by - January 23, 2018 3:12 pm
The Hot Wheels: Race to Win exhibit will open at the Scott Family Amazeum in Bentonville on Saturday (Jan. 27). Created by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the Hot Wheels…
by - January 23, 2018 1:19 pm
Fayetteville-based software startup Engine has raised $1 million in venture capital to fund its cloud-based e-commerce software platform. Among the company’s initial investors, according to a news release sent Tuesday…
by - January 23, 2018 7:57 am
Springdale-based Weichert, Realtors — The Griffin Co. has acquired a Weichert franchise in Fort Smith owned by Kevin and Elizabeth King. Terms of the deal, which officially closed Jan. 1,…
by - January 22, 2018 7:02 pm
Craighead County Judge Ed Hill will not seek a fifth term. Hill, 62, told Talk Business & Politics he’s worked for the county a total of 43 years, and he…
by - January 22, 2018 4:39 pm
Consumer packaged goods company Pinnacle Foods Inc., the largest private employer in Fayetteville, said Monday (Jan. 22) it will build a 164,000 square-foot cold storage warehouse connected directly to its…
by - January 22, 2018 3:47 pm
A $30 million wrongful termination lawsuit brought by Jon Thompson of Rogers against Florida-based Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits was abruptly dismissed Jan. 9 in Fayetteville. Thompson’s attorney declined to…
by - January 22, 2018 3:46 pm
After months of speculation and a year of work, Silgan appears to be moving forward with an estimated $38 million investment in a Fort Smith manufacturing facility expected to create…
by - January 22, 2018 11:28 am
Rising home costs helped contribute to a milestone last year in the Northwest Arkansas housing market. Real estate agents combined to sell $2.208 billion worth of residential properties in 2017…
by - January 20, 2018 10:25 am
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said Friday that he is confident that the U.S., Canada and Mexico will come to a resolution on a new North American Free Trade…
by - January 19, 2018 4:36 pm
The controversial herbicide dicamba cannot be used by Arkansas farmers during the bulk of the 2018 growing season. The Arkansas Legislative Council voted Friday (Jan. 19) to invoke an Arkansas…
by - January 19, 2018 4:08 pm
Tennessee developer Vita Residential, led by president and CEO Steve Sisson, has picked up a 32-year mortgage of $21.78 million from Walker and Dunlop, a Maryland-based commercial real estate finance…
by - January 19, 2018 8:06 am
The Agency in Little Rock has issued a casting call for up to 1,500 actors, stand-ins and photo-doubles to be part of the third season of the HBO crime anthology…
by - January 18, 2018 6:09 pm
Thaddeus Caraway’s greatest contribution to U.S. politics and government may be linked to his untimely death. The longtime congressman and U.S. senator died abruptly Nov. 6, 1931 from a blood…
by - January 18, 2018 4:54 pm
Fort Smith Police Chief Nathaniel Clark’s first day on the job was Jan. 9, 2017. Four days later, he formally requested an audit of his department, writing to Internal Auditor…
by - January 18, 2018 1:49 pm
Blake Woolsey, a long-tenured executive at Fayetteville public relations firm Mitchell, has resigned, effective Jan. 31. Woolsey has worked with company founder Elise Mitchell for the past 18 years, and…
by - January 18, 2018 9:39 am
The nonprofit Peel Compton Foundation of Bentonville has named former Wal-Mart Stores executive Debra Layton as interim executive director, after the resignation of Corrin Troutman. Layton retired from Wal-Mart last…
by - January 17, 2018 3:54 pm
Residents in Jonesboro were fed up with a continuing problem, and in 1906 they decided to do something about it. Sewer waste water spewed in the streets. A group of…
by - January 17, 2018 6:51 am
The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved an increase in parking meter rates at Tuesday night’s (Jan. 16) meeting, moving from the 25-cent-per-hour rate of the last 32 years to…
by - January 16, 2018 8:19 pm
Propelling Downtown Forward and a new “food court” at Garrison Commons Park were main topics at Tuesday’s (Jan. 16) meeting of the Central Business Improvement District (CBID). CBID commissioners approved…
by - January 16, 2018 6:30 pm
Arkansas is one step away from banning the controversial herbicide dicamba for virtually all of the 2018 growing season. Members of the Administrative Rules and Regulations Subcommittee of the Arkansas…
