by - November 23, 2016 12:43 pm
A Northwest Arkansas cancer treatment provider has started using a high-precision machine to treat patients. On Oct. 31, Highlands Oncology Group started treating patients with a TrueBeam linear accelerator, manufactured…
by - November 23, 2016 10:44 am
Arkansas bank executives agreed with former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., about this: the bank regulation bill that bears his name should have been more lenient on smaller banks. In a…
by - November 23, 2016 10:20 am
Turkey farming is anything but easy. But that didn’t stop Jeff and Gloria Lindsey of Elkins from giving it a try. The couple signed on as turkey growers for Cargill…
by - November 23, 2016 9:47 am
Business groups across the U.S. cheered a decision by a U.S. District Court in Texas postponing the Obama administration’s new overtime rules that determine how much employees working more than…
by - November 22, 2016 7:03 pm
Truck tonnage declined 0.9% in October compared to the same month last year, but a trucking economist sees signs of a gradual increase in truck freight, according to a news…
by - November 22, 2016 5:00 pm
Tyson Foods is preparing for a management shift and its only the second time in the companys long history where the incoming CEO is not a veteran employee of the Springdale-based meat giant.
by - November 22, 2016 4:46 pm
Biomedical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have found a cause of fluid swelling in the brain, or cellular edema, happening during a concussion, and a treatment for it,…
by - November 22, 2016 4:13 pm
A second Democratic lawmaker has switched to the Republican Party since the Nov. 8 election, giving the GOP a 75% supermajority in the House of Representatives. Rep. David Hillman, R-Almyra,…
by - November 22, 2016 4:09 pm
House Education Committee members voted Tuesday to approve an adequacy report, already approved by their Senate counterparts, more than three weeks after its deadline. The adequacy report, which is required…
by - November 22, 2016 2:41 pm
The Women and Infants Center at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville opened Nov. 14. The $60 million project added a five-story, 132,800-square-foot patient tower to the existing hospital campus,…
by - November 22, 2016 2:38 pm
The number of distressed home sales in Northwest Arkansas — including bank-owned (REO) sales, sales of homes actively in foreclosure and short sales — continues to drop. According to a…
by - November 22, 2016 2:36 pm
Tyson Foods is preparing for a management shift and it’s only the second time in the company’s long history where the incoming CEO is not a veteran employee of the…
by - November 22, 2016 2:31 pm
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith and Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas in Rogers are two of the five hospital in Arkansas to receive the top “A” rating from the national nonprofit Leapfrog…
by - November 22, 2016 2:10 pm
Mark Gaston Pearce, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, spoke recently in Fayetteville about how the federal agency has adapted to change in its 81-year history of enforcing the…
by - November 22, 2016 1:48 pm
Members of Arkansas’ Congressional delegation may reintroduce some version of legislation introduced earlier this year to halt one of the nation’s largest renewable energy infrastructure projects that will cross the…
by - November 22, 2016 10:48 am
Northwest Arkansas businesses collected 1.86% more in sales tax during September which returned $5.508 million to the region’s four largest cities in November, according to the Arkansas Department of Finance…
by - November 22, 2016 10:39 am
The end may soon arrive for a rare “inventory overhang” that has been an earnings drag on J.B. Hunt, ArcBest (ABF Freight), USA Truck and other national and regional trucking…
by - November 22, 2016 10:34 am
Optimistic attitudes among consumers buying on credit helped to fuel more large household purchases for Arkansas residents in the past six months, according to the final report from the Fall…
by - November 22, 2016 9:02 am
Editor’s note: Ken Smith is the policy director for Arkansas Advanced Energy Association. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted in this space are wholly the view of the author(s). They…
by - November 22, 2016 9:00 am
Arkansas Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway) has been named chief executive officer for a Conway-based startup that makes door lockdown devices for schools, homes and churches. Rapert takes the lead at…
