by - April 25, 2012 12:01 am
In one month thousands of Walmart shareholders, international delegates and top media representatives will descend on Northwest Arkansas for the retail giant’s annual shareholder meeting and week-long activities. The spotlight…
by - April 24, 2012 10:30 pm
Following a 29.17% decline in revenue from 2010 to 2011, things are finally looking up for the Fort Smith Convention Center. Through the first quarter of 2012, the Convention Center,…
by - April 24, 2012 8:42 pm
The City of Fort Smith Board of Directors continues to wrestle with whether to bring the remaining 3,394 households that are part of the Automated Refuse Collection Program (ARCP) expansion…
by - April 24, 2012 6:53 pm
Time was ticking down for Decatur State Bank to raise approximately $12 million in needed capital or marry a suitor to shore up the bank’s wobbly balance sheets resulting from…
by - April 24, 2012 6:43 pm
Before Levon Helm became a music legend and film star, he lived so far out in the Phillips County, Ark., hinterlands that he and his cousin Billy Helms had to…
by - April 24, 2012 6:24 pm
One might expect to find Texas musician Hayes Carll cramped in the corner of a bar with sawdust floors, lit only by the dim of the beer signs’ light. He’d…
by - April 24, 2012 3:47 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Tucked back in a south Fayetteville strip mall anchored by an O’Reilly Auto Parts store, LifeSource International is helping thousands each year, with — literally — anything they need….
by - April 24, 2012 2:38 pm
Fort Smith’s Ward 3 City Director position is not without a candidate. Alex Cardenas, a small business owner and native of east Oklahoma, has announced he will seek what will…
by - April 24, 2012 2:16 pm
Increases continued for tonnage hauled by the U.S. trucking industry during the first quarter of 2012, but it was slower than the pace seen during 2011. The American Trucking Associations’…
by - April 24, 2012 1:45 pm
Deltic Timber squeaked out a small first quarter profit of $97,000 despite a tough, but improving, real estate environment. The El Dorado-based real estate and timber group posted the first…
by - April 24, 2012 10:47 am
As a kid and young adult, Grant Tennille lived in a lot of different places, but for the better part of the last decade, he's called Arkansas home. Tennille, 43,…
by - April 24, 2012 7:11 am
The debate over the City of Fort Smith’s Automated Refuse Collection Program (ARCP) isn’t over. Not by a long shot. Baridi Nkokheli, Director of the Fort Smith Department of Sanitation…
by - April 23, 2012 10:07 pm
First quarter 2012 net income of $37.69 million for Health Management Systems fell below the $55.524 million earned in the 2011 period. Naples, Fla.-based HMA, the parent company of Sparks…
by - April 23, 2012 9:40 pm
HARRISON — If beauty captures the attention, personality captures the heart. Interior designer John Phifer Marrs is blessed with the talent to envision and transform spaces into works of art. He’s…
by - April 23, 2012 9:37 pm
When the news broke this afternoon that Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long had hired Bobby Petrino’s replacement, the initial reaction I had was, “What?!?!” People who know me know how…
by - April 23, 2012 9:29 pm
Tupelo, Miss.-based BancorpSouth announced first-quarter net income of $22.9 million, a wide swing from a $500,000 loss during the first quarter of 2011. The bank said the earnings were boosted…
by - April 23, 2012 7:24 pm
Less than two weeks after Head Razorback Football Coach Bobby Petrino was fired for lying to a lot of people about a lot of things, the University of Arkansas has…
by - April 23, 2012 6:35 pm
The future of the Lavaca Slackwater Harbor project and tax issues were the only points of contention for Rep. Denny Altes, R-Fort Smith, and Mat Pitsch at Monday’s (April 23)…
by - April 23, 2012 6:27 pm
FORT SMITH — Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news: The Fort Smith Symphony rocked the house Saturday (April 21) at Arkansas Best Corp. Performing Arts Center. The History of…
by - April 23, 2012 6:21 pm
Salvatore Salamone was in and is now out before he was ever officially in. The Ward 3 Fort Smith City Director post is now without an announced candidate less than…
