Lance Turner has been with Arkansas Business since 1999 and has been Interactive Editor since 2000. Turner oversees content for ABPG sites, including ArkansasBusiness.com, where he edits the Daily Report enewsletter.
He appears regularly on CBS affiliate KTHV-TV, Channel 11, providing business news reports on "Today's THV This Morning." He is also a panelist on AETN's weekly public affairs program, "Arkansas Week."
People paying close attention to the COVID-19 pandemic in Arkansas have likely encountered ArkansasCOVID.com, a website founded and edited by Misty Orpin of Springdale that is closely tracking data tied to the outbreak. read more >
The former Jonesboro accountant who has a $9 million civil judgment against him for embezzling money and pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud is sentenced to 60 months in federal prison read more >
Big River Steel of Osceola enters an agreement with Koch Metallics LLC under which Koch will act as the exclusive agent to Big River Steel for metallics procurement. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale says that it is cooperating with the U.S. Department of Justice in an investigation into allegations of price-fixing. read more >
Pace Industries LLC of Fayetteville emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and completes its financial restructuring plan. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale says it will conduct facility-wide testing for COVID-19 at its processing facilities and other operations in Benton and Washington counties. read more >
An aging unemployment system and a desire to get money to unemployed people quickly contributed to problems with the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance rollout in Arkansas, DWS leaders say. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose from 5 percent in March to 10.2 percent in April, the state Department of Workforce Services reports. read more >
CenterPoint Energy buys the former Molex facility at 101 Bringler Drive in Maumelle for $2.5 million, real estate agents for the seller said Thursday. read more >
Michael Pakko, chief economist and state economic forecaster at the Arkansas Economic Development Institute at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, talks about the state of Arkansas' economy amid COVID-19. read more >
