by - June 22, 2015 10:15 pm
A report Monday that the United States and Iran are sharing a military base in Iraq drew a sharp rebuke from Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. According to a Bloomberg View…
by - June 22, 2015 10:06 pm
Sixteen teenagers assembled in a small conference overlooking the Fayetteville Square on Monday (June 22) to begin a week long study of entrepreneurship and starting their own business. The teenagers…
by - June 22, 2015 9:59 pm
Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores says a report generated by union groups regarding the retailer’s use of tax havens to shield U.S. taxes is “flawed.”
by - June 22, 2015 9:47 pm
Jacob Kauffman with our content partner, KUAR FM 89.1 News, reports: Governor Asa Hutchinson briefly chimed in on the subject of Confederate iconography in the hours preceding the governor of…
by - June 22, 2015 6:53 pm
Bear State Financial Inc. announced Monday that it has agreed to purchase a Missouri bank in an all-stock deal that will add $442 million in assets to the fast-growing Little…
by - June 22, 2015 6:49 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has directed the Department of Education to withdraw Arkansas from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) consortium, despite a vote June 11…
by - June 22, 2015 6:35 pm
Sixteen teenagers assembled in a small conference overlooking the Fayetteville Square on Monday (June 22) to begin a week long study of entrepreneurship and starting their own business. The teenagers…
by - June 22, 2015 5:31 pm
Bear State Financial Inc. announced Monday that it has agreed to purchase a Missouri bank in an all-stock deal that will add $442 million in assets to the fast-growing Little…
by - June 22, 2015 5:22 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has directed the Department of Education to withdraw Arkansas from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) consortium, despite a vote June 11 by the State Board of Education to keep Arkansas in the consortium.
by - June 22, 2015 4:51 pm
A bonus purchase of dark meat chicken recently announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to lift the share prices of Tyson Foods Inc., and its poultry competitor…
by - June 22, 2015 4:24 pm
The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal is launching a new awards program to honor outstanding executives in the C-suite.
by - June 22, 2015 3:13 pm
This week Wal-Mart Stores confirmed it began sending out amended agreements with approximately 10,000 of its suppliers in hopes of better controlling costs. Cutting costs is a major agenda for…
by - June 22, 2015 3:05 pm
For the fourth straight season and the eighth time in the last nine years, the Arkansas baseball team finished in the top two in national average attendance, as 8,290 fans…
by - June 22, 2015 2:46 pm
Williams Companies, the Tulsa, Okla.-based natural gas pipeline and terminal operator with operations in Arkansas, turned down an unsolicited buyout offer valued at 64 cents per share or $48 billion,…
by - June 22, 2015 2:24 pm
Our state has a problem. We don’t handle contract procurements very well. Recently, the Department of Human Services (DHS) has received deserved attention for mismanaging multiple eligibility contracts. It’s a…
by - June 22, 2015 2:18 pm
School board elections have for decades been held on the third Tuesday of September but for almost as long some Arkansans have complained that the annual elections need to move…
by - June 22, 2015 2:16 pm
Following a meeting last week with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson at the Paris Air Show, Aerojet Rocketdyne, a world leader in the development and manufacturing of aerospace and defense products,…
by - June 22, 2015 1:53 pm
• Cargill teams up Pwc on sustainability efforts Cargill is linking up with PricewaterhouseCoopers to improve their supply chains and align them with sustainability goals. As a supplier to Wal-Mart…
by - June 22, 2015 1:09 pm
Donald Trump is coming to Arkansas. The billionaire real estate mogul, reality television star, and, as of last Tuesday, presidential candidate will speak at the Republican Party of Arkansas’ Reagan-Rockefeller…
by - June 22, 2015 12:16 pm
Steve Schotta is stepping down as executive director of the Northwest Arkansas Children’s Shelter and Greg Russell is stepping up from marketing director to fill the position effective July 1….
