by - May 5, 2022 10:10 am
Atlas Tube, a division of Zekelman Industries, has opened its newest steel mill in Blytheville. It’s the second facility they have opened in Mississippi County’s largest city. The new facility…
by - May 5, 2022 9:17 am
Fertilizer prices have edged slightly downward in recent months, but remain a worrisome aspect of the 2022 growing season for farmers. In addition to supply chain issues relating to the…
by - May 5, 2022 9:11 am
Bank OZK hired Chris Henry as Managing Director, Trust and Wealth Group, the company announced Thursday (May 5). Henry will be charged with leading and growing Bank OZK’s services in…
by - May 4, 2022 5:32 pm
Members of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) may in the near future consider ideas that alter the process by which property offers are known to the authority even if…
by - May 4, 2022 4:44 pm
Arkansas State University System President Dr. Chuck Welch announced Wednesday (May 4) that Jeff Purinton, an athletics administrator who most recently spent the last seven years as part of the…
by - May 4, 2022 4:05 pm
Sandy Dixon and Brittney Hall are vying for the Fort Smith Public School Board Zone 2 position. The school board approved a new zone map with five single-membered and two…
by - May 4, 2022 3:50 pm
Three candidates – Corey Seats, Sonia Fonticiella and Martin Lilly – are vying in the May 24th primary to become the next prosecutor in the Second Judicial District which includes…
by - May 4, 2022 12:59 pm
Rogers startup Firebend was spun out of Fort Smith-based Propak Corp. after founder Steve Clark envisioned the supply chain company as a technology company with supply chain expertise, an executive…
by - May 4, 2022 9:49 am
Jonesboro-based real estate developer Haag Brown is in the preliminary stages of opening a second Starbucks location in Springdale. The company announced Wednesday (May 4) plans to build a 2,600-square-foot…
by - May 4, 2022 8:59 am
The Bluebird Group, a retail services consulting firm based in Minneapolis, Minn., has acquired 479 Sales & Marketing, a full-service omnichannel retail agency in Rogers. Financial terms of the deal…
by - May 4, 2022 8:33 am
Topgolf Entertainment Group said Wednesday (May 4) it has “set plans in motion” to locate a venue in Little Rock, its second venue in Arkansas. Topgolf has a high-tech entertainment…
by - May 3, 2022 7:04 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (May 3) approved zoning for an estimated $50 million residential development that developer Mark Rouse said will be unique to the city…
by - May 3, 2022 5:04 pm
Multi-time Grammy award winner Rosanne Cash will receive an honorary doctoral degree during Arkansas State University’s spring commencement ceremony on Saturday (May 7). The ASU Board of Trustees voted in…
by - May 3, 2022 2:20 pm
Year-to-date home sales through the first three months of 2022 in Northwest Arkansas’ two largest counties are booming compared with the same period last year. There were 2,639 homes sold…
by - May 3, 2022 1:36 pm
Fort Smith Public School Board member Troy Ecklehoff is being challenged by Phillip Whiteaker for the district’s Zone 1 position. The school board approved a new zone map with five…
by - May 3, 2022 9:48 am
Editor’s Note: The following story appeared in the April 25 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business…
by - May 3, 2022 8:08 am
In 1918, the Great War was ending in Europe and a new strain of influenza, the Spanish Flu, was causing illness around the world. Residents of Stuttgart, located in Arkansas…
by - May 2, 2022 9:44 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced appointments to several boards and commissions within the Arkansas Department of Agriculture. Here is a list of the appointments within the department: Arkansas Forestry Commission David…
by - May 2, 2022 7:26 pm
Three major crops in Arkansas – rice, soybeans, and corn – are behind planting schedules after heavy rains soaked agriculture fields repeatedly in April, according to Jarrod Hardke, extension rice…
by - May 2, 2022 5:25 pm
The Community School of the Arts will open the first arts preschool in Arkansas in August. The Preschool for the Creative Arts will open to children ages 3 to 5,…
