by - May 24, 2012 4:58 pm
The announcement that tech giant Hewlett-Packard will lay off 27,000 workers worldwide sent reverberations through Arkansas economic circles, particularly in Conway where the company opened a 1,000 employee, $28 million…
by - May 24, 2012 4:40 pm
Rheem Manufacturing laid off 16 salaried jobs at its Fort Smith plant and a distribution center in Lewisville, Texas, on Thursday (May 24), but a company official says the move…
by - May 24, 2012 3:46 pm
Local homebuilders and commercial contractors say business is steady through the first one-third of 2012. April permit values increased 8.87% among the five largest retail districts in Benton and Washington…
by - May 24, 2012 3:39 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — He might look like a typical college student in a coffee shop: backpack, water bottle, T-shirt and shorts. But this just might be a kid who will change…
by - May 24, 2012 2:52 pm
Ro DiBrezzo has served as interim vice provost for the past year.
by - May 24, 2012 2:51 pm
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by - May 24, 2012 2:21 pm
Amanda Bondurant, RNC-NIC, a neonatal intensive care nurse at Washington Regional Medical Center, recently received an ANGELS Award for Outstanding Service in Neonatal Nursing. The University of Arkansas for Medical…
by - May 24, 2012 9:21 am
Terry Rice and Uvalde Lindsey may soon be on opposite ends of a more divisive political arena come January, but both say they don’t want Little Rock politics to morph…
by - May 23, 2012 11:00 pm
BLOOMBERG — When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the justices said next to nothing about racial equality, the ideal that drove the landmark law’s enactment….
by - May 23, 2012 10:21 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Cary Arsaga, founder of a half-dozen Arsaga’s coffee shops and once a mayoral candidate in this town, has mortgaged his house and businesses in pursuit of a cafe…
by - May 23, 2012 8:51 pm
John Brown University has been awarded a 5-year, $1.35 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition to help fund the JBU TESOL Graduate Program….
by - May 23, 2012 6:55 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, Daniel Poneman, presented a local company with a $150,000 grant for innovative energy research on Wednesday, May 23, as he visited the…
by - May 23, 2012 5:11 pm
In the coming decade, emerging technologies will thoroughly transform higher education. Although distance learning and computer-assisted education have been around since the 1960s, financial pressures are forcing institutions to develop…
by - May 23, 2012 5:00 pm
Beef U.S. beef packer margins averaged about $10 per head last week, according to Hedgers Edge. A year ago packers were just breaking even. Bob Wilson at Hedgers Edge said…
by - May 23, 2012 4:55 pm
Political control of Arkansas’ House and Senate will be a point of numerous media stories between now and November, but Republicans are clearly in the majority in the Northwest Arkansas…
by - May 23, 2012 3:47 pm
Fayetteville power electronics firm one of 69 businesses nationwide to get portion of $11 million in federal grants.
by - May 23, 2012 3:19 pm
T. Baridi Nkokheli, director of sanitation for the City of Fort Smith, has depicted U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves on behalf of the city since 2007. As the unveiling of…
by - May 23, 2012 3:17 pm
After six consecutive months of year-over-year gains, tax collections for Fort Smith were down less than 1% in the April report. However, the year-to-date collections are more than 5% above…
by - May 23, 2012 1:50 pm
Cities across Northwest Arkansas continue to report strong sales tax collections in May, according to a report from the Arkansas Department of Finance earlier this week. Among the region’s five…
by - May 23, 2012 1:15 pm
BLOOMBERG — The California State Teachers’ Retirement System will vote its 5.3 million Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shares against the entire board’s re-election amid a probe into alleged bribery in Mexican…
