Getting it straight
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr.'s plan for revenue from a proposed increase in the city sales tax rate would allocate $11,775,000 per year toward public infr…
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr.'s plan for revenue from a proposed increase in the city sales tax rate would allocate $11,775,000 per year toward public infr…
FAYETTEVILLE -- An Adair County, Okla., deputy was arrested Friday in connection with a shooting earlier this month near Lincoln.
U.K. celebrates Falklands mine cleanup
m Stressed out while working at a bank in New Zealand, Junelle Kunin began searching for music paired with teachings from the Dalai Lama to calm herself down a…
Since taking over as the state's agriculture secretary in March, Wes Ward has devoted much of his time to looking for ways to expand foreign markets for Arkans…
Arkansas needs to do what it can to position itself to export goods such as rice and poultry to Cuba as Congress debates whether to end a 50-year-old trade emb…
A contractor, material supplier and the design firm that worked on the Main Street Lofts project in downtown Little Rock have filed multiple liens seeking more…
Mikel Durham has been named to the Tyson Foods board of directors.
Metova Inc., the Tennessee-based mobile application software development company that opened an office in Conway in January, said Thursday that faster than exp…
Worries about low-commodity prices last fall combined with a wet start to 2015 took a toll on Arkansas’ wheat crop just a year after farmers set a record for a…
Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford wants farmers to be able to store as much as 10,000 gallons of fuel above ground before being required to comply with a fede…
U.S. rice farmers, processors and merchants are calling on federal trade negotiators to cut the final deal needed to allow U.S.-grown rice to be sold in China.
Nearly half the counties named in letters from Gov. Asa Hutchinson seeking help for farmers with flooded fields and lost crops failed to make the cut when fede…
Siloam Springs Regional Hospital has named Patrick Kerrwood its new chief executive officer. He starts July 13.
Wet weather in May and June combined with uncertain commodity prices helped push Arkansas farmers away from planting cotton and corn, but the same two factors …
Arkansas is among the states listed as having the highest concentrations of jobs in industries that produce bioproducts -- goods made with plant-based chemical…
The state Plant Board has released a new set of draft rules intended to regulate grain dealers in Arkansas to create a clear paper trail for agency auditors to…
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson sent a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday requesting that 37 counties be declared agricultural disaster a…
As floodwaters recede, farmers in the Arkansas River Valley must wait to see if their fields will dry out enough for them to plant or replant crops as the win…
A Pulaski County circuit judge Monday issued a bench warrant for John M. Rogers for not responding to an order to produce discovery requests and provide a list…
Applications for new grain dealer licenses are starting to flow into the state Plant Board as the agency continues its effort to finalize the record-keeping ru…
Flooding caused by long periods of rain in April and May has made it impossible for some Arkansas River valley farmers to get crops into the ground or to compl…
Bruce Holland was surprised by one thing when avian influenza struck in Arkansas earlier this year: Backyard flocks seemed to have escaped the "bird flu" virus…
A growing number of Arkansas row crop farmers are taking a fresh look at conventional varieties of corn and soybeans rather than genetically modified seeds abl…
A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday granted a motion to liquidate the assets of Turner Grain Merchandising Inc. rather than have a receiver attempt to restr…
The state Plant Board on Wednesday approved an emergency rule needed to begin licensing the people and companies who buy and sell grain in the state, but delay…
The state Plant Board on Wednesday will consider rules needed to issue licenses to anyone who buys and sells grain in Arkansas under a new state law passed in …
Arkansas' catfish farmers are seeing higher prices and lower feed costs this spring, giving producers hope that years of industry declines are nearing an end.
An FBI investigator cautioned the Arkansas Agriculture Board on Wednesday that the state's agriculture industry needs to do more to protect proprietary trade s…
A Los Angeles-based animal welfare group Tuesday called on federal agriculture officials to require that rabbits get the same humane slaughter rules used for c…
Keith Rose of Rose Aircraft Services Inc. in Mena estimates that an outdated state law that required nonresident aircraft owners to pay sales taxes if they tra…
A wet spring is once again slowing Arkansas' planting season, with row-crop farmers taking advantage of every dry opportunity to hit the fields.
To Carl Brothers of Stuttgart-based Riceland Foods Inc., Cuba is perfectly situated to take advantage of U.S.-grown rice rather than having it shipped thousand…
Cuba would be able to use credit to buy U.S. agricultural products such as rice and chicken under legislation introduced Wednesday by U.S. Sens. John Boozman, …
Arkansas' business leaders are beginning to sort out what role the private sector will play in future economic development after Gov. Asa Hutchinson called on …
Two years of lower commodity prices, combined with uncertainties about new federal crop insurance programs, are making 2015 a tough year for row crop farmers t…
Small companies such as Power Technology Inc., an Arkansas-based maker of lasers used in analytical devices, often need help when it comes to entering new expo…
Arkansas businesses interested in exporting their products should look to growing energy, transportation and telecommunication needs of developing countries, t…
Arkansas' soybean acreage is expected to rise by 6 percent to 3.45 million acres in 2015 as row-crop farmers work to respond to ever-changing commodity prices.
Arkansas row crop farmers are likely to add grain sorghum acreage this spring as they try to deal with harvest-time price shifts for other commodities includin…
A trade delegation from the Czech Republic learned Thursday that it has things in common with Arkansas businesses when it comes to export markets: complex pape…
The Arkansas Plant Board is scrambling to adopt rules needed to implement a new state law requiring some businesses or people who buy or sell grain to obtain a…
Wesley Ward of Lake City was set to become Arkansas' third agriculture secretary after Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed paperwork confirming Ward in the post Friday.
Letters warning thousands of Arkansans to be on the lookout for identity or credit theft scams, the result of a data breach at insurer Anthem Inc., are now arr…
Wesley Ward of Lake City got a recommendation Tuesday from the state Agriculture Board's nominating committee to become Arkansas' next agriculture secretary.
Cotton acreage is expected to shrink again in Arkansas in 2015, possibly by as much as 40 percent to around 200,000 acres.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson named attorney Wesley Ward of Lake City as his preference to become the state's third agriculture secretary, replacing Butch Calhoun, who l…
Fly Arkansas LLC, an aviation services company based in Mountain Home, is poised to lease nearly 56,000 square feet of space in the 406,000-square-foot propert…
Arkansas farmers are taking advantage of an extended deadline to update yield histories and establish base acreage for their crops as new crop-loss rules set b…
The trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court wants Turner Grain Merchandising Inc., the troubled Brinkley-based grain dealer, to liquidate its assets, rather than…