by - August 14, 2025 11:37 am
The 5,000-square-foot Oak Steakhouse Rogers recently opened atop the new six-story, 170-room Hotel Avail at 4100 S. Pinnacle Hills Parkway in the Pinnacle Hills area of Rogers, according to a…
by - August 13, 2025 11:17 am
The seven-story, 131-room Moxy Fayetteville at 530 W. Streamside Bend will open in September. The $33 million hotel is a collaboration between Fayetteville-based Specialized Real Estate Group and Little Rock-based…
by - August 11, 2025 1:48 pm
The Professional and Business Services and the Leisure and Hospitality – tourism – sectors provided part of the Fort Smith metro year-over-year job growth in June, with the tourism sector…
by - August 9, 2025 12:03 pm
Following are recent news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Affordable Housing Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) provided a $90,000 Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grant through…
by - August 7, 2025 11:55 am
Rogers-based Ozark United FC recently announced its inaugural Youth Academy founding partners are Unilever, Arkansas Children’s and America’s Car-Mart. As part of the club’s youth development program, these organizations will…
by - August 6, 2025 12:45 pm
The city of Jonesboro has launched its City Park Ranger Program, marking a milestone as one of the first municipalities in Arkansas to develop a full-time initiative blending public safety,…
by - August 6, 2025 12:16 pm
During a Tuesday (Aug. 5) meeting in Fort Smith with volunteer leaders of the Fort Kids Children’s Museum, U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, committed to helping make the museum a…
by - August 5, 2025 8:17 pm
Say goodbye to the more than 300 parking meters in downtown Fort Smith, and the annual loss to the City of Fort Smith of around $35,000 for meter maintenance and…
by - August 5, 2025 10:27 am
Kim Bryden wanted to be like Jennifer Garner in “Alias.” She was working for the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration in Washington, D.C., because she was being screened to work for…
by - August 4, 2025 1:13 pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville recently opened two art galleries, one on campus and a satellite gallery at Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) in Highfill. The new…
by - August 3, 2025 12:36 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Aug. 5) is set to remove parking meters in downtown Fort Smith. The board also is set to vote on a resolution…
by - July 31, 2025 11:39 am
The newly opened Alice L. Walton School of Medicine recently announced several new hires at the Bentonville-based campus. The school opened July 14 and welcomed its inaugural class of 48…
by - July 29, 2025 10:00 am
Robert Fuller was on his way to Japan when suddenly the plane he was in caught fire. No one was injured, but it caused his flight to land at 2…
by - July 28, 2025 5:52 pm
Eight former University of Arkansas student-athletes have been selected as members of the 2025 class of the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor, the university’s athletic department announced Monday…
by - July 28, 2025 4:37 pm
The six-story, 142-room boutique hotel The Compton in downtown Bentonville will be home to three food and beverage establishments, including steakhouse Sestina, bar The Eddy, and café Field Notes, according…
by - July 27, 2025 3:49 pm
Editor’s note: The Fort Smith Metro Daily News Executive Summary series is focused on looking under the title, so to speak, of a business, government, and non-profit executive in the…
by - July 23, 2025 2:17 pm
Traffic out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport is down in the first half of 2025, but the airport finished May and June with a more than 3% gain in…
by - July 23, 2025 10:19 am
Ryan Hauck joined Experience Fayetteville as CEO on Monday (July 21), the tourism marketing agency announced Wednesday (July 23). He replaces Molly Rawn, who left the city’s destination marketing organization…
by - July 22, 2025 5:53 pm
New students of NorthWest Arkansas Community College’s Bicycle Technician Program can receive scholarships for the program and free tool kits, according to a Tuesday (July 22) news release. Denver-based Morgridge…
by - July 21, 2025 11:56 am
Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax revenue between January and December 2024 was a record $26.661 million, up 4.77% compared with the $25.446 million in the same period of 2023. The December…
