by - May 16, 2017 9:19 pm
NEA Baptist Clinic CEO Brad Parsons told Talk Business & Politics he hopes any changes to the national healthcare laws won’t result in fewer Arkansans with health insurance. Last year,…
by - May 16, 2017 1:36 pm
A vacant commercial building on Wedington Drive in Fayetteville has a new owner after a recent sale worth $2.2 million. Batesville-chartered The Citizens Bank acquired the 3,442-square-foot building at 3971…
by - May 16, 2017 12:59 pm
The Firecracker program unveiled at the recent ProHakathon sponsored by Fort Smith-based Propak on May 11 drew heavy attention from onlookers, who expressed conflicting emotions at what they were seeing…
by - May 16, 2017 12:32 pm
Rep. Mat Pitsch, R-Fort Smith, announced on Tuesday (May 16) his intent to run for the District 8 Senate seat occupied by fellow Republican Sen. Jake Files. The general election…
by - May 16, 2017 9:39 am
A Bentonville hotel recently sold for $3.45 million. An affiliate of The Packard Companies, a full-service management firm based in San Diego, bought the former Baymont Inn & Suites at…
by - May 15, 2017 8:32 pm
Fired Fort Smith Sanitation Director Mark Schlievert has provided documents through Fort Smith attorney Joey McCutchen suggesting the city’s landfilling of recycled materials may have originated in October 2014 instead…
by - May 15, 2017 7:28 pm
Entrepreneur and businessman Jody Shackelford knew it was time to seize the moment. A few years earlier, his grandfather Harry Shackelford invented The Rocket Shot, a device that shoots two…
by - May 15, 2017 4:47 pm
Talisa Borders and Otisha Woolbright, two former employees of Wal-Mart Stores, filed a lawsuit again the retail giant in the Southern District of Illinois on Friday (May 12). The suit…
by - May 15, 2017 4:25 pm
An Iowa-based meat processing company has acquired Decatur poultry business Crystal Lake Farms, including its Free Ranger line of chickens, for $3.5 million. West Liberty Foods filed the ownership paperwork…
by - May 15, 2017 1:37 pm
Land for a new restaurant on Pleasant Grove Road in Rogers has been acquired. Joplin, Mo., businessman A.J. Nursariwala, principal of The Nursariwala Group, paid Home Bancshares Inc. $925,000 for…
by - May 15, 2017 12:12 pm
It was American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who said, “Youth comes but once in a lifetime,” a simple yet powerful anecdote. The deeper meaning, though, is this: It’s…
by - May 14, 2017 9:27 pm
The window for many rice farmers to replant crops lost in the recent floods is closing, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson has sent a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue…
by - May 14, 2017 5:36 pm
Children learning through the kinds of hands-on play offered at the Scott Family Amazeum extends beyond the intellectual to the magical, Greg Foran, CEO of Walmart Stores, U.S., told 300…
by - May 12, 2017 10:51 pm
L.C. Hartsfield spent most of his career working indoors. As a production supervisor for several different companies through the years, he rarely had time to volunteer in his community. After…
by - May 12, 2017 3:39 pm
A venue designed to foster collaboration between Northwest Arkansas-based startups and enterprises opened this week in Bentonville. Exchange is a localized effort to help boost entrepreneurship in Northwest Arkansas. Its…
by - May 12, 2017 2:18 pm
Sam T. Sicard, president & CEO of First National Bank of Fort Smith, who was thrust unexpectedly into a business and community leadership role in 2011 when his father died,…
by - May 12, 2017 1:28 pm
Education is the key to environmental sustainability in the future. That was a primary message at the “Sustainability: Going Forward” panel at the Bentonville Film Festival on May 6 at…
by - May 12, 2017 6:47 am
Propak’s first annual “ProHak” hackathon event concluded Thursday night (May 11) with demonstrations from three teams from the company’s information technology (IT) departments. Projects included community food services, different ways…
by - May 11, 2017 7:11 pm
Questions remain after the termination of Fort Smith Sanitation Director Mark Schlievert on Wednesday (May 10). City Administrator Carl Geffken informed the city’s Board of Directors of the action via…
by - May 11, 2017 1:50 pm
Prosecutor Scott Ellington told Talk Business & Politics a probe into possible illegal activities by former Arkansas State University Chancellor Tim Hudson is not finished. Ellington’s office is examining Arkansas…
