by - March 17, 2015 1:39 pm
Officials with Parrot Island Waterpark announced Tuesday (March 17) the start of hiring 100-150 part-time employees for the aquatics facility now under construction at Ben Geren Regional Park. The almost…
by - March 16, 2015 7:50 pm
A House legislator facing questions in an adoption scandal resigned his committee leadership post Monday afternoon, while several education bills including two on workforce training sailed through the state Senate….
by - March 16, 2015 6:09 pm
United States Senator Tom Cotton last week wrote a letter to the Iranian Ayatollah, stating that the President’s on-going nuclear negotiations with the terrorist state are ill conceived and non-binding….
by - March 16, 2015 5:53 pm
The possibility of rising interest rates, easier loan requirements and rising rental costs are helping to nudge more first-time homebuyers into the market, a dynamic that is playing out in…
by - March 16, 2015 5:50 pm
Rising prices and a more than 9% gain in home sales is the emerging early trend in Benton and Washington counties. Agents sold 928 homes in the first two months…
by - March 16, 2015 5:25 pm
Rules providing a one-year permit and flexibility in the number of moves in that year were some of the preferred ideas supported by members of the Fort Smith Planning Commission…
by - March 16, 2015 2:40 pm
Central Arkansas will play host next month to a two-day, first-of-its-kind Arkansas Manufacturing Innovation Summit where companies across the state will be able to spotlight cutting edge manufacturing innovations and…
by - March 16, 2015 2:02 pm
Logistics giant J.B. Hunt Transport Services posted healthy revenue and profits in 2014 which translated to hefty bonuses for the company’s top executives, according to the company’s Proxy filing with…
by - March 15, 2015 11:44 pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has recently acquired Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/ White Flower No. 1, (1932, oil on canvas), which will debut in a focused exhibition, Georgia O’Keeffe:…
by - March 15, 2015 11:30 pm
Butterfield Trail Village recently opened a new aquatic center with pool, fitness and spa facilities, and a new assisted living cottage on its 44-acre campus in Northwest Arkansas. Butterfield is a retirement community in…
by - March 15, 2015 10:34 pm
It was a step back into the days of the Old Wild West on Saturday (March 14) evening, for guests of the U.S. Marshals Stampede, inaugural "Kickin' Up the Dust"…
by - March 15, 2015 11:03 am
After a high-profile week centered around a controversial letter to Iranian leaders authored by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas’ junior senator and a Republican, said he’s far from done with…
by - March 15, 2015 10:46 am
In a recent address for the U.S. Marshals Museums lecture series, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was quoted as saying “The Constitution means what it meant when our fathers…
by - March 15, 2015 10:44 am
Back in November there were hints, niggling little bits of rumor, that the world’s most famous painting of jimson weed (Datura stramonium) might be coming to Bentonville. And sure enough…
by - March 13, 2015 10:47 pm
Arkansas’ publicly traded concerns held their own this week as many U.S. stocks got caught in the broader market’s downdraft with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 falling for the…
by - March 13, 2015 4:14 pm
Fundraising for the U.S. Marshals Museum received a much-needed boost with Friday’s (March 13) news that First Bank Corp. added $500,000 to its donation and is 60% toward a goal…
by - March 12, 2015 8:52 pm
A new school safety bill was approved unanimously by a key House committee, while lawmakers debated everything from license plate readers to propane to concealed gun laws Thursday in Little…
by - March 12, 2015 8:32 pm
Weak commodity prices are causing oil and gas producers and related oilfield and drilling specialty firms to revisit their earlier announced 2015 capital plans, including a growing number of companies…
by - March 12, 2015 8:07 pm
What are the costs of a few sick turkeys in north Arkansas? A little more than $4.19 million if you are Tyson Foods Board Chairman John Tyson, and almost $50…
by - March 12, 2015 3:06 pm
The opening of a $16 million Peds Legwear plant in Hildebran, N.C., is the latest activity promoted by Wal-Mart as proof of its ongoing commitment to return manufacturing jobs to…
