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."
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, citing progress in the fight against the novel coronavirus, changes COVID-19 directives to "guidelines" and puts a possible end date on the statewide mask mandate. read more >
Arkansas Business energy reporter and Assistant Editor Kyle Massey talks to Lance Turner about how Arkansas avoided the catastrophic power failures that have dogged Texas amid historic winter weather. read more >
Dillard's Inc. of Little Rock reports fourth-quarter net income of $67 million, down slightly from the same quarter last year, but same-store sales declined 17%. read more >
Owens Corning of Toledo, Ohio, will build a 550,000-SF manufacturing facility on 56 acres adjacent to its current property in Fort Smith. read more >
The University of Arkansas signs a deal to bring two more football games to War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, including a first-ever game against Arkansas State University. read more >
U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Arkansas, joined state economic development leaders and executives of Welspun Tubular LLC of Little Rock on Friday, aiming to raise pressure on the Biden administration for revoking the federal permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. read more >
SGL Carbon of Wiesbaden, Germany, says it will expand its operations in Arkadelphia, investing $4.5 million at its existing facility and hiring 35 full-time employees within three years. read more >
Arkansas Business' Lance Turner talks to Stuart Jackson, a partner on the Labor & Employment Team at the Wright Lindsey Jennings law firm in Little Rock, about whether employers can require employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine read more >
A state Senate committee approves a bill that would allow liquor stores to deliver alcohol to customers. read more >
Mars Petcare of Franklin, Tennessee, says it will expand its operation in Fort Smith, investing $145 million and adding 120 jobs. read more >
