by - March 20, 2017 7:34 pm
A second farm in Tennessee contracted for Tyson Foods’ breeder stock has tested positive for Avian Influenza. Late last week state officials and Tyson Foods said they had began to…
by - March 20, 2017 7:21 pm
Adam Curtwright’s first job was at the Melba Theater in downtown Batesville. In elementary school, he’d watched many movies on the theater’s lone screen. After he graduated from high school,…
by - March 20, 2017 2:57 pm
Fort Smith closed 2016 in a final unaudited report submitted Saturday (March 18) that showed slight gains in the city’s sales tax collections for December and the year as a…
by - March 20, 2017 1:35 pm
One of Bentonville’s oldest businesses has been sold and is going out of business, possibly making way for more development in the city’s Market District. Bentonville Casting Co., founded in…
by - March 20, 2017 12:23 pm
Jonesboro issued $14.556 million in commercial permits in February, nearly three times as much as was issued in the same month in the last two years – combined. The city…
by - March 20, 2017 9:05 am
A 40,000-square-foot building that once housed Village on the Creeks Athletic Club in Rogers is under new ownership, with plans being developed for a new office building. Tim Graham II…
by - March 20, 2017 6:54 am
When legislator and attorney H.L. Ponder arrived at the capitol in Little Rock in 1903, he had one piece of legislation he wanted passed. His father founded the town of…
by - March 17, 2017 5:54 am
The Junior Leadership Academy (JLA) has wrapped up its inaugural year as a partnership between the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce and Fort Smith Public Schools (FSPS), and named…
by - March 16, 2017 5:53 pm
Fort Smith Internal Auditor Tracey Shockley has launched an audit of the River Valley Sports Complex (RVSC), the estimated $6 million project, of which the city agreed to contribute $1.6…
by - March 16, 2017 2:52 pm
Wal-Mart Stores, through its online subsidiary Jet.com, is reportedly about to close a deal for the trendy fashion startup ModCloth. The San Francisco Bay area company would mark Wal-Mart’s third…
by - March 16, 2017 2:12 pm
Earlier this year, Talk Business & Politics and the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal – with input from observers of the area’s startup scene – tagged several startup industries as the…
by - March 16, 2017 1:27 pm
Harps Food Stores has a new retail concept that advertises all items priced “at cost,” with a flat 10% added at the register. 10BOX Cost-Plus recently opened in a former…
by - March 16, 2017 10:44 am
A Texas real estate development company has acquired property at the corner of one Bentonville’s busiest intersections. According to county real estate records, Leon Capital Group of Dallas acquired the…
by - March 16, 2017 10:15 am
A University of Arkansas student team that formed the company Grox Industries won first place and almost $15,000 at the Stu Clark Investment Competition on March 11 at the University…
by - March 15, 2017 9:04 pm
Arkansas State University junior Ethan Barnes knew he wanted to major in business the first time he rubbed two dimes together. Thanks to a newly created scholarship endowment created by…
by - March 15, 2017 7:16 pm
For the last few years, the Fort Smith metro region has largely been a homebuyer’s market, but that is starting to change. According to Andy Hearn, an agent with Weichert…
by - March 15, 2017 6:04 pm
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation Wednesday that would combine Craighead County’s two judicial districts into one. Senate Bill 535 by Sen. John Cooper, R-Jonesboro, passed on a voice vote. The…
by - March 15, 2017 1:29 pm
Mark Byrd, manager for the new Sam’s Club under construction in Springdale, has signed on with Wal-Mart’s Lifetime Learning program to learn Spanish because many store customers are likely to…
by - March 15, 2017 9:53 am
The latest Skyline Report released Wednesday (March 8) included a key historical finding. Significant absorption of new homes led to the lowest level of remaining months of unbuilt lot inventory…
by - March 14, 2017 9:46 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved an additional $4 million in consent decree-related items Tuesday night (March 14) at its second regular meeting in two weeks, pushing consent decree…
