by - March 23, 2017 3:48 pm
Almost one year has passed since Van Buren Original (VBO) – a group consisting of business owners, city leaders, and citizens – formed to revitalize the city’s downtown district. Prior…
by - March 23, 2017 2:04 pm
The March sales tax report was an improvement for the four largest cities in Northwest Arkansas with combined sales tax revenue of $5.119 million, up 18% from a year ago….
by - March 23, 2017 9:38 am
If Fayetteville city officials grant a requested rezoning of property on Leverett Avenue, a multimillion-dollar apartment development is likely on the way. The Fayetteville Planning Commission will consider a rezoning…
by - March 23, 2017 4:17 am
Between 2015 and 2016, Northwest Arkansas added about 31 people per day, or an estimated 11,583 people, making it the 22nd fastest growing area out of the 382 areas in…
by - March 22, 2017 4:30 pm
NOWDiagnostics of Springdale has been named a finalist in the 2017 Medical Design Excellence Awards for its ADEXUSDx product line, the company announced on March 15. Its rapid point-of-care tests…
by - March 22, 2017 2:42 pm
Off-price retailer Gordmans has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in its home state of Nebraska. The retailer said it contracted with Tiger Capital Group and Great American Group for the sale…
by - March 22, 2017 1:41 pm
Filmmaker and Little Rock native Jeff Nichols has launched a year-round cinema organization in Arkansas called Arkansas Cinema Society. According to an exclusive interview with IndieWire, Nichols will launch ACS…
by - March 21, 2017 10:09 pm
The movement to merge Walnut Ridge and Hoxie into one town in Lawrence County is likely dead. The consolidation’s staunchest supporter, Walnut Ridge Mayor Charles Snapp, told Talk Business &…
by - March 21, 2017 6:20 pm
The Sebastian County finance department recently had to rescind an email that revealed 200 employees’ bank account numbers. According to a text message sent to Talk Business & Politics, the…
by - March 21, 2017 3:56 pm
Walmart.com has launched an internal hub it calls Store No. 8 in the heart of Silicon Valley in hopes of harnessing e-commerce innovation that will ultimately help the retailer grow…
by - March 21, 2017 10:28 am
Beyond expanding into more fitness apparel, fashion has been a difficult category for Walmart U.S. in recent years. That could be changing for the retail giant since its subsidiary Jet.com…
by - March 21, 2017 9:14 am
Jimmy’s Egg expects to open its first Arkansas restaurant at Nelson’s Crossing in Fayetteville on March 27, franchise owner Hunter Boelte said. The nearly 3,500-square-foot restaurant at 3931 N. Shiloh…
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…
