by - August 31, 2015 2:11 pm
Food Network celebrity Ree Drummond, also known for her popular Pioneer Woman blog, is launching a new line of houseware products at Wal-Mart. The retailer announced the exclusive deal made…
by - August 31, 2015 2:00 pm
Former Arvest Bank President Dennis Smiley admitted in his guilty plea filed in federal court last week (Aug. 25) that he forged his father’s name in desperation and he falsified…
by - August 30, 2015 7:54 pm
“Wow, the water sure looks high.” My wife said this as we were visiting our hometown of St. Augustine, Fla, this summer. We were on Matanzas Bay, separated from the…
by - August 30, 2015 7:43 pm
Increasing the diesel tax to pay for highway maintenance and improvements is “something to be considered” because the trucking industry supports it, U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, said Friday. Interviewed…
by - August 30, 2015 7:20 pm
Maryl Koeth’s office is located inside the 100-year-old plus historic train station in downtown Van Buren. Koeth is a strikingly attractive, fashionably dressed, professional woman, and at first one might…
by - August 30, 2015 12:52 pm
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, is optimistic about Camden’s economic future and sustaining a veto of a disapproval resolution on the President’s Iran deal. Appearing Sunday on Talk Business…
by - August 27, 2015 9:59 pm
In a relaxed atmosphere before a business-friendly crowd at the State Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., shared his views Thursday afternoon on a wide-range of topics from…
by - August 27, 2015 9:44 pm
One could get whiplash watching the last few monthly Fort Smith sales tax revenue reports. The 1% street tax tally was up 11.6% in the May report, down 5.47% in…
by - August 27, 2015 8:50 pm
The Bret Bielema era at Arkansas has officially turned a corner. After enduring more rebuilding years than Pope County’s stretch of Interstate 40, the Razorbacks finally got off the schneid…
by - August 27, 2015 3:16 pm
A “future” school that could teach Fort Smith students how to build “Back To The Future” style hoverboards is in the works. That’s according to the recent edition of The…
by - August 27, 2015 2:03 pm
Holiday toy sale competitions among retailers don’t usually begin until early October, but Wal-Mart has announced a preemptive strike as it kicks off the 2015 Christmas shopping season. On Wednesday,…
by - August 27, 2015 1:04 pm
Just a heads up, but there will be a bank robbery on the Bentonville Square on Sept. 4. And some local officials may be accomplices. But it will all be…
by - August 27, 2015 12:04 pm
In the “second revision” of the nation’s real gross domestic product, or GDP, the federal report shows the U.S. economy advanced at a robust annual rate of 3.7% in the…
by - August 27, 2015 11:51 am
When Dr. Becky Paneitz walked away in 2013 from her 10 years as president of NorthWest Arkansas Community College, she had no long-term plans for what she would tackle next….
by - August 26, 2015 7:51 pm
Arkansas’ private option has reduced the state’s uninsured ranks, reduced uncompensated care, and strengthened the overall insurance marketplace serving other insurance recipients, a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation…
by - August 26, 2015 7:22 pm
Barefoot children frolicked among picnic blankets and lawn chairs at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks (BGO) Tuesday (Aug. 25) as more than 400 people gathered on an usually cool…
by - August 26, 2015 6:41 pm
Construction crews across Benton and Washington counties report a busy and productive July with combined residential and commercial permit values exceeding $101.278 million among the region’s four largest cities. This…
by - August 26, 2015 6:10 pm
Depending on who you talk to, new Sebastian County property assessments are either “way out of whack” or are good reflections of property value changes in the past five years…
by - August 26, 2015 4:21 pm
An Arkansas law moving up the deadline for independent candidates to present their petition signatures is constitutional because the state has a compelling interest in the earlier date, a district…
by - August 26, 2015 3:58 pm
A new multi-million dollar retail and office multi-story development on South Walton Boulevard could be a catalyst for redevelopment of businesses on both ends of the major thoroughfare through the…
