by - May 28, 2012 6:21 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Through the month of June, faculty in the University of Arkansas art department will be displaying their work on campus in the Fine Arts Center. It represents is a…
by - May 28, 2012 6:07 pm
Thousands of shareholders and Walmart employees from the four corners of the globe will descend on Bentonville this week to celebrate the retail giant’s golden anniversary and annual meeting at…
by - May 28, 2012 10:53 am
Ah, summer. Memorial Day often marks the start of longer days, vacations, relaxed schedules and sun-kissed skin. The latter may more accurately be described as a “pre-cancerous glow,” according to…
by - May 28, 2012 10:49 am
U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Prescott, used his Memorial Day to renew a call for passage of legislation he claims “will avoid drastic cuts” within the U.S. Postal Service. Ross, a…
by - May 28, 2012 10:22 am
If proponents of a higher severance tax gather enough signatures, that measure may be presented to Arkansas voters on the November background. The severance tax proposal, if approved, will raise…
by - May 27, 2012 1:52 pm
MULBERRY MOUNTAIN — They know that when they build the city, people will come. That’s what the Wakarusa Music Festival amounts to: a temporary, fully functioning village of about 20,000…
by - May 26, 2012 7:26 pm
FORT SMITH — Into the Territory, a bronze statue of U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves, was a sight to behold in the late springtime sun as the sculpture was unveiled…
by - May 25, 2012 6:36 pm
BENTONVILLE – The Arkansas Attorney General’s Office on Friday (May 25) issued an opinion regarding the election of board trustees for NorthWest Arkansas Community College and the new establishment of…
by - May 25, 2012 4:41 pm
BLOOMBERG — For the latest sign of a U.S. housing rebound, Toll Brothers Inc. Chief Executive Officer Douglas Yearley points to Hoboken, New Jersey: A couple torn between two condos…
by - May 25, 2012 2:19 pm
John “Jack” Phillips IV of Walnut Ridge has been named its new coordinator of student recruitment for the Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus. A graduate of the University of Central Arkansas,…
by - May 25, 2012 12:02 pm
Tyson Foods confirmed an ammonia leak in Madison, Neb. forced a plant evacuation and sent 40 workers to the hospital Thursday evening, May 24. "We're investigating the cause of an…
by - May 25, 2012 6:47 am
FORT SMITH — When you find local musicians and owners of other night clubs in the crowd, you know it’s going to be a good show. Hayes Carll played to…
by - May 24, 2012 10:07 pm
BLOOMBERG — Soon after investment bank Morgan Keegan Inc. gave $1,000 to a committee backing voter passage of a bond authorization for Rogers, Ark., in September, the bank earned $502,000…
by - May 24, 2012 9:35 pm
BLOOMBERG — Companies placed fewer orders for computers, machinery and other capital equipment in April for a second month, indicating manufacturing in the U.S. is cooling. Bookings for non-military goods…
by - May 24, 2012 8:10 pm
Bentonville-based America's Car-Mart continues to outperform Wall Street expectations posting double-digit net income growth in its fourth quarter and fiscal 2012, which ended April 30. The buy here, pay here…
by - May 24, 2012 6:45 pm
This week’s adventure takes us back to my new found love, the pupusa. This time around we eat at a place that has been every kind of eatery imaginable, but…
by - May 24, 2012 6:00 pm
Nearly three years after Stephens Media and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Inc. merged operations in Northwest Arkansas, the union has yet to achieve the expected financial security. The joint venture, Northwest…
by - May 24, 2012 5:31 pm
Commissioners of the Central Business Improvement District (CBID) know they’re in for a fight for the affections of soccer and volleyball groups in the Fort Smith region, but it’s a…
by - May 24, 2012 4:58 pm
The announcement that tech giant Hewlett-Packard will lay off 27,000 workers worldwide sent reverberations through Arkansas economic circles, particularly in Conway where the company opened a 1,000 employee, $28 million…
by - May 24, 2012 4:40 pm
Rheem Manufacturing laid off 16 salaried jobs at its Fort Smith plant and a distribution center in Lewisville, Texas, on Thursday (May 24), but a company official says the move…
