by - April 26, 2018 3:54 pm
Future School of Fort Smith has received a “B” letter grade from the Arkansas Board of Education. The grade is based on a variety of factors including test performance, teacher…
by - April 26, 2018 3:46 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson appointed the president of a cotton-oil mill and a lifelong farmer to Arkansas’s State Plant Board on Thursday (April 26). John Fricke of Bryant will represent fertilizer and…
by - April 26, 2018 3:44 pm
The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is warning of a possible Hepatitis A exposure after an employee at the Doublebee’s gas station in Walnut Ridge tested positive for the virus….
by - April 26, 2018 8:46 am
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the April 16 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - April 25, 2018 3:38 pm
Sales tax receipts in Craighead County and Jonesboro dropped significantly and officials are scrambling to find a reason why. Jonesboro posted $1.283 million in sales and use taxes in the…
by - April 25, 2018 3:25 pm
Service Line Warranties of America (SLWA), the optional insurance coverage for exterior water and sewer service lines from meter to home, has increased enrollment to 1,099 signups in Fort Smith…
by - April 25, 2018 1:22 pm
Architects were announced Wednesday (April 25) for expansion of the University of Arkansas School of Art into a designated arts district in south Fayetteville, part of a $40 million gift…
by - April 25, 2018 8:03 am
Northwest Arkansas’ arts and culture scene is vibrant, and those in the music industry are beginning to take note. One of them is Al Bell, the chairman and CEO of…
by - April 25, 2018 6:22 am
Sebastian County Collector/Treasurer candidate Steve Hotz took aim at incumbent Judith Miller’s management of excess commission funds at a Tuesday (April 24) debate hosted by the Sebastian County Republican Women….
by - April 25, 2018 6:18 am
Lakeport Legacies, a monthly talk focusing on history in the Delta will begin Thursday (April 26), with a presentation on “Rev. Green Hill Jones: From Slavery to the State House”…
by - April 24, 2018 9:33 pm
Mercy Hospitals in Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas each received a safety grade of “A” from the Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital watchdog group. Mercy also recently ranked as one…
by - April 24, 2018 8:21 pm
Fort Smith Utilities Director Jerry Walters on Tuesday (April 24) updated the Board on several projects his department has going, including how the city could be losing between $2 million…
by - April 24, 2018 5:48 pm
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, the state’s largest non-profit professional theatre company, has suspended operations, with theatre officials and supporters working to raise $750,000 to address its “significant cash flow” problem….
by - April 24, 2018 3:31 pm
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services honored 77 drivers with 2 million, 3 million and 4 million safe miles, and awarded nearly $1 million in bonuses for reaching the number…
by - April 24, 2018 2:12 pm
Signature Bank of Arkansas is expanding to Rogers, a move that will once again give the $600 million-asset bank a branch in each of the region’s four largest cities. The…
by - April 24, 2018 12:12 pm
Combined sales tax revenue among Northwest Arkansas’ four largest cities improved in the April report after falling flat the prior month. Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale cumulatively reported sales tax…
by - April 24, 2018 6:28 am
State officials said Monday (April 23) that they would make a new push to preserve, rehabilitate and occupy the historic Mosaic Templars State Temple building, the last remaining building built…
by - April 23, 2018 8:37 pm
On Monday (April 23), Dr. Terry Morawski, chief operations officer for Fort Smith Public Schools, unveiled an implementation plan for the upcoming $120.822 million, 5.558-mill millage increase in the event…
by - April 23, 2018 6:18 pm
Simmons First National Corp., which pushed its reach into Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado in 2017, reported that quarterly profits more than doubled from a year ago as the Pine Bluff-based…
by - April 23, 2018 4:26 pm
First National Bank announced a deal Monday (April 23) to acquire the once-troubled Onebanc of Little Rock, further expanding the Northeast Arkansas’ community bank’s fast-growing footprint into the state’s largest…
