Feds Spread $1B for Tree Plantings to Reduce Extreme Heat
by Associated Press – 1 week ago
The tree plantings efforts will be focused on marginalized areas in all 50 states.
The tree plantings efforts will be focused on marginalized areas in all 50 states.
Additionally, Tyson said it's donating 2.5 million pounds of protein.
Members' observations help ensure conditions at smaller independent businesses are represented in monetary policy deliberations in Washington.
As river levels drop, the cargo rate from St. Louis southward has climbed to 77% above the three-year average. read more >
It's the first increase since October. Meanwhile, Arkansas' labor force participation rate was unchanged. read more >
Last year, the Division of Higher Education and the Education Department's Research & Technology team relocated to the Main Street Mall from leased quarters at 423 Main St. read more >
Community leaders along the Mississippi River worried that dry southwestern states will someday try to take the river's water may soon take their first step toward blocking such a diversion. read more >
The proposal would reform the H-2A visa program, under which hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mostly from Mexico, take on seasonal jobs in the U.S. agriculture industry. read more >
Our annual list of engaging young leaders who are doing great things for Arkansas' people and economy. read more >
He's leaving to become the CEO of fashion apparel retailer Express Inc. read more >
The partnership is scheduled to begin this week with one truck, a Tyson Foods spokesperson said. Three additional trucks will go into operation over the next few months. read more >
He's the vice president of I.F. Anderson Farms Inc. in Lonoke. read more >
The 1.21-acre commercial site in west Little Rock was purchased by Foxden Capital LLC, led by Todd and Amanda Denton. read more >
The cuts left 59 farmers left with unrenewed contracts with Tyson Foods Inc. after it announced multiple plant closures this year. read more >
An awards ceremony will be held Nov. 2 at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock read more >
Much of the world's population is aging, and older people are less likely to keep working. Those trends could act as supply shocks, similar to the shortages of goods and labor that accelerated inflation during the rebound from the pandemic recession. read more >
A historic heat wave that began blasting the Southwest and other parts of the country this summer is shining a spotlight on one of the harshest, yet least-addressed effects of U.S. climate change. read more >
Madison Dawson, Jordan Gray, Ashley Moore and Jacob Turbyfill have been hired by CJRW of Little Rock. read more >
Booneville and Nashville, Arkansas, have some shiny new economic drivers: solar arrays built by Entegrity of Little Rock, now owned wholly by Nabholz Construction Corp. read more >
Commercial expansion and transportation-related investment at the Helena Port Industrial Park have sparked millions of dollars of infrastructure construction and capital improvements. read more >
The executive order calls for the Arkansas Department of Agriculture and its Natural Resources Division to update a water plan that hasn't been assessed in almost a decade. read more >
Well-treated chickens lay the best eggs, CEO Alex Worley believes, and his premium free-range brand stakes its business on it. And he's not above a little crowing about how business is going. read more >
Cunningham became state forester in June, directing the Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Forestry Division. read more >
This week's trio of million-dollar construction deals also features a youth shelter and factory expansion. read more >
Once little more than a nuisance in loblolly pines, the blight has become recurrent enough that some trees are damaged or killed by disease. read more >
Partners Jerry Lee Bogard and Rebecca Winemiller purchased 12,500 acres in hopes of selling sustainability credits. However, the credits never sold, and Bogard and Winemiller are now involved in a lawsuit over their business. read more >
Concern about the aging levees have waned since the floods, but experts say there's potential for a disaster if not maintained. read more >
Geordie Sanborn and Levi Price were named general managers of the new "centers for excellence." read more >
The report by Reuters, which cites three unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter, said that Tyson has hired Goldman Sachs to advise on the sale. read more >
Niemann follows Matthew Modiak, the founder of the chicken and poultry breeding company. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale reports a loss of $417 million in its fiscal third quarter. read more >
