by - October 29, 2018 4:49 pm
For more than 150 years the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has been a destination for healthcare. While Northwest Arkansas continues to work toward being a destination for healthcare excellence…
by - October 29, 2018 4:32 pm
Talk Business & Politics is partnering with the Arkansas State University Delta Center for Economic Development to continue producing the closely watched The Compass Report. The Compass Report is the…
by - October 29, 2018 4:16 pm
A little more than $63 million in interstate rehab and signage work in Crawford, Benton, Sebastian and Washington counties has been approved by the Arkansas Highway Commission, with most of…
by - October 29, 2018 3:19 pm
Three years after its inception, Fayetteville startup Good Eats Food Co., has a new owner. Lakeside Foods, headquartered in Manitowoc, Wis., acquired the vegetable company, founded by Trey Taylor and…
by - October 29, 2018 3:09 pm
The integration of arts into curriculum across the University of Arkansas campus has begun, with the first professor being cross-appointed between the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the…
by - October 28, 2018 1:52 pm
The combined sales tax revenue in Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale totaled $6.027 million, up 10% from a year ago. Revenue in the October report rebounded from a tepid 1.54%…
by - October 28, 2018 1:28 pm
The average human transportation speed in 1850 was four miles per hour. The average reached 24 miles per hour by 1950, and futurist Thomas Frey believes it will be 225…
by - October 26, 2018 4:51 pm
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, encouraged nearly 1,000 students from Northwest Arkansas high schools and Springdale-based Northwest Technical Institute (NWTI) to seek a technical education. Womack spoke to the students…
by - October 26, 2018 4:02 pm
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the Oct. 15 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - October 26, 2018 8:29 am
A real estate investment trust in Little Rock has closed on the purchase of a Springdale multifamily development for $28.9 million. BSR REIT, a publicly traded multifamily management company, is…
by - October 25, 2018 6:33 pm
The United States Department of Agriculture intends to move its Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of Washington D.C. and Arkansas Agriculture Secretary…
by - October 25, 2018 5:47 pm
Jim Mote was an 18-year-old farm boy picking cotton in northeast Arkansas one morning when he saw a military truck approaching. It was September 1957, and Mote — one of…
by - October 25, 2018 5:07 pm
The good financial news continues for Van Buren-based USA Truck, which posted third quarter net income of $3.3 million, well ahead of the $409,000 in the same quarter of 2017….
by - October 25, 2018 4:37 pm
Arkansas State University was notified Wednesday (Oct. 24) by its food service provider, Sodexo, that one of its workers reported testing positive for the Hepatitis A virus, according to the…
by - October 25, 2018 2:15 pm
Fayetteville radio station KUAF 91.3 FM, the flagship National Public Radio station for Northwest Arkansas, raised 95% of its target amount during its recent fall fundraiser. Kyle Kellams, the station’s…
by - October 25, 2018 1:46 pm
The Arkansas Economic Development Institute (AEDI) in Little Rock has launched a new statistical dashboard that offers key demographic and economic data in one central online location. The institute, which…
by - October 24, 2018 8:15 pm
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission announced Wednesday (Oct. 24) that Newport and Paragould have completed the Competitive Communities Initiative evaluation that aims to ensure their preparedness to successfully compete for…
by - October 24, 2018 8:09 pm
The Conductor announced that its “High School Startup Day” program, presented in partnership with Junior Achievement of Arkansas and the University of Central Arkansas, has been selected as an official…
by - October 24, 2018 6:08 pm
Earlier this year, city officials in Jonesboro were concerned about the city’s declining sales and use tax numbers. Those concerns may have been premature. Jonesboro and Craighead County continued a…
by - October 24, 2018 5:49 pm
A trio of building supply developments in Benton and Washington counties recently sold for a combined $7.18 million. STORE Capital Corp. of Scottsdale, Ariz., through its Store Master Funding XV…
