by - June 1, 2025 11:16 am
Walmart has announced a new platform for insurers and benefit managers that the company says can encourage healthy eating by using the data it collects on customers. The tool, “Everyday…
by - June 1, 2025 11:06 am
The Education and Health Services sector continues to drive job growth in the Fort Smith metro, accounting for roughly 60% of the region’s year-over-year job gains in April, according to…
by - June 1, 2025 10:00 am
The 32nd annual Distinguished Performance Awards at Arkansas State University were presented to six staff members and one staff group for excellence in a department or team. The annual campus…
by - May 30, 2025 3:59 pm
Editor’s note: This is the second of two stories about the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Link here for the first story. Link here for the first story. When the…
by - May 30, 2025 1:02 pm
Rogers-based America’s Car-Mart Inc. has completed its seventh asset-backed securities (ABS) transaction that includes issuing $216 million in asset-backed notes with an average coupon of 6.27%, according to a Friday…
by - May 30, 2025 12:59 pm
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., Fort Worth, Texas-based BNSF Railway and Mexico rail provider Grupo México Transportes (GMXT) have launched a new intermodal service in Mexico, modeled after…
by - May 30, 2025 7:48 am
OG&E Community Affairs Manager Eddie Lee Herndon will receive the 2025 Jack White Community Leadership Award. Herndon is the first OG&E employee to receive the award since it was renamed…
by - May 30, 2025 7:45 am
Will Reaves has been added as the new director of two Arkansas State University Heritage Sites. He will take the helm of Historic Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home and…
by - May 29, 2025 7:36 pm
More than 200 people gathered Thursday (May 29) for the opening of a $31 million food hub in downtown Springdale that will support a Walton Family Foundation initiative to strengthen…
by - May 29, 2025 7:04 pm
Lexicon, Inc. has expanded its marketing department with the hiring of Blake Curry as multimedia producer and Camryn Jacobs as content creator. “As Lexicon continues to grow, investing in a…
by - May 29, 2025 6:44 pm
U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, co-led a letter to the leadership of the House Appropriations Committee requesting an H-2A visa guestworker wage freeze in upcoming appropriations legislation. He was joined…
by - May 29, 2025 6:34 pm
Western Global Airlines has opened a new base maintenance facility at the Arkansas International Airport in Blytheville. The new facility includes a 50,000-square-foot hangar, the largest at the Aeroplex, and…
by - May 29, 2025 3:44 pm
Where does the buck stop? That’s the question for courts to determine between present and past Tyson Foods execs and the survivors of former employees who died from their exposure…
by - May 29, 2025 3:00 pm
Commercial traffic out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport continues to move in the wrong direction, with April enplanements down more than 11% compared with April 2024. April enplanements totaled…
by - May 29, 2025 1:57 pm
Editor’s note: This is the first of two stories about the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. For the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum (FSRAM), 2025 is proving to be one…
by - May 29, 2025 10:59 am
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Bentonville Film Festival will host a conversation with longtime weatherman Al Roker on June 17 in Bentonville. An Afternoon with Al Roker…
by - May 29, 2025 10:46 am
Rogers-based Onyx Coffee Lab and Fayetteville-based 7 Brew have announced new management hires. Coleman Jernigan is director of retail operations at Onyx, and Stephanie Quillen is the chief people officer…
by - May 29, 2025 10:35 am
Mac Pinkerton has been hired to be chief operating officer of the logistics subsidiary at Fort Smith-based ArcBest. The transportation industry veteran is set to begin in the new role…
by - May 28, 2025 5:51 pm
Developer Sam Seeger is again hoping to develop the former Fianna Hills Country Club into a “retirement housing” facility and also seeks to build on adjacent property a residential subdivision…
by - May 28, 2025 3:10 pm
Fayetteville-based software development company Ozark Apps has experienced rapid growth since launching in 2022. Over the past year, the company’s revenue has nearly tripled. The company builds mobile apps, artificial…
