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Mattress Firm Store Coming to Rogers

Store expected to open early next year.

Georgia Group Buys Land With Eye on Student Housing

There are no immediate plans for the property on South Futrall Drive.

Fleming Joins Jingit Board

Former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. exec served as chief merchandising officer.

Qedan Out on Parole

Convicted embezzler was released July 19.

KNWA Moving to The Dickson This Fall

Station will occupy the third floor.

Assistant to Rogers Mayor Loses Job

Lynn Keith resigned after being involved in a confrontation at the LPGA Tour event in Rogers.

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The assignment of $1.54 billion in special highway project funding contained within a road tax plan on the Nov. 6 election ballot includes $648 million for the central Arkansas area,…

Campaign tax plans are half-baked

U.S. presidential elections often produce half-baked proposals. The campaign websites of President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are loaded with 10-point plans to reform everything from education and…

LM Windpower to cut 234 jobs in Little Rock

Citing uncertainty over a tax credit provision and a slowdown in production, Danish wind turbine maker LM Windpower said it would lay off more than two-thirds of its Little Rock…

Boeing, SpaceX win $900 million in awards for spacecraft

Boeing Co. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. won $900 million in contracts from NASA to develop spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts, the agency said. Boeing received a $460 million award,…

Arkansas road plan pushed at chamber breakfast

Arkansas Highway Commissioner Dick Trammel and Arkansas Highway Department District 4 Engineer Joe Shipman addressed attendees at the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce First Friday Breakfast Aug. 3 in…

Chick-fil-A day: Boycotts often backfire

Throughout our history, Americans have periodically been forced to reckon with the moral and political impact of the goods and services they buy. Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was one such moment….

Newspapers Merge Photo Operations, Cut 5 Jobs

Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC will keep a staff of eight in its consolidated photography department.

Northwest Arkansas Newspapers announce job cuts

Five photographers will be laid off from the Northwest Arkansas Newspapers (NAN), with other cuts likely. Almost three years ago, Stephens Media and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Inc. merged operations in…

Gov. Mary Fallin issues statewide burn ban

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has announced that a ban on outdoor burning for all 77 Oklahoma counties is effective immediately. Oklahoma Forestry Services, a division of the Oklahoma Department of…

U.S. jobless rates rises to 8.3% in July

Payrolls in the U.S. climbed more than forecast in July, boosted by a pickup in employment at automakers, even as the jobless rate unexpectedly rose to a five-month high. The…

Fayetteville Underground hosts soft opening of new space

FAYETTEVILLE — The Fayetteville Underground is now at street level. Roughly eight months after members of the artist collective lost their lease on space they occupied on the basement level of…

BHP cuts Fayetteville Shale value by $2.84 billion

BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company, will book one-time charges totaling $3.3 billion on the value of its U.S. shale gas assets and nickel operations in Australia because…

GM second-quarter profit falls 38%

General Motors Co., struggling to turn around its money-losing Opel unit, said second-quarter profit slid 38 percent as losses widened in Europe where the auto market is heading toward its…

Some who receive government health care also oppose it

In the coming months, state lawmakers and key constitutional officers will be making critical decisions on Arkansans’ options for health insurance through Medicaid, an insurance exchange, or the pure free…

Opinions differ on use of former ACME Brick property

Jones Center raises $310,000 at ‘Big Night’

Colliers | Arkansas to manage Regions Center; firm closes 2 major deals for $10.7M

Architect Reese Rowland honored with AIA Arkansas E. Fay Jones gold medal