by - May 3, 2018 5:00 pm
Nearly 100 people, including business, state and university officials, celebrated the completion of a $3.2 million project to expand an electricity research center at the University of Arkansas. On Thursday…
by - May 2, 2018 5:39 pm
Competition will be stiff again this year as Walmart supplier companies and other organizations take a day off work on May 4 to take part in the fourth annual Corporate…
by - May 2, 2018 3:01 pm
Helen and Sam Walton worked to improve the lives of others and that spirit of giving continues today through their grandchildren and nieces and nephews, Kyle Peterson, executive director of…
by - May 2, 2018 9:45 am
Award-winning chefs will set up kitchens in the grocery areas of 225 select Walmart Supercenters through November to give cooking demonstrations, share food samples and offer recipes and meal preparation…
by - May 1, 2018 9:12 am
The value of residential building permit values in the region’s four largest cities rose dramatically in the first quarter of 2018. According to data collected from each city, permit values…
by - April 30, 2018 2:44 pm
P.A.M. Transportation Services earnings declined 39.2% in the first quarter of 2018 as winter weather decreased equipment use and negatively impacted fuel and maintenance expenses, insurance claims and revenue. However,…
by - April 30, 2018 12:03 pm
Walmart announced early Monday (April 30) it is retreating from the United Kingdom in a $10 billion deal that garners it a 42% stake in Sainsbury’s in exchange for its…
by - April 29, 2018 2:38 pm
Community leaders and educators helped raise money for scholarships at the NorthWest Arkansas Community College Foundation’s Plant a Seed Fundraiser held at Brightwater in Bentonville on Friday (April 27). Dr….
by - April 27, 2018 12:16 pm
Margaret Sova McCabe, professor at the University of New Hampshire School Of Law, has been named dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law. Her hiring is effective July…
by - April 27, 2018 10:49 am
Lisa Ray moved from California to Northwest Arkansas in 1988, and met and married her husband that same year. The newlyweds did something else that year. “We put together a…
by - April 27, 2018 9:13 am
Springdale-based healthcare organization Northwest Health is planning to build a standalone emergency room on South Shiloh Drive in Fayetteville — the first redevelopment on the former site of the Clarion…
by - April 26, 2018 9:41 pm
The Arkansas Department of Transportation has scrapped two proposed designs for the Interstate 49 interchange at U.S. Highway 62, or Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, in Fayetteville after receiving comments…
by - April 26, 2018 4:24 pm
German discount grocery chain Aldi Inc. has purchased land in Bentonville to open a new store. The company paid $901,658 for two lots totaling 2.72 acres near the northwest corner…
by - April 26, 2018 8:46 am
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the April 16 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - April 25, 2018 1:22 pm
Architects were announced Wednesday (April 25) for expansion of the University of Arkansas School of Art into a designated arts district in south Fayetteville, part of a $40 million gift…
by - April 25, 2018 8:03 am
Northwest Arkansas’ arts and culture scene is vibrant, and those in the music industry are beginning to take note. One of them is Al Bell, the chairman and CEO of…
by - April 24, 2018 9:33 pm
Mercy Hospitals in Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas each received a safety grade of “A” from the Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital watchdog group. Mercy also recently ranked as one…
by - April 24, 2018 3:31 pm
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services honored 77 drivers with 2 million, 3 million and 4 million safe miles, and awarded nearly $1 million in bonuses for reaching the number…
by - April 24, 2018 2:12 pm
Signature Bank of Arkansas is expanding to Rogers, a move that will once again give the $600 million-asset bank a branch in each of the region’s four largest cities. The…
by - April 24, 2018 12:12 pm
Combined sales tax revenue among Northwest Arkansas’ four largest cities improved in the April report after falling flat the prior month. Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale cumulatively reported sales tax…
