by - April 5, 2017 5:14 pm
Dan Cowling, president of The Communications Group, a Little Rock-based marketing, advertising and public relations firm, announced today the company has promoted Jason Brown to director of public relations, managing the…
by - April 5, 2017 4:50 pm
Plans to build a 165-room Hyatt Place Hotel and an adjoining 78,000-square-foot convention center near Jonesboro’s hotel row off Caraway Road are in peril. Dirt work has been begun at…
by - April 5, 2017 4:32 pm
Wal-Mart Stores is once again tiptoeing toward expansion plans in India, after pausing the past couple of years since the breakup of its partnership with Bharti. IGD Retail recently noted…
by - April 5, 2017 4:23 pm
Ritter Agribusiness is helping to bridge a gap between technology companies and farms by providing testing grounds for startups associated with the AgLaunch initiative. Ritter Ag, based in the eastern…
by - April 5, 2017 4:07 pm
FedEx Office will open a printing and shipping center inside a Walmart Supercenter in Rogers at 4208 Pleasant Crossing Blvd., and it will be the first one located in a…
by - April 5, 2017 4:05 pm
Fort Smith Public Schools (FSPS) will ramp up efforts to close the minority hiring gap for teachers and administrators, according to FSPS Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources and Support Services…
by - April 5, 2017 1:19 pm
The Springdale Advertising and Promotion Commission on Wednesday (April 5) announced the launch of a new regional website designed to promote Northwest Arkansas’ golf tourism. NWAGolfTrail.com provides online booking for…
by - April 5, 2017 10:16 am
The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub has hired a manager for the Delta I-Fund program. Amy Hopper, now senior financial analyst at Newell Brands, will relocate to Little Rock from Atlanta…
by - April 5, 2017 10:09 am
Cromwell Architects Engineers has opened a Fayetteville office, and it’s a homecoming in more ways than one for the Little Rock-based firm. Cromwell architect Josh Danish, who is a graduate…
by - April 5, 2017 9:59 am
Retail giant Wal-Mart in its re-organization of the Walmart U.S. technology division is eliminating around 300 jobs in the Information Systems Division (ISD). Insiders said the retailer is laying off…
by - April 4, 2017 10:09 pm
Each year the Fort Smith Board of Directors reviews recommendations from its citizen-led Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC) on how to allocate federal funding to area nonprofit programs designed for…
by - April 4, 2017 8:05 pm
The top two paid executives for USA Truck in 2016 no longer work for the Van Buren-based carrier, according to its proxy statement filed Tuesday (April 4) with the U.S….
by - April 4, 2017 2:04 pm
Permit values for residential construction in the region’s four largest cities were up through the first two months of the year compared to 2016. Residential permit values from January and…
by - April 4, 2017 1:51 pm
Experience Fayetteville has a new logo and website, and it will soon launch a new marketing campaign aimed at attracting more tourism to the city. Agency officials revealed the updated…
by - April 4, 2017 1:33 pm
The 3rd Annual Peacemaker Music & Arts Festival will hit downtown Fort Smith on July 28 and 29 with headlining acts Gov’t Mule and Jamey Johnson leading a lineup of…
by - April 3, 2017 8:02 pm
Fort Smith, Van Buren, and Greenwood, posted building permit value gains through the first three months of 2017 compared to the same period last year. Overall the three cities added…
by - April 3, 2017 7:41 pm
Momentum is a key ingredient to the success of any organization, and the most populous city and county in Northeast Arkansas are once again collecting sales tax receipts at an…
by - April 3, 2017 7:37 pm
Marcy Doderer, president and CEO of Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), said news of Phase II in Springdale was announced prematurely on Friday (March 31), and not everything told to the…
by - April 3, 2017 2:52 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is planning to build a new distribution center in Bentonville, about five miles southwest of its headquarters on Walton Boulevard. The company has submitted its large-scale development…
by - April 3, 2017 11:46 am
The Downtown Little Rock Partnership announced on Monday (April 3) the dates for the upcoming event series, Main Street Food Truck Fridays, and also for Main Street Food Truck Festival…
