The Nature Conservancy

Entergy Arkansas announced that it’s donating $660,000 to six nonprofits as part of its “Entergy Arkansas Bright Futures Campaign” to help build strong communities. Six separate grants in the amount […] read more >

There’s gold in the hills of the Maumelle Pinnacles, both in natural splendor and spending by nature lovers, and Arkansas is ready to seize it. read more >

Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale says it will work with cattle ranchers to create what it called the nation's largest beef transparency program. read more >

An eternal battle over hog waste and the Buffalo does no one any good, and the long-term cost could easily be more than the $6.2 million price of settling the dispute. read more >

Alter Trading Corp. of St. Louis purchased the Tenenbaum Recycling Group’s 71,000-SF complex at 4500 Bethany Road for $4.04 million and its 42,968-SF facility at 2601 Central Airport Road for $2.77 million. read more >

A bank branch in west Little Rock, a Faulkner County landfill, residential property in west Pulaski County, an office building in midtown Little Rock and undeveloped land in Maumelle form a five-piece set of multimillion-dollar real estate transactions. read more >

Utility land in west Little Rock tipped the scales at $3.1 million. Entergy Arkansas Inc. bought its 10.08-acre location at 12209 W. Markham St. from Newkirk Lirock Ltd. of New York. read more >

The Nature Conservancy, a Washington-based nonprofit with offices in Little Rock and Fayetteville, recently purchased 378 acres in Pulaski County in two separate transactions. read more >

Land was sold and donated, and a building was bought in the second half of October. read more >

Tyson Foods Inc. gives $500,000 to kickstart an initiative with The Nature Conservancy to develop conservation projects for rivers and streams in northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri. read more >

The number of $1 million-plus commercial real estate deals in Pulaski County didn’t increase significantly during 2014. But the same can’t be said for the dollar total of the transactions, which ballooned by a whopping 70 percent compared with 2013. read more >

A 201-room hotel and adjoining restaurant in east Little Rock tipped the scales at $6 million. Two Walgreens were sold for a combined $10.7 million. And the Village Shopping Center in Little Rock rang up a $3.04 million sale. read more >