by - June 20, 2013 8:31 am
UA Offering Online Certificate Program in Business Analytics
The program will help fill a key need for many businesses and industries finding employees with big data analytic skills.
Regions
by - June 19, 2013 6:33 pm
Growth for suppliers linked to e-commerce
Wal-Mart is keenly focused on leveraging its assets to boost the bottomline profits in an era when sluggish growth and hyper competition have curtailed top line revenue growth. But suppliers…
by - June 19, 2013 5:47 pm
Sebastian County OKs new grievance policy
The personnel manual for county employees has been updated following a vote authorizing the new manual at last night's Sebastian County Quorum Court meeting. County Judge David Hudson said the…
by - June 19, 2013 4:36 pm
Brockovich: I have not abandoned Fort Smith
That didn't take long. Less than 24 hours after The City Wire published an article questioning why colleagues of environmental activist Erin Brockovich had not returned phone calls from the…
by - June 19, 2013 4:36 pm
Food retail is a marketshare game
Since the great recession five years ago, food retailers and consumer packaged goods suppliers have largely relied on inflation to drive top line revenue growth, but Tuesday’s (June 18) CPI…
by - June 19, 2013 3:30 pm
Riverfront Blues Fest
Saturday night kickoffs the second night of Blues Fest, with a JP Soars performance and the legendary Johnny Winter headlining. Harry E. Kelley Park gates open at 4:00 PM. Tickets…
by - June 19, 2013 3:16 pm
Riverfront Blues Fest
Friday night the Blues Fest will kickoff with our featured artists: Leah & The Mojo Doctors at 6:00 PM, following Jeff Strahan, Eric Sardinas, and Mark Albertson & Wanda Watson. Harry…
by - June 19, 2013 11:09 am
TRI for Kids 2013
by - June 18, 2013 11:16 pm
Jones Center combines food drive and skating in June
During the month of June, the Jones Center will be collecting nonperishable food items for the NWA Food Bank and offering an ice skating special to those who donate. For…
by - June 18, 2013 9:11 pm
Fort Smith Board approves $3 million landfill upgrade
Amenities at the Fort Smith Department of Sanitation are about to get a drastic upgrade thanks to the passage of a resolution at Tuesday's (June 18) Board of Directors meeting…
by - June 18, 2013 6:17 pm
Grain crop vulnerable to heat over next six weeks
Rain is seen as a blessing from the heavens unless it keeps farmers from planting or harvesting on time. As the rain continued to fall throughout the spring planting season,…
by - June 18, 2013 5:57 pm
New senior health program caters to ‘mind, body, spirit’ (updated)
When a patient lives with a age-related emotional and mental disorder such as Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, the situation takes a toll on the person living with the…
by - June 18, 2013 4:29 pm
Questions raised about Brockovich’s Whirlpool review
They did not have to come. They chose to come after Fort Smith residents reached out and asked for help. But now there are questions about where Erin Brockovich's environmental…
by - June 18, 2013 4:12 pm
3rd District safe for Womack, tough for Democrats
Announcements have been pouring in in recent weeks for every office from state representative to governor. One such announcement was by Republican Thomas Brewer of Rogers, who said he would…
by - June 18, 2013 3:40 pm
U.S. freight activity rebounds in May
What a difference a month makes. After declines in April, the American Trucking Associations’ truck tonnage index and the Cass Freight Index reported gains in May. The reports from the…
by - June 18, 2013 1:23 pm
Local banking preference poll unveiled
Consumers living in Northwest Arkansas (420,000-plus) have 38 banks to choose from which makes Benton and Washington counties one of the most competitive markets for bankers in the country. In…
by - June 18, 2013 10:00 am
Walton Family Foundation grants $1.3 million to Arkansas schools
The Walton Family Foundation announced Tuesday (June 18) grants totaling $1.3 million to two organizations working to improve the quality of the state’s K-12 schools. The Arkansas Advanced Initiative for…
by - June 18, 2013 9:46 am
Walton Family Foundation Gives $1.3 Million to Arkansas Public School Groups
Investing in the two organizations is part of the foundations strategy to increase academic performance of the states students.
by - June 18, 2013 9:15 am
Tyson details assistance given to Moore, Okla.
Tyson Foods said its disaster relief teams served more than 80,000 meals to survivors and rescue workers in the aftermath of last month’s devastating tornado in Moore, Okla. The meat…
by - June 17, 2013 10:58 pm
Retailer briefs: Lowe’s acquisition, J.C. Penney staffing
• Lowes to expand its California footprint Lowe's agreed to buy Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corp. for $205 million, as the California-based Orchard filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday (June…