Hernando de Soto Bridge

Lorie Tudor retires Jan. 10 as ARDOT's first female director, marking a journey from clerk typist to leader, with a legacy of service and resilience. read more >

See highlights from Arkansas Business from 2020 until now. read more >

The windfall is expected to provide $3.6 billion for Arkansas roads and $278 million for bridge repair and replacement. read more >

A weld fracture initially was not visible by conventional inspection and was not caught by an ultrasonic inspection in 1982. read more >

The three-and-a-half-month closing of the Hernando de Soto Bridge this year was costly for Southland Casino Racing in West Memphis, just 8 miles from the span that crosses the Mississippi River. read more >

The foundation of W&W/AFCO Steel’s Arkansas division is a 112-year track record of pre-engineered and custom fabrication. read more >

Things are going well for the state’s publicly traded transportation companies, and not just because the Interstate 40 bridge spanning the Mississippi River between Memphis and West Memphis finally reopened. read more >

No official has given a hard date for when the six-lane Interstate 40 bridge across the Mississippi River will reopen for traffic, but it is beginning to look like the end of July is a good bet. read more >

West Memphis Mayor Marco McClendon says his town of approximately 25,000 has “probably” lost about $1.5 million in tax revenue. read more >

For reasons that I cannot grasp, a depressing majority of Arkansans over age 16 — two out of three — are still not fully vaccinated against the disease that has killed almost 6,000 of our neighbors. read more >

Steve Frisbee and Michael Hill, engineers with ArDOT, say the fix of the I-40 bridge at Memphis will be a long-term repair. read more >

The shutdown of the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River and the subsequent logistical nightmare are shining a light on an age-old problem. America’s infrastructure is old. read more >

Arkansas inspects its bridges at least once every two years — and more frequently for bridges that have earned a structurally deficient label — and Mike Hill insists the term sounds worse than it is. read more >