Civic, business, and education leaders in Northeast Arkansas have spent decades to develop tools and relationships that would ...

U.S. Steel broke ground Friday (Oct. 30) on a state-of-the-art direct reduced iron (DRI) production facility on its Big River ...

If you are an Arkansas business owner struggling to fill open positions, you are not alone. Even employers in high-demand ...

Joel Johnson decided to risk it all. In 1831 he sold his house and grist mill in Scott County, Kentucky and move hundreds of ...

Economic development is about more than bringing jobs to a community. It is about creating places where people want to live, ...

Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. ArcBest Dividend Fort Smith-based ArcBest recently announced a ...

Early voting in Arkansas continues to outpace the 2022 midterm election, with nearly 460,000 residents casting early or ...

The majority of Arkansas job gains continue to come from the central Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas metro areas. The two ...

The Arkansas agriculture sector is in crisis. Crop cash receipts are down 17.4% when compared to last year, according to the ...

Fort Smith’s share of the 1% Sebastian County tax was up almost 3% in the September report, with sales tax revenue in the ...

University of Arkansas alumnus Joe Hays and his wife, Pat, will give $2.5 million to the UA to support a scholarship, a ...

During an 18-hour firefight on the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993, U.S. Army Ranger Jeff Struecker found himself ...