Regions

Arvest Mortgage Company Announces Record-Breaking Year

Results in 2012 indicate a surge in purchase loans.

Arkansas banker, developer Doyle Rogers dies

Doyle Rogers, chairman of the board of Metropolitan National Bank and a highly successful real estate developer and businessman, has died at the age of 94. Metropolitan Bank CEO Lunsford…

Sparks Health part of federal healthcare initiative

Sparks Health System is one of 75 hospitals around the country selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to participate in a “Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative”…

Area building permit values down in January

The value of building permits in Fort Smith, Greenwood and Van Buren were a combined $12.886 million in January, down 2.93% compared to $13.275 million in January 2012. The decline…

Sparks Selected to Participate in New Initiative

Program will test how bundling payments can improve care and lower costs.

Bill filing and bill killing

• Senate Report: Week 3 review This past week saw some extremely positive news from the Governor with the announcement of our state’s first “Super Project” which happened to be…

Consumer spending trending flat in Arkansas

Consumer spending in Arkansas is trending almost flat, but overall Arkansas tax collections for the first seven months of the fiscal year totals $3.409 billion, or 3.7% higher than the…

Homeless number likely rising despite improving economy

A survey of Northwest Arkansas’s homeless that began Thursday (Jan. 31) will take a few days to process, but the results can have far-reaching effects, from the amount of federal…

MANA Spring Fling 5K & Family Fun Run

Please join us to help raise money for the MANA Charitable Fund that provides community health grants for education and awareness in Northwest Arkansas. Do your part by choosing to…