by - March 22, 2012 9:53 am
The Arkansas Governor’s Quality Award (GQA) Program was ranked first in four of six categories nationally for 2011 by The Alliance for Performance Excellence. The GQA Program ranked first…
by - March 22, 2012 9:44 am
Art Farine, a 32-year city employee and director for Siloam Springs, said a fiber-to-the-premises network will help the city stay current. Fiber can carry so much bandwidth that systems aren’t…
by - March 21, 2012 7:47 pm
Travel and tourism spending in the U.S. during 2011 grew at 3.5%, the highest rate of growth for the industry in the past five years. Total tourism-related employment was up…
by - March 21, 2012 7:09 pm
21 Jump Street stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as two ne'er-do-well cops sent undercover to infiltrate an adolescent drug ring. There is plenty of ancillary action in 21 Jump…
by - March 21, 2012 6:55 pm
The long-awaited U.S. Marshals Commemorative Coin will soon be a reality, with up to $5 million in proceeds from the coin authorized to support a segment of work at the…
by - March 21, 2012 5:13 pm
ROGERS — When Lela Davidson first heard about Listen To Your Mother (LTYM), a national series of live readings in celebration of Mother’s Day, she knew she had to bring…
by - March 21, 2012 4:44 pm
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce/Associated Industries of Arkansas has joined a legal effort to challenge the controversial federal healthcare reform act, but the move is more about seeking an…
by - March 21, 2012 4:05 pm
BENTONVILLE — Arvest Bank announced the promotions of four people serving the bank’s Benton County customers in several capacities. Kurt Brungardt, Lindsay Reeves and Joy Hapeman have been promoted to…
by - March 21, 2012 4:01 pm
Steve Griffin has been promoted to executive vice president for Arvest Bank’s Fort Smith-River Valley operations. He previously worked as the loan manager for the Arvest Bank area. Griffin is…
by - March 21, 2012 7:25 am
The Sebastian County Fire Association (SCFA) came to the quorum court meeting Tuesday night (March 20) seeking help for its pager system. President Gary Lawrence told court members that “we’ve…
by - March 20, 2012 8:38 pm
Fort Smith city directors voted Tuesday night (Mar. 20) to authorize the offering of sales tax bonds that were approved by voters in last Tuesday’s (Mar. 13) special election. The…
by - March 20, 2012 6:28 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Tickets go on sale Friday (March 23) for a couple of music icons whose names are so well-known that they don’t even need the long names of the tours…
by - March 20, 2012 5:36 pm
BENTONVILLE – Arvest Bank announced Jason England joined Arvest Benton County as the new commercial banking manager and senior vice president in Bentonville. England has worked as the senior vice…
by - March 20, 2012 5:21 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — This week’s excessive rains have caused many of the area’s municipal storm drains to overflow into parking lots, streets, lawns and the like. What those drains take back with…
by - March 20, 2012 5:10 pm
Cox Communications and CenturyLink are just two companies who question the numbers used by Siloam Springs officials to encourage voters to approve the construction of a city-owned cable and Internet…
by - March 20, 2012 4:38 pm
There is an interesting footnote to today’s (Mar. 20) jobs announcement from Russellville, which is bringing 25 jobs to a company that services Arkansas Nuclear One. The press release from…
by - March 20, 2012 3:47 pm
Chicken The chicken processing margin averaged 2 cents a pound, 13-cents better than a year ago. Broiler egg sets were down 4.7% to 198 million eggs. Heads slaughtered declined 4.8%…
by - March 20, 2012 2:55 pm
When a hospital needs a nurse to step in immediately but briefly, Sorrel Teuscher answers the call. She is among more than 40 traveling nurses working in Arkansas medical facilities….
by - March 20, 2012 2:18 pm
Shareholders of J.B. Hunt Transport Services have plenty to celebrate with respect to record $257 million profits in 2011 and a favorable outlook from Wall Street analysts in 2012. The…
by - March 20, 2012 12:59 pm
For a generation of tech-savvy kids, the art of the interview has taken new meaning. The winners of a Northwest Arkansas student Civil War sesquicentennial podcast contest have been announced…
