by - February 26, 2018 8:40 pm
The 57-member Citizens Committee responsible for millage recommendations on the Fort Smith Public School (FSPS) District’s five-year strategic plan presented its final report to the School Board on Monday (Feb….
by - February 26, 2018 6:12 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has been named the state’s co-chair of the Delta Regional Authority’s Board of Governors. He replaces outgoing co-chair Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey . He will serve alongside…
by - February 26, 2018 6:04 pm
An EF-1 tornado ransacked parts of rural Mississippi County near the town of Keiser on Saturday night and the entire region was deluged with heavy rains. One person in the…
by - February 26, 2018 4:24 pm
Northwest Arkansas must make “transformative” changes in order to keep up with a changing digital economy in the decades ahead, said Rick Webb, recently named president of the Northwest Arkansas…
by - February 26, 2018 1:40 pm
Cameron Smith, founder of executive recruiting firm Cameron Smith & Associates (CSA) in Rogers, announced Monday (Feb. 26) a business expansion with the addition of an international division. Smith has…
by - February 26, 2018 11:16 am
Two familiar names in Benton County’s culinary scene have been hired to give the operations of a Bentonville restaurant a shot in the arm. Rob Nelson, executive chef and owner…
by - February 25, 2018 9:11 pm
Jim Dunn, president of the United States Marshals Museum (USMM) Foundation, ran into pushback about the $15 million Kelley Highway extension to Riverfront Drive project at a recent meeting of…
by - February 25, 2018 8:01 pm
Two of Arkansas’ most famous business icons have entered the state’s retail automotive industry. A group of investors has completed a deal to purchase three Northwest Arkansas car dealerships from…
by - February 25, 2018 9:39 am
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, expects an attempt at bipartisanship to reform the Congressional budgeting process, but he’s less certain of consensus on altering gun laws in the wake of…
by - February 23, 2018 12:28 pm
Springdale wants feedback on the design for the widening and extension of 56th Street, between the roundabout on Don Tyson Parkway in Springdale and Johnson Mill Boulevard in Johnson. Design…
by - February 22, 2018 6:58 pm
The Northwest Arkansas construction industry has been on the rebound since 2012, when 11,599 worked in the sector. The region had an estimated 13,933 construction jobs in 2017, about 200…
by - February 22, 2018 5:32 pm
Ken Blevins says it’s time to “drain the Sebastian County swamp.” The former Circuit Clerk who left office under a cloud of scandal has filed to run for the office…
by - February 22, 2018 4:47 pm
A Springfield, Mo.-based engineering firm has — for the second time — opened an office in Arkansas. Anderson Engineering Inc. is under contract to purchase a 4,764-square-foot building at 5311…
by - February 22, 2018 8:37 am
Springdale-based Cross Church, the state’s largest church congregation, will hold the first services in its new Fayetteville campus this weekend. Services are scheduled for 8:15 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11:30…
by - February 21, 2018 8:06 pm
The Crawford County Adult Education Center in Van Buren has announced a new industrial manufacturing technician pre-apprenticeship program authorized by the National Apprenticeship Training Foundation (NATF). The program will roll…
by - February 21, 2018 7:57 pm
Arkansas State University is among U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2017-2018 Fulbright students, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The…
by - February 21, 2018 7:54 pm
NEA Baptist plans to expand its operations with a new clinic in Brookland, immediately north of Jonesboro. The new 7,000-square-foot-clinic is set for the corner of U.S. 49 North and…
by - February 21, 2018 7:36 pm
At least two Fort Smith Directors are not supportive of how the city handled the employment of Police Officer Lindsay Herring. But Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken said Herring…
by - February 21, 2018 6:38 pm
It was another big sales tax revenue payday for Bentonville in the February report following triple-digit growth in January. City leaders have said they don’t get too excited about boon…
by - February 21, 2018 4:45 pm
A 27,000-square-foot, single-story structure in Fayetteville will be the first in Arkansas built with cross-laminated timber, or CLT. The engineered wood is made by gluing together wooden beams under high…
