by - April 9, 2018 10:32 am
The nonprofit group Downtown Bentonville Inc. (DBI) announced Monday (April 9) the hiring of Andrew Heath as executive director. He is replacing Monica Kumar, who held the job from 2015…
by - April 8, 2018 5:54 pm
Tyson Foods is a household name for branded retail products like frozen chicken tenders and Jimmy Dean sausage, in all commanding 42 miles of retail freezer aisle space in the…
by - April 8, 2018 5:34 pm
Blockchain is seen as another disruptive technology – along with machine learning, internet of things and virtual reality – that has the potential to impact nearly all business sectors. There…
by - April 6, 2018 11:29 am
Springfield, Mo.-based Aerobotics LLC will host an entry-level class for those interested in flying drones from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 21 at Northwest Technical Institute in Springdale. Rick…
by - April 6, 2018 8:52 am
Nearly 75 people attended a meeting to provide feedback on street projects that would be paid for with a bond issue that Springdale voters approved with 84% of the vote….
by - April 5, 2018 8:21 pm
Ozark Regional Transit (ORT) will receive a $3.6 million federal grant to replace the majority, if not all, of the remaining buses that have yet to be replaced after a…
by - April 5, 2018 4:20 pm
David Cheesewright, former chief executive officer for Walmart International, ended his full-time employment with Walmart on March 31 and transitioned to a part-time consultant role for Walmart Canada for the…
by - April 5, 2018 11:16 am
Walton Family Foundation Home Region program director Karen Minkel says the best opportunity to strengthen Northwest Arkansas’ already growing bicycle and trail system economy lies in the further development of…
by - April 5, 2018 9:29 am
The number of net metering facilities in Northwest Arkansas increased dramatically in 2017. According to annual filings with the Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC), there were 517 net metering facilities…
by - April 4, 2018 7:31 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) officials want to take a new approach to the airport access road that has been studied for more than 12 years to improve access to…
by - April 4, 2018 7:20 pm
Northwest Arkansas cities and two transit providers will soon have access to a cloud-based software that has over the past year provided route planning information to Springdale-based transit provider Ozark…
by - April 4, 2018 2:49 pm
Carl Yates, the former president and majority owner of Northwest Arkansas’ oldest engineer firm, died Sunday (April 1). He was 88. Yates worked for Fayetteville engineering firm McGoodwin Williams &…
by - April 4, 2018 12:16 pm
Cecil Turner remembers Bentonville before urbanization. “I could drive on Walton Boulevard any time of day, even in what you would call rush hour, and never be behind more than…
by - April 4, 2018 11:57 am
A 59,748-square-foot retail building in Rogers recently sold for $8.41 million. The purchase price equals $140.84 per square foot. Vereit Real Estate LP of Phoenix, managed by real estate investment…
by - April 4, 2018 10:49 am
Residential permit values from January and February totaled a combined $67.51 million for Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale, a drop of 17% compared to $81.43 million from the same period…
by - April 3, 2018 6:27 pm
Mercy’s $247 million ongoing expansion in Northwest Arkansas includes a 63,000-square-foot clinic and emergency and outpatient surgery center under construction in northwest Springdale. Kerry Harper, executive director of support services…
by - April 3, 2018 10:07 am
Experience Fayetteville, the city’s tourism bureau, has joined the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), an organization that provides a network of free tourism resources and information for the…
by - April 2, 2018 9:06 pm
Oliver Chen, an analyst with Cowen & Co., places the odds of an acquisition of Humana by Walmart as high as 40%. He said odds are as high as 80%…
by - April 2, 2018 4:51 pm
Transit supporters from the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina and Indianapolis will soon be in Northwest Arkansas to explain why businesses leaders there have looked to improve mobility. Joe Milazzo,…
by - April 2, 2018 3:47 pm
A vacant hotel near Interstate 49 in Fayetteville has been torn down to make way for a new mixed-use development called Shiloh Crossings. The 197-room hotel at 1255 S. Shiloh…
