UA says land sale to fund research
Mark Cochran, vice president of the University of Arkansas System's Agriculture Division, on Thursday defended the planned sale of a portion of its research st…
Mark Cochran, vice president of the University of Arkansas System's Agriculture Division, on Thursday defended the planned sale of a portion of its research st…
The FBI is looking into the University of Arkansas System's proposed $16.5 million sale of 6,300 acres at its research station in St. Francis County, a state s…
Two prominent downtown Little Rock properties -- the Hotel Frederica and the AT&T building, both on Capitol Avenue -- will be up for online auction Sept. 21-23…
The state Plant Board on Wednesday approved, without debate or discussion, a reduction in settlement offers sent to three farmers suspected of violating state …
Settlement offers for farmers who may have violated the state's ban on spraying dicamba have reached nearly $1.5 million at the same time three farmers have se…
Patents awarded to Arkansans
Koppers Inc. will spend at least $23 million in the next couple of years modernizing its 157-acre plant in North Little Rock, where some 1.5 million railroad c…
Most county fairgrounds in Arkansas are all but silent this year, with their midways clear of carnival rides and food trailers, their exhibition halls void of …
The composition of the state Plant Board -- with its longtime mix of members appointed by the governor and others by private agriculture groups -- will get the…
Settlement offers this spring and summer on fines for farmers believed by Plant Board staff members to have violated the state's ban on spraying dicamba in 201…
Murphy USA on Tuesday reported a profit of $168.9 million for the second quarter of 2020, shattering the $32.7 million profit reported for the same period a ye…
Customers of Dennis Bailey's check-cashing businesses in Fordyce have been hauled into hot-check court, forced to pay court fees they shouldn't have had to pay…
Murphy USA on Tuesday reported a profit of $168.9 million for the second quarter of 2020, shattering the $32.7-million profit reported for the same period a ye…
Patents awarded to Arkansans
A lawsuit filed Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court says the security breach of a new state computer program this spring led to identity theft of those se…
The state has disbursed more than $1.1 billion in federal unemployment aid to the jobless in just four months, including millions of dollars in weekly federal …
The state Division of Workforce Services said Wednesday that it has found an "uptick" in fraudulent unemployment claims but gave no details.
Bayer announced Wednesday that it will pay up to $400 million to settle claims that dicamba had damaged soybean and cotton crops in Arkansas and other states t…
Volunteers and staff with Audubon Arkansas will return to farm country this summer to search for possible dicamba damage to trees and other vegetation on publi…
Florida-based Superior Group of Companies will move its distribution operations from Georgia to Eudora, where it already employs about 200 people.
Patents awarded to Arkansans
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday night halted the sale of three in-crop dicamba formulations, a decision of little consequence in Arkansas, w…
The state Plant Board on Tuesday rejected efforts to set aside the state's current ban on in-crop use of dicamba and allow farmers to spray the herbicide deep …
Alumacraft Boat Co. in Arkadelphia will be shut down in June by its Canada-based owner, putting 90 people out of work and ending a 46-year history in the town.
Alumacraft Boat Co. in Arkadelphia will be shut down in June by its Canada-based owner, putting 90 people out of work and ending a 46-year history in the town.
The state Plant Board is seeking $592,000 from 18 farmers to settle claims that they violated the state's 2018 and 2019 seasonal bans on spraying dicamba, a he…
The Frederica Hotel, which has been closed since September for not paying state sales taxes, is in disrepair because of break-ins and vandalism, according to a…
Persistent rainfall has kept the state's largest commercial grower of organic vegetables out of the fields this spring, but his crop of organic sweet potatoes …
Undaunted by mixed results of last year's inaugural industrial hemp crop, Arkansas growers and processors are returning to hemp fields and greenhouses this yea…
USA Truck Inc., the publicly traded transportation and logistics company in Van Buren, on Thursday reported a loss of $2.55 million, or 30 cents per share, dur…
The Asian giant hornet -- aka the "murder hornet" -- isn't in Arkansas, where residents have confused it with other hornets that have been in the state for at …
McCain Mall and Park Plaza Mall, both located in Central Arkansas, have announced plans to reopen Friday.
Arkansas farmers, ranchers and others in a food chain disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic have received a few more details on agriculture aid approved last m…
Murphy USA on Friday reported a profit of $89.3 million for the first quarter of 2020, or $2.92 per share, exceeding analysts' expectations for an earnings per…
The nearly 500 workers at LM Wind Power's wind-blade manufacturing plant in Little Rock will lose their jobs as the company closes its operations because of de…
The Huckabees, who moved to Florida in 2010 and built a $3 million home on the coast, and the other property owners contended that the county's action in closi…
A federal court hearing Monday in a Florida lawsuit filed in part by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is closed to the public, according to media outlets in …
More than 2,300 employees at Baptist Health have been laid off temporarily or had their hours reduced because of a financial crunch brought on by the covid-19 …
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and his wife Janet are among 15 parties in a federal lawsuit claiming they can't use their "backyards" because of a county g…
A paper manufacturer in Ashdown said Monday it will idle 142 workers because of "unforeseeable business conditions" brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
A paper manufacturer in Ashdown said Monday it will idle 142 jobs because of “unforeseeable business conditions” brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Some 200 workers at Anthony Timberlands' pine mills in Malvern and Bearden will be laid off temporarily, in part because they prefer to receive unemployment ch…
Prospects for Arkansas farmers and spring planting this year don't look much better than last year, when a record 1.3 million acres went unplanted because of p…
Arkansas-based stocks on Tuesday ended their worst quarter since the recession of 2008-2009 and, like then, financial experts don't know when the bleeding will…
An undetermined number of people will lose their jobs at Baptist Health because of a financial crunch brought on by a focus on treating only the most serious i…
Pace Industries idled its operations in Harrison and Fayetteville this week, putting nearly 600 jobs on hold during the nation's coronavirus crisis.
Greg Hay, chairman of the state Plant Board, resigned this week, citing his employer's concerns of a "conflict of interest."
The state's trust fund for unemployment payments to Arkansans has about $840 million, its healthiest balance in years.
Arkansas' unemployment rate in January was unchanged from December, remaining at 3.5%, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
The state Plant Board on Tuesday approved a fee schedule to fund the state's industrial hemp program for this year and denied a petition to set a stricter cuto…