The Arkansas Educational Television Network Commission briskly voted to approve a compromise with its fundraising arm Tuesday morning, ending months of feuding with the AETN Foundation. read more >
Express Rx opened its new headquarters in Little Rock last week and plans to create 24 upper-level management and support staff jobs. read more >
Arkansas’ Republican governor and the leaders of the state’s top lobbying groups have launched a campaign to keep a half-cent sales tax for road needs. read more >
The economy is the top concern for Arkansans, and most support gun licensing and background checks for gun purchases, according to the 21st annual Arkansas Poll released Wednesday by the University of Arkansas. read more >
HMS Mfg. Co. of Troy, Michigan, announced Wednesday that it will open a 550,000-SF injection molding facility at the Port of Little Rock, creating about 90 jobs over the next two years. read more >
Arkansas’ elected officials know President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is hurting the state. They just don’t appear to know exactly what to do about it. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson presents grants totaling more than $8.8 million to 78 Arkansas communities and counties. read more >
Nucor Corp. marks the opening of its $230 million specialty cold mill complex in Hickman, which has added 100 jobs to the steel giant's Arkansas payroll. read more >
DXC Technology of Tyson, Virgina, says it will hire 1,200 people over the next four years at its offices in the Meadows Technology Park in Conway, which would bring total employment there to 1,650. read more >
The Arkansas Board of Education strips the collective bargaining power of the Little Rock teachers' union, sparking fears of a strike even as the panel voted to return local control of the schools to a board that will be elected in November 2020. read more >
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott is proposing returning local control to the city's schools after a state plan to only grant limited authority drew complaints that the district could revert to a racially divided, "separate but equal" system. read more >
Arkansas educational TV chief Courtney Pledger, building her national profile even while facing a professional standoff back home, has been elected to the board of directors of PBS. read more >
Arkansas motorists will pay more to put fuel in their vehicles when new sales taxes go into effect to help maintain roads and highways. read more >
Will Gov. Asa Hutchinson's upcoming visit to China a wise use of resources, or is the governor perhaps captive to a nostalgia for a time when the Oval Office wasn’t occupied by a man devoted to protectionist policies? read more >
A plan to only grant Little Rock partial control of its schools is drawing complaints that the district may further segregate, and a push to end the local teachers union's bargaining power is stirring fears of more instability. read more >
Arkansas and private groups are putting aside $2 million for conservation and water quality grants within the Buffalo River watershed. read more >
Altus winery owner Audrey House will join the Arkansas Wine Producers Council after being chosen by Gov. Asa Hutchinson to replace Al Wiederkehr. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson's spokesman, J.R. Davis, will leave the post by the end of the month for a job in the private sector, and Katie Beck, the governor's director of state-federal relations, will take move into that job Oct. 1. read more >
Lockheed Martin has broken ground on the first part of a $142 million expansion at its southern Arkansas facility that is expected to create more than 300 new jobs. read more >
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Arkansas unveils its second-generation “Be Pro Be Proud” mobile workshop, which will begin touring thanks to sponsorships that include $200,000 from Union Pacific Railroad. read more >
