by - September 26, 2017 5:39 pm
Only 37% of 2012 freshman students who began class at Arkansas State University graduated with a four-year degree in 2016. ASU-Jonesboro Chancellor Kelly Damphousse has formed a 15-member Chancellor’s Commission…
by - September 26, 2017 4:10 pm
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the Sept. 18 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - September 26, 2017 5:39 am
Fort Smith School Board President Dr. Deanie Mehl stepped away from her post for the first time in 12 years on Monday night (Sept. 25) during the Board’s regular meeting….
by - September 25, 2017 6:15 pm
He started his business in a friend’s living room 20 years ago, and now he has locations across the country. Jonesboro businessman and entrepreneur Ted Herget, owner and founder of…
by - September 25, 2017 5:31 pm
University of Arkansas School of Art head Jeannie Hulen would like to see Northwest Arkansas become a nationally recognized arts hub, and she believes recent support shows the region is…
by - September 25, 2017 5:04 pm
Sales tax revenue in Northwest Arkansas’ four largest cities continues to set records. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Springdale and Rogers reported a combined $49.674 million in sales tax revenue through September of…
by - September 25, 2017 11:47 am
Northwest Arkansas has seen a surge in public arts activity in the past five years, and the movement takes a prominent role in plans for community development, especially downtown. “What…
by - September 25, 2017 9:24 am
The University of Arkansas will open a co-working space and training center Friday (Sept. 29) in the former Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce building downtown at 123 W. Mountain St. The…
by - September 24, 2017 5:15 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Service has deployed all of its 86,000 intermodal containers, has had its dedicated segment “hitting on all cylinders,” and shifted the mix in its brokerage division toward…
by - September 24, 2017 10:28 am
The Arkansas accounting firm of JPMS Cox will merge in January 2018 with Oklahoma-based HoganTaylor, creating one of the region’s largest independent accounting firms with more than 300 employees. The…
by - September 22, 2017 12:42 pm
The American Heart Association (AHA) has named Chuck Fehlig its 2017-2018 Northwest Arkansas board chairman and Dr. Margaret Tremwel board president. Fehlig, president and CEO of Fehlig & Associates, previously…
by - September 22, 2017 9:38 am
Northwest Arkansas is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, and the accompanying ripple effect has been felt in many areas. That includes the faith community, and leaders of…
by - September 22, 2017 12:16 am
Just two weeks after Mercy Clinic-Fort Smith and Cooper Clinic announced merger talks, five of the six orthopedic surgeons at Cooper Clinic are leaving to join Sparks Health System, the…
by - September 21, 2017 11:24 pm
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) President and CEO Kyle Parker hinted the newly opened medical colleges were on the verge of announcing new developments on the Barling side of…
by - September 21, 2017 10:42 pm
The Arkansas State Plant Board voted Thursday afternoon (Sept. 21) to limit the use of the herbicide dicamba to before April 16, 2018, despite a chorus of farmers asking for…
by - September 21, 2017 12:07 pm
Benton County acreage with Interstate 49 frontage changed ownership recently in two separate deals for a combined $1.65 million. IDO Arkansas LLC of Tulsa, Okla., led by Robert D. Stephens,…
by - September 20, 2017 4:02 pm
Brenda Yelvington never told herself she wanted to make a movie. Yet on Saturday night (Sept. 16) she received a message on Facebook informing her she had won Best Documentary…
by - September 20, 2017 3:42 pm
Jim and Wanda Lee Vaughn spent their professional careers as educators and the couple decided to give much of their estate back to their college, Arkansas State University. The couple’s…
by - September 20, 2017 10:34 am
Menguin, an online tuxedo rental startup previously headquartered in Fayetteville, has been acquired for $25 million by competitor Generation Tux, a company founded by Men’s Wearhouse founder George Zimmer. The…
by - September 20, 2017 10:31 am
Del Monte Foods of California announced Wednesday (Sept. 20) it has sold its Sager Creek Vegetable Co. business based in Siloam Springs to McCall Farms of South Carolina, a food…
