Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. School Grades Several public and charter schools in Fort Smith ...

Analysts at eMarketer and Salesforce believe holiday sales growth will be harder to achieve for most retailers. They predict ...

A report from data marketing firm PYMENTS Intelligence tracked the wallet share of U.S. consumer retail spending in the second quarter. Amazon reached 9.6% of U.S. spending, its highest ...

A 5% decline in the number of unemployed and a slight gain in nonfarm jobs in August helped push Arkansas’ jobless rate to 3.9%, below the 4.2% in August ...

With Razorback football program failure becoming an obvious concern debated with varying degrees of vigor in many breakfast diners statewide, a member of the University of Arkansas Board of ...

The annual Beatles at the Ridge music festival will be held Saturday (Sept. 19) in Walnut Ridge. The festival, which is free ...

Erik Dees, a partner at Fayetteville-based Milestone Leadership, recently released “Keeper of the Culture,” a new book that ...

Twenty-four more Arkansas school districts earned A or B letter grades in 2025-26 than earned those grades the previous year, ...

Most key Northwest Arkansas job sectors have posted double-digit job gains in the past five years, with jobs in the ...

The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Industries of Arkansas recently named 52 people to the Leadership ...

Every couple of weeks, my phone rings with the same conversation. An investor from Colorado, Southern California, or the New ...

An effort by a subsidiary of the Fort Smith Housing Authority to produce a mayoral scorecard ahead of the November 2026 general election was short-lived after it received criticism ...