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January 2015 Eagle Watch Tours

Hobbs State Park – Conservation Area offers eagle watch tours on Beaver Lake November 2014 through February 2015. January tours will take place on January 1, 2, 3, 4, 10,…

Hutchinson Names Brig. Gen. Mark Berry As New Adjutant General

Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson has appointed Brigadier General Mark H. Berry as the 52nd Adjutant General of Arkansas, which commands the Arkansas National Guard. Major General William D. Wofford currently serves…

Kerr To Serve As Insurance Commissioner, Sharp To Stay At Community Correction

Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson said that State Rep. Allen Kerr, R-Little Rock, will serve as Insurance Commissioner in his administration replacing current commissioner Jay Bradford. Hutchinson also announced that Sheila Sharp…

Health Beat: Arkansas 8th In Funding Tobacco Prevention Programs For Kids

Editor’s note: Each Wednesday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Health Beat,” a round-up of health-related topics in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free…

Finalists named for Arkansas Parks and Tourism Henry Awards program

The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism provided on Tuesday (Dec. 16) its list of Henry Award finalists, with Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith area connected to several of…

Osteopathic Colleges In Fort Smith, Jonesboro At Center Of Spar

Fort Smith and Jonesboro are both vying for colleges of osteopathy to meet a growing demand for physicians in two very different regions of the state. According to who you…

Private label items give Walmart pricing edge in new study

Walmart’s private label grocery and consumable products continues to offer substantial savings for consumers watching every dime they spend, according to a recent pricing survey completed by Raymond James &…

PSC Chair Colette Honorable Confirmed By U.S. Senate To FERC Panel

Arkansas Public Service Commission chairwoman Colette Honorable cleared her final hurdle to become a member of the powerful five-person Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Honorable, who received bipartisan praise throughout…

XNA pushes through traffic record, enplanements up at Fort Smith

Enplanement traffic at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) likely broke a new annual enplanement record on Dec. 5, and could end the year with around 640,000 enplanements. Traffic also…

Legislators Consider Insurance Subsidy For New Teachers

Arkansas lawmakers are considering an idea to encourage healthier, younger teachers into a troubled insurance system that is showing signs of improvement.

Springdale Chamber of Commerce selects 2015 board directors

A slate of five chamber of commerce members has been selected to serve on the Springdale Chamber Board of Directors beginning Jan. 1. The five members in good standing who…

NWACC to offer spring science fiction course

NorthWest Arkansas Community College will soon have another special topics course to add to its repertoire. The course, titled “Science Fiction as Literature,” will be instructed by Timothy McGinn and…

Wachter Inc. invests $2 million in Lowell expansion

Wachter Inc., a provider of electrical, data, communications, automation and other building systems to Wal-Mart Stores and other business, announced the expansion of its facility in Lowell. The company plans…

UAMS Northwest North Street Clinic offers diabetes treatment for Marshallese

The new North Street Clinic on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus in Fayetteville said it will offer chronic disease management for type 2 diabetes. The clinic is…

Wal-Mart Hit With $188 Million Judgment For ‘Off The Clock’ Work

Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest private employer, was hit with a $188 million order this week by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court over failure to allow workers their full meal and…

Arvest survey: Arkansans ‘cautious’ about adding new debt

Consumers in Arkansas report having less existing mortgage debt and higher overall savings rates than their neighbors in Missouri and Oklahoma, according to the third phase of the Arvest Bank’s…

Wal-Mart hit with $188 million judgment for ‘off the clock’ work

Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest private employer, was hit with a $188 million order this week by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court over failure to allow workers their full meal and…

Wachter, Inc. Expands In Lowell

Wachter Inc., a national provider of electrical, data, communications, automation and other building systems, will expand its facility in Lowell, Arkansas. The company said it will invest $2 million in…

Arvest Survey: Arkansans Cautious On Spending, Debt And Economy

Most Arkansans and fellow consumers in neighboring states have held off making major household purchases over the last half of 2014 and have no plans to splurge on big ticket…

New York Investment Group Stakes $44 Million Claim in Fayetteville

Spring Creek Centre, Steele Crossing sold to a New York investment group for a combined $43.9 million.

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson

Dope Medicinal Wellness opens Fayetteville clinic

Fort Smith metro job numbers up less than 1% in September report