by - December 28, 2021 4:46 pm
The U.S. Marshals Service continues to support the completion of the U.S. Marshals Museum following the arrest of U.S. Marshals Museum President and CEO Patrick Weeks on Dec. 21 on…
by - December 26, 2021 2:49 pm
Nick Olano, co-founder and CEO of Fayetteville-based startup American Hunt Inc., had struggled with the high cost to lease hunting spots while living in Louisiana and the lack of websites…
by - December 22, 2021 6:40 pm
U.S. Marshals Museum President and CEO Patrick Weeks was arrested Monday (Dec. 21) by the Fort Smith Police Department on a charge of aggravated assault with a firearm. He was…
by - December 20, 2021 10:39 am
Hospitality tax collections show the Arkansas tourism industry is rebounding from 2020 and will break 2019 tax revenue collections, but the sector still lags record job numbers and hotel tax…
by - December 19, 2021 4:10 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority Board of Directors agreed to a sale that will bring a Los Angeles-based film and television studio to Chaffee Crossing to support the movie industry…
by - December 16, 2021 7:53 am
Experience Fayetteville announced Wednesday (Dec. 15) that the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism (ADPHT) is now an official partner of the Walmart 2022 Cyclo-cross World Championships. The event…
by - December 15, 2021 4:48 pm
Rogers-based Beaty Capital Group, which owns and manages TempleLive in downtown Fort Smith, is back on track with a $60 million project in Cleveland and has hired Rob Thomas as…
by - December 15, 2021 2:02 pm
As the arts and entertainment industry emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, it has changed and begun to recover. Audiences have returned to venues, and area executives expect to build on…
by - December 14, 2021 1:06 pm
The Fort Smith Parks and Recreation Commission is planning to name the Riverfront Drive Sports Fields after Fort Smith artist John Bell, Jr., but is open to other suggestions for…
by - December 7, 2021 8:28 am
As a television journalist, Olivia Walton made a name for herself. As a teenager, she imagined a career in the arts. During her senior year of high school, while filling…
by - December 1, 2021 7:30 am
Bill Gatewood, the long-time director of the Old State House Museum, will retire on Dec. 31, 2021 after a 35-year career with the state and 29 years with the museum,…
by - November 29, 2021 6:39 pm
Fort Smith and Van Buren are on track to set records for hospitality tax revenue in 2021, just a year after – or less than a year based on vaccine…
by - November 28, 2021 9:58 am
Olivia Walton, the new board chair for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, is full of hints of what’s to come. Named in mid-November to the post, she takes…
by - November 28, 2021 9:50 am
Since being selected to serve as the 19th director of the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission earlier this year, Austin Booth has been wrestling with the agency’s biggest challenge: its…
by - November 22, 2021 5:30 pm
A Fort Smith resident has taken the lead as the No. 1 top new Airbnb host in Arkansas for 2021. Cathy O’Hern of Fort Smith entered into the Airbnb market…
by - November 22, 2021 2:27 pm
Paragould native Kenneth Flynn has spent more than 75 years of his life collecting seashells and other aquatic life from around the world. His collection, named the Flynn Collection, is…
by - November 19, 2021 3:50 pm
A first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution sold at a Sotheby’s auction Thursday (Nov. 18) for $43.2 million — more than double its $20 million high estimate and world auction…
by - November 18, 2021 5:29 pm
With Baptist Health-Fort Smith unwilling to sign a petition, the possibility of an assessment to fund operation, maintenance and repair and improvements within the Fort Smith Central Business District (CBID)…
by - November 17, 2021 10:25 am
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $20,482,208 to the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism to construct the final 13.4-mile section of the southeast Arkansas trail through its Rebuilding…
by - November 16, 2021 12:58 pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced Tuesday (Nov. 16) that Olivia Walton is the new chairperson of the museum’s board of directors. Since the Bentonville museum’s opening in November…
