The facility is a long-time labor of love for U of A electrical engineering professor Alan Mantooth and was made possible by a $19 million grant from the National Science Foundation. read more >
The program is expected to bring as many as 1,500 people, counting military personnel and their families, to the River Valley. Officials estimate it could have a $1 billion annual economic impact on the region. read more >
Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken said the new mission could provide as much as $1 billion in economic activity. read more >
The state's GOP-dominated Legislature made keeping the congressional delegation totally Republican easier as it redrew district maps following the 2020 census. read more >
The state's GOP-dominated Legislature made keeping the congressional delegation totally Republican easier as it redrew district maps following the 2020 census. read more >
The 54-hole Walmart NW Arkansas Championship Presented by P&G has a $2.3 million total purse and will attract most of the top women professional golfers to Pinnacle Country Club. read more >
It’s no secret that U.S. Rep. Steve Womack is a longtime supporter and fan of the LPGA event in Rogers. read more >
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announces $3.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to eight Arkansas Economic Development District organizations. read more >
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., this week honored two late businessmen with Arkansas ties on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. read more >
President Trump is on the cusp of being impeached by the House, with a historic debate set Wednesday on charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress. read more >
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces an agreement on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Trump a win the same day that Democrats announced impeachment charges. read more >
The Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton in Arkansas abruptly dropped out of the race Tuesday, citing a family health concern, leaving Democrats with no one to contest the seat. read more >
The Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton has dropped out of the race. And Republican Rep. French Hill gets a Democratic challenger. read more >
Republican U.S. Rep. French Hill is trying to fend off a competitive bid by Democratic challenger Clarke Tucker in the election for the 2nd Congressional District. read more >
A push by Democrats to flip a Republican-held congressional seat that represents the Little Rock area and a state Supreme Court race that has drawn heavy spending by a conservative interest group have drawn the most attention in Arkansas' midterm election. read more >
Two months after planners gave up hopes of crossing Arkansas with a $2.5 billion wind-energy transmission line as doomed, the U.S. Department of Energy hammered a nail in the project's coffin Friday by ending its participation in the Plains & Eastern Clean Line. read more >
Fort Smith will receive an $8.5 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant to repair and rehabilitate three rail bridges that cross Clear Creek and the Arkansas River. read more >
Matei Andreoiu has joined Sparks Clinic in Fort Smith as a urologist. Dan Keniry has been named staff director of the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee under U.S. Rep. Steve Womack. read more >
A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Virginia on Wednesday, lawmakers said. read more >
After putting nearly nine years and more than $100 million of investors’ money into a $2.5 billion power transmission project across Oklahoma and Arkansas, the electric dream of Michael Skelly has shorted out. read more >
