by - October 4, 2022 3:04 pm
Fort Worth-based engineering firm Freese and Nichols Inc. has opened a Northwest Arkansas office. The company has signed a lease inside Founders Plaza at 5001 W. Founders Way in Rogers….
by - October 4, 2022 12:01 pm
Goodwill Industries of Arkansas has been awarded a Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program grant by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and Bureau of Justice Assistance…
by - October 4, 2022 11:01 am
Caddo River Wood Products, LLC has announced the opening of a hardwood sawmill that will create 15 new jobs on 54 acres in Clark County. The company said it plans…
by - October 4, 2022 10:56 am
Entergy Arkansas, a utility of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., has received regulatory approval for a 250-megawatt solar farm near Osceola in Mississippi County, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 4) news…
by - October 4, 2022 10:01 am
The commercial vacancy rate in Northwest Arkansas fell to 5.8% in the first half of 2022, from 8.3% in the second half of 2021, according to a new report on…
by - October 3, 2022 7:39 pm
The 2022 Diamond Lakes Tourism Conference will take place at DeGray Lake Resort State Park on October 17 and 18. The conference will include a job fair and breakout sessions…
by - October 3, 2022 5:52 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward and the Arkansas Department of Agriculture inducted 37 additional Arkansas farms into the Arkansas Century Farm Program Monday (Oct. 3). The…
by - October 3, 2022 5:29 pm
Arkansas State University Chancellor Dr. Todd Shields has been appointed to the Arkansas Research Alliance Board of Trustees. As chancellor of a research university, Shields joins fellow chancellors Dr. Laurence…
by - October 3, 2022 5:12 pm
Building activity in Fort Smith dipped in September, but activity in Greenwood and Van Buren kept the metro area above where it was last year. The year-to-date permit value in…
by - October 3, 2022 1:05 pm
Marshalltown is adding more than 100 jobs to its Fayetteville locations with the acquisition of Long Beach, Calif.-based Wal-Board Tools. Financial terms were not disclosed. Marshalltown said nearly 200 total…
by - October 3, 2022 10:52 am
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. announced Monday (Oct. 3) the expansion of its transloading service to include operations in Tacoma, Wash., and Laredo, Texas. Following this expansion, the…
by - October 3, 2022 10:39 am
Craig Shy, who has worked for Arvest Bank since September 2004, will take over Nov. 1 as the president and CEO of the company’s Fayetteville market. He is succeeding Donny…
by - October 3, 2022 9:54 am
Officials said that those looking to install electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure should build to upgrade as the technology is changing rapidly. Leaders with HFA, a Bentonville-based architecture and engineering…
by - October 3, 2022 9:47 am
Drought conditions have worsened throughout the Arkansas Delta and there will be impacts to farmers as the harvest season unfolds. The lack of rain has been so severe that the…
by - October 2, 2022 10:37 am
Zipline, the California-based autonomous drone delivery company innovating in Northwest Arkansas, recently hired a Tesla veteran as its first chief business and financial officer. Deepak Ahuja starts the new job…
by - October 2, 2022 10:15 am
Scott Edmondson, formerly the vice president of economic development for the Springdale Chamber of Commerce, resigned recently and is now working for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC) in Little…
by - October 2, 2022 10:00 am
A recent workshop held at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, coordinated by Conway-based The Conductor, led to a report with 56 recommendations for improving the entrepreneurial environment in Arkansas. Grace Rains,…
by - October 1, 2022 5:37 am
The Arkansas rice industry donated 214,900 pounds of rice to the Arkansas Foodbank on Thursday (Sept. 29) in honor of National Rice Month. The donation from seven mills will provide…
by - October 1, 2022 5:18 am
The Venture Center, in partnership with the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, announced its fifth Spark! cohort of leaders representing seven Arkansas-based small businesses. The 10-week accelerator helps participating…
by - September 29, 2022 4:24 pm
The Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce has hired Cody Slater as its new vice president of Chamber programs. Slater has seven years of experience in chamber leadership and economic development….
