The University of Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center and the Northwest Arkansas Council are partnering on a Small Business Emergency Assistance program to support small businesses and nonprofits in the region that have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. read more >
A constitutional amendment to make a half-cent sales tax permanent goes before Arkansas voters on Nov. 3. Those in favor of the amendment, which would dedicate the tax revenue to the state highway fund, are already out beating the bushes to drum up support. read more >
The partnership between the innovation platform Plug & Play Tech Center of Sunnyvale, California, and the Fortune 500 companies of northwest Arkansas is already paying off. read more >
The Northwest Arkansas Council announces a business initiative to prioritize support for the 2020 census. read more >
Business leaders partner with educators in devising a flexible, unique program. read more >
The Northwest Arkansas Council hired Jeannette Balleza Collins as entrepreneurial development director and Nate Green as communications director. read more >
Nelson Peacock, president and CEO of the Northwest Arkansas Council, says the area’s greatest need is talented workers to fill 10,000 jobs. read more >
An undercount could hurt all Arkansans in a couple of ways — first, by understating their political significance and leaving them underrepresented in Congress, and second, by preventing them from benefiting from all the taxpayer-supported programs to which they’re entitled. read more >
The Northwest Arkansas Council’s new FareFlightNWA program makes the argument to travelers that flying out of Northwest Arkansas Airport might not be as terrible financially as it would seem. read more >
Nelson Peacock is hopeful that the arrival of a global innovation company will help spur northwest Arkansas’ business ecosystem and solve some nagging logistical problems. read more >
Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville knows the goal that he and the Northwest Arkansas Council have set for the university’s research and development funding will be a tough nut. read more >
Another stretch of Interstate 49 may be closer to completion. Or closer to the money being found to pay for the work to bring the highway closer to completion. read more >
Springdale hopes to build on recent efforts to reinvigorate its downtown. read more >
Northwest Arkansas business executives and academic leaders say there is no longer any question that the area’s population is growing more diverse. read more >
A membership-only airline, Surf Air plans to begin service at Bentonville Municipal Airport within the month. read more >
Northwest Arkansas' strong employment doesn't yet pose a threat to its economic growth. That was one of the many positive messages delivered at the seventh annual State of Northwest Arkansas Region Report luncheon. read more >
The Northwest Arkansas Council named Nelson Peacock, a McCrory native and the senior vice president of government relations for the University of California system, as its CEO. read more >
