by - August 27, 2015 6:01 pm
A plan to implement a panic alert system in the state’s schools has ramped up in recent weeks, just in time for students heading back to school. Meanwhile, the system…
by - August 27, 2015 5:53 pm
Chris Hickey with our content partner, KUAR FM 89.1, reports: Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner is to face a federal sentencing hearing Friday morning in Little Rock. Shoffner was convicted…
by - August 27, 2015 3:28 pm
GOP Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson touted his biography and called for a more self-sufficient, less dependent America, which he said is an “exceptional country” that, 200 years after its…
by - August 27, 2015 3:16 pm
A “future” school that could teach Fort Smith students how to build “Back To The Future” style hoverboards is in the works. That’s according to the recent edition of The…
by - August 27, 2015 2:03 pm
Holiday toy sale competitions among retailers don’t usually begin until early October, but Wal-Mart has announced a preemptive strike as it kicks off the 2015 Christmas shopping season. On Wednesday,…
by - August 27, 2015 1:04 pm
Just a heads up, but there will be a bank robbery on the Bentonville Square on Sept. 4. And some local officials may be accomplices. But it will all be…
by - August 27, 2015 12:04 pm
In the “second revision” of the nation’s real gross domestic product, or GDP, the federal report shows the U.S. economy advanced at a robust annual rate of 3.7% in the…
by - August 27, 2015 11:51 am
When Dr. Becky Paneitz walked away in 2013 from her 10 years as president of NorthWest Arkansas Community College, she had no long-term plans for what she would tackle next….
by - August 27, 2015 11:39 am
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale has ended its business relationship with T&S Farm after an undercover video showed workers there abusing chickens.
by - August 27, 2015 10:04 am
In the “second revision” of the nation’s real gross domestic product, or GDP, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data shows that the U.S. economy advanced at a robust annual…
by - August 27, 2015 9:46 am
by - August 27, 2015 6:22 am
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by - August 26, 2015 7:51 pm
Arkansas’ private option has reduced the state’s uninsured ranks, reduced uncompensated care, and strengthened the overall insurance marketplace serving other insurance recipients, a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation…
by - August 26, 2015 7:22 pm
Barefoot children frolicked among picnic blankets and lawn chairs at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks (BGO) Tuesday (Aug. 25) as more than 400 people gathered on an usually cool…
by - August 26, 2015 6:46 pm
Big River Steel has pre-sold nearly a quarter of the steel it is expected to produce over the next seven years, the company’s CEO told a legislative committee Wednesday.
by - August 26, 2015 6:41 pm
Construction crews across Benton and Washington counties report a busy and productive July with combined residential and commercial permit values exceeding $101.278 million among the region’s four largest cities. This…
by - August 26, 2015 6:35 pm
Arkansas’ private option has reduced the state’s uninsured ranks, reduced uncompensated care, and strengthened the overall insurance marketplace serving other insurance recipients, a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation…
by - August 26, 2015 6:25 pm
As Oshkosh Defense cheered the Pentagon’s announcement on Tuesday that it was the winner of the highly-sought after $30 billion Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract, Lockheed Martin officials were left…
by - August 26, 2015 6:10 pm
Depending on who you talk to, new Sebastian County property assessments are either “way out of whack” or are good reflections of property value changes in the past five years…
by - August 26, 2015 4:21 pm
An Arkansas law moving up the deadline for independent candidates to present their petition signatures is constitutional because the state has a compelling interest in the earlier date, a district…
