by - April 4, 2018 2:49 pm
Carl Yates, the former president and majority owner of Northwest Arkansas’ oldest engineer firm, died Sunday (April 1). He was 88. Yates worked for Fayetteville engineering firm McGoodwin Williams &…
by - April 4, 2018 12:16 pm
Cecil Turner remembers Bentonville before urbanization. “I could drive on Walton Boulevard any time of day, even in what you would call rush hour, and never be behind more than…
by - April 4, 2018 11:57 am
A 59,748-square-foot retail building in Rogers recently sold for $8.41 million. The purchase price equals $140.84 per square foot. Vereit Real Estate LP of Phoenix, managed by real estate investment…
by - April 4, 2018 11:04 am
The University of Miami filed a motion in Craighead County Circuit Court to dismiss a breach of contract lawsuit filed by Arkansas State University. ASU responded to the dismissal motion…
by - April 4, 2018 10:49 am
Residential permit values from January and February totaled a combined $67.51 million for Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale, a drop of 17% compared to $81.43 million from the same period…
by - April 4, 2018 6:11 am
Next Step Dayroom will keep the federal grant award of $77,194 recommended to it by the Fort Smith Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC) after the city’s Board of Directors decided…
by - April 4, 2018 12:21 am
On Wednesday night (April 4), the four Democratic candidates vying for the Second Congressional District nomination will square off in their first debate. Democrats Gwen Combs, Jonathan Dunkley, Paul Spencer…
by - April 3, 2018 7:19 pm
The United States Marshals Museum announced Tuesday (April 3) receipt of an additional $350,000 gift from the family of the late Lt. Gov. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller. The Museum only has…
by - April 3, 2018 7:07 pm
Tri-State Enterprises hopes to expand warehouse operations at its 5412 S. 24th St., location in Fort Smith. The move is likely to add jobs, according to company owner Tristan Taylor,…
by - April 3, 2018 6:27 pm
Mercy’s $247 million ongoing expansion in Northwest Arkansas includes a 63,000-square-foot clinic and emergency and outpatient surgery center under construction in northwest Springdale. Kerry Harper, executive director of support services…
by - April 3, 2018 5:42 pm
When Neil Griffin returned home to Jonesboro following a stint in the Navy during World War II, he decided to get a high school diploma. His mother never made it…
by - April 3, 2018 10:07 am
Experience Fayetteville, the city’s tourism bureau, has joined the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), an organization that provides a network of free tourism resources and information for the…
by - April 2, 2018 9:06 pm
Oliver Chen, an analyst with Cowen & Co., places the odds of an acquisition of Humana by Walmart as high as 40%. He said odds are as high as 80%…
by - April 2, 2018 5:17 pm
The month of March was not a kind one to the Fort Smith metro region’s building sector as permitting activity dropped by more than 46% in its three primary cities…
by - April 2, 2018 4:51 pm
Transit supporters from the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina and Indianapolis will soon be in Northwest Arkansas to explain why businesses leaders there have looked to improve mobility. Joe Milazzo,…
by - April 2, 2018 3:53 pm
Corn and rice planting is underway in the Natural State but it’s a slow go in Northeast Arkansas. Rains and cold temperatures have stymied farmers’ efforts to get seeds into…
by - April 2, 2018 3:47 pm
A vacant hotel near Interstate 49 in Fayetteville has been torn down to make way for a new mixed-use development called Shiloh Crossings. The 197-room hotel at 1255 S. Shiloh…
by - April 2, 2018 3:04 pm
One objective former Lawrence County Judge Dale Freeman had during his tenure was to pave Lawrence County Road 210, a rural thoroughfare that connects a budding new business, American Silica,…
by - April 1, 2018 9:57 am
Ray Webb, who works with a Kansas City, Mo., planning organization that operates 700 traffic signals along major streets in Kansas and Missouri, recently shared signalization experiences and lessons learned…
by - March 30, 2018 9:57 am
The Fort Smith Civil Service Commission on Thursday (March 29) voted 3-2 to approve changes to the interview process for new firefighters. Commissioners Marty Shell, Orval Smith, and John Walker…
