visitors will have an opportunity to celebrate the grand opening of the Dyess Colony Visitors Center as well as phase two of a restoration project at the site of the…
by - May 2, 2016 5:09 pm
Officials with Keller announced Monday (May 2) that Hyatt hotels has officially approved the Hyatt Place Hotel and Convention Center project for Jonesboro. The 147-room Hyatt Place Hotel will be…
by - May 2, 2016 11:41 am
Act two of the Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) begins Tuesday (May 3) and organizers say the impact on Bentonville’s economy will be far greater than last year’s inaugural event. Trevor…
by - May 1, 2016 2:01 pm
The weather was rotten on Friday for the second annual Steel Horse Rally, but that didn’t stop an estimated 25,000 bikers from roaring into downtown Fort Smith on Saturday, possibly…
by - April 30, 2016 1:25 pm
William Darby wrote in a school essay he would be “something great” or a “professional bum.” It was the former, and several hundred people gathered Saturday morning in downtown Fort…
by - April 29, 2016 12:34 pm
A donation of a $1.5 million lead gift toward the construction of a new Northwest Arkansas Community College facility in Washington County and a culinary center for the study of…
by - April 28, 2016 6:56 pm
Editor’s note: The Arkansas Tourism Ticker is sponsored by the Arkansas Hospitality Association. –––––––––––– Arkansas’ tourism industry ended the first two months of 2016 with a more than 4% growth…
by - April 26, 2016 1:00 am
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced Pablo Picasso’s “Seated Woman in Chemise” (1923), is part of a new art display on loan from the Tate Modern in London that…
by - April 25, 2016 4:38 pm
Alphonso Trent, Fort Smith native and a well-known jazz musician, will be the subject of a new locally-produced documentary set to debut at the Fort Smith Museum of History on…
