As the planet warms and storms, hurricanes, floods and wildfires intensify, backup power systems are an urgent new market in renewable energy. But take a lesson from windy, fiery California: Even if you have solar panels and sunshine, your home or business could stay dark. read more >
Springdale giant Tyson Foods expands line of non-meat proteins while pea and lentil crops boom. read more >
More than $8.5 million of new and pending utility improvement projects are underway in and around Helena-West Helena. Pieces of the infrastructure puzzle are moving into place to enhance local economic prospects as well as industrial recruitment. read more >
The United States uses a mix of energy sources. Fossil fuels remain the predominant source, though the importance of coal continues to decline. read more >
A statewide campaign is calling on Arkansas women to take control of their futures by changing how they think about retirement. read more >
Mutual accusations of money-grubbing provide common ground in the courtroom wrangling over the estate of Michael Lasiter, owner of RedStone Construction Group of Little Rock. read more >
A Washington County judge offered Levi Crowe a choice in 2016: a drug recovery program or jail. It was an easy choice, but Crowe had no idea that recovery would include working full time for no pay. read more >
Bill Sowell, a registered investment adviser in North Little Rock, embraces a legal obligation to put clients’ financial interests first. And he’s frustrated that the requirement doesn’t apply to everyone across the investing industry. read more >
In the second quarter of 2019, Americans held $107.13 trillion in total wealth, with sharp distinctions based on the wealth percentile in which they find themselves. read more >
A Little Rock firefighter recently scored a legal victory against the state’s largest hospital system over how it bills patients injured by the actions of others. read more >
Adam Grimmett’s reason for insuring Arkansas’ new medicinal marijuana industry is personal. An Afghan war veteran, he wants to help ex-service members. read more >
Christians tired of dealing with insurance companies and unwilling to pay fines for opting out of the health insurance mandate of the Affordable Care Act found a ready option in health care cost-sharing ministries. read more >
The number of people in the United States lacking health insurance rose in 2018, the first increase in a decade. read more >
Fears of economic hardship in the beef industry grew when a Tyson Foods Inc. processing plant just outside of Holcomb, Kansas, burst into flames on the evening of Aug. 9. read more >
The Arkansas Discovery Farms Program is giving farmers data to help them farm sustainably, which, in turn, increases profitability, participating farmers and other state agriculture experts say. read more >
Blake Evans, the last CEO of Peterson Farms before selling all broiler operations to Simmons Foods Inc. of Siloam Springs in 2008, has hitched the family legacy to a new partnership: a startup headed by a co-founder of the meal-order service Blue Apron. read more >
The U.S.-China trade war is being fought in the forests and mill towns of Arkansas as tariffs take their toll on the hardwood lumber industry. So far, state lumbermen say, they’ve been able to absorb most of the losses, but a day of reckoning is coming. read more >
A couple who farmed in Monroe County allegedly tried to shield assets from creditors before filing a multimillion-dollar bankruptcy, according to a lawsuit filed last month by a bankruptcy trustee. read more >
Six months after a rain-drenched grand opening, Dragon Woodland is on the brink of boosting the output of its Helena-West Helena sawmill facility. read more >
The value of farm real estate in Arkansas rose 5.1% this year compared with 2018, to $3,320 per acre, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. read more >
