by - October 30, 2015 12:18 am
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by - October 29, 2015 9:56 pm
The Parrot Island Waterpark brought good news for the Fort Smith Board of Directors and Sebastian County Quorum Court at Thursday’s (Oct. 29) special study session. Rick Coleman of American…
by - October 29, 2015 9:48 pm
While the number of employed slipped a little from August, the September jobs picture in Northwest Arkansas remained on a positive track with the number of employed up 3.42% year-over-year….
by - October 29, 2015 9:44 pm
Although the Fort Smith region still has fewer people employed than prior to the Great Recession, the jobs picture is improving, with the number of unemployed declining in September and…
by - October 29, 2015 5:02 pm
The international market for Arkansas rice producers is teeming with possibilities, an industry official told the Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board Thursday. Chuck Wilson, director of Arkansas Field Services…
by - October 29, 2015 1:45 pm
Four hospital providers, including Baptist Health and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield are creating a shared services organization to reduce duplication,…
by - October 29, 2015 1:08 pm
With more than 140 million customers shopping Walmart stores each week and 4,500 pickup locations disguised as supercenters and other stores, the retail giant is going against the retail grain…
by - October 29, 2015 12:59 pm
All four members of Arkansas’ delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives said Thursday they are pleased with Paul Ryan’s election to the powerful post of U.S. House Speaker. Ryan,…
by - October 29, 2015 12:18 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) has rethought two of his seven proposed changes to the Medicaid private option, proposed renaming it “Arkansas Works,” and supports a managed care system for high-cost…
by - October 29, 2015 12:01 pm
The Partnership for a Healthy Arkansas will bring together five organizations to implement programs that improve health care quality and lower health care costs for patients and providers throughout Arkansas.
by - October 29, 2015 10:03 am
The jobs picture improved in September for the central Arkansas and Jonesboro metro areas, with the Little Rock region seeing an almost 4% year-over-year gain in the number of employed…
by - October 29, 2015 9:00 am
Bloomberg News is reporting that telecom giant Verizon Communications has informed employees that its wireless operations will be reorganized and that there will be an unspecified number of job cuts.
by - October 29, 2015 8:20 am
The nation’s choppy economy continued to grow in the third quarter, but expanded less than half the real gross domestic product in the previous quarter, according to the “advance” estimate…
by - October 29, 2015 7:08 am
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by - October 29, 2015 4:26 am
Jose Escobar, a student at the University of Arkansas, participated in a hackathon on his campus and became interested in learning more about the increasingly popular events that combine education,…
by - October 28, 2015 9:52 pm
Chicken-wing eating preachers, drone flying, and daily bathroom breaks are part of the report this week from Dawson Meadows. He also talks about “fresh packets” being dropped on members of…
by - October 28, 2015 6:19 pm
Arkansas is spending too many health care dollars to keep long-term individuals in nursing homes and not enough for less expensive home- and community-based options, a health care consultant told legislators.
by - October 28, 2015 6:09 pm
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a two-year budget blueprint for the nation, but Arkansas’ Congressional delegation was divided in its votes.
by - October 28, 2015 4:46 pm
Murphy Oil Corp. on Wednesday posted a huge loss of nearly $1.6 billion in the third quarter as depressed oil and gas prices cast a broad shadow across the Arkansas…
by - October 28, 2015 3:46 pm
Ralph Garcia, a driver for Fort Smith-based ABF Freight System, has received the Mike Russell Trucking Image award from the American Trucking Associations’, one of the top honors in the…
