by - January 6, 2015 9:54 pm
Arvest Bank has expanded the territories of Andy Smith and Asa Cottrell. Smith is the regional investment officer for Arvest Asset Management in the Fort Smith, River Valley and Eastern…
by - January 6, 2015 9:46 pm
Unless you are involved in some criminal activity, January is a good time for a business to review its document retention policy. A well designed document retention policy that is…
by - January 6, 2015 8:56 pm
Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson and soon-to-be First Lady Susan Hutchinson held their first two pre-inauguration events in their “home” regions of Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith, with the Gov.-elect using the…
by - January 6, 2015 7:46 pm
A new session of Congress started Tuesday, as two new congressmen and a new senator made history as an all-Republican Arkansas delegation took office. The state’s congressional delegation – U.S….
by - January 6, 2015 5:29 pm
Van Buren and other wholesale water customers of the Fort Smith water system will not see their rates change to help pay for the estimated $480 million Fort Smith will…
by - January 6, 2015 3:50 pm
Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson made plenty of news in a pre-session Q&A with reporters at the state capitol on Tuesday (Jan. 6). Saying he wanted a “quick start” to his legislative…
by - January 6, 2015 3:26 pm
Early reports suggest retail efforts to combine e-commerce orders with in-store pickup have yet to create systems to best capture what could be a lucrative and competitive edge in the…
by - January 6, 2015 9:02 am
Bank of the Ozarks has been named the top performing bank in the nation by Bank Director magazine in the industry publication’s 2014 performance scorecard results. It is the second…
by - January 6, 2015 6:47 am
Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson announced Wendy Kelley as the new director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC). Kelley is the chief deputy director of ADC, a position she has held…
by - January 5, 2015 9:56 pm
There’s an old joke about a man with a leaky roof. When it rained, he said he couldn’t fix the holes because it was raining. When it wasn’t raining he’d…
by - January 5, 2015 9:49 pm
The City Wire has changed the look of its popular daily e-mail blast that goes to more than 9,000 people in the Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas areas, and will…
by - January 5, 2015 9:04 pm
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that the agreement with the city of Fort Smith will over the next 12 years cost $255 million “plus the cost of routine…
by - January 5, 2015 5:40 pm
Arkansas tax collections for the first half of the fiscal year are 2.6% above the same period last year, but December collections were up just 1.7% because of income tax…
by - January 5, 2015 5:12 pm
Restaurants and food service venues expect sales to grow by a modest 1% this year, while they wrestle with higher food inflation and appeasing value-seeking consumers, according to the NPD…
by - January 5, 2015 4:11 pm
The trucking industry will have to continue randomly testing at least 50% of its drivers for drug and alcohol in 2015, according to a decision by the Federal Motor Carrier…
by - January 5, 2015 3:54 pm
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be in Fort Smith on Feb. 26 to speak at the first of three Winthrop Paul Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Series that are focused…
by - January 5, 2015 3:00 pm
Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC announced Monday (Jan. 5) that it is consolidating its five northwest Arkansas daily newspapers into a single regional newspaper, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. As a result…
by - January 5, 2015 2:35 pm
Efforts by Fort Smith-based ArcBest to grow its ABF Logistics division took a small step forward with the $5.17 million purchase of Oklahoma City-based Smart Lines Transportation. With annual revenue…
by - January 5, 2015 9:48 am
• Nestle Waters divests ice cream business in Mexico Wal-Mart supplier Nestle Waters recently announced the $68 million sale of its ice cream business in Mexico to Grupo Herdez. The…
by - January 5, 2015 8:59 am
CBRE Group Inc. has acquired CBRE Oklahoma, a commercial real estate services firm that has served as CBRE’s affiliate in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Northwest Arkansas since 1999. David Erstine…
