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As Arkansas kicks off its back-to-school shopping season, retailers are hoping that rising inflation does not hurt one of their busiest and most profitable periods.
As extreme hot weather presents special challenges across the region, utility and grid operators are closely monitoring the power grid and recent demand spike to ensure local residents and businesses stay cool.
With about a month left before the 2022 vacation season ends, Arkansas and other U.S. tourists seeking a last-minute respite before Labor Day are hoping they won’t face the air travel disruptions that pushed pandemic weary travelers to the brink.
The Little Rock Trojans and University of Arkansas at Little Rock are among the newest members of the Ohio Valley Conference. The team officially joined the conference on July 1, along with Lindenwood and Southern Indiana.
It’s been a while since Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Courtney Hudson was a nervous, first-year attorney but she remembers well what it felt like when the law stopped being of the classroom variety and started affecting real people in real courtrooms.
Halfway through 2022 with the Fourth of July holiday on the horizon, consumers and small business owners in Arkansas and Main Street America are still trying to catch their breath amid the ongoing pandemic.
As gas prices and inflation continue to soar, President Joe Biden on Wednesday, June 22, called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax through September, the traditional end of the nation’s vacation season.
With America experiencing an unprecedented increase in cyberattacks and malicious cyber activity, internet safety is becoming more important every day. In 2021, a record number of more than 847,000 complaints of cybercrime were reported to the FBI by the public, with potential losses exceeding $6.9 billion, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report from 2021.
Rising inflation and interest rates, along with the continued effects of the pandemic and global instability, resulted in 63% of U.S. banks reporting a year-over-year decline in quarterly net income, according to the highly watched first quarter banking profile from the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Erin Hohnbaum and Natalie Ghidotti are the embodiment of “been there, done that,” when it comes to launching and growing one’s own business. Now, the two Little Rock entrepreneurs have partnered on a new co working space, The Nest, specifically designed to give other women the environment and support they need to do the same.

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While driving down Hwy. 9, I ran up on this old church.
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I love visiting old cemeteries. The messages on the headstones are so beautifully written and the time-worn, moss-covered Angels and other sculptures are extraordinary pieces of artwork.
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Heifer International is a nonprofit working to eradicate poverty and hunger through sustainable, values-based holistic community development.
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Boxley Valley is full of vintage farms. I photographed this one as the fall colors were setting in.
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While exploring rural Arkansas early one morning, I ran upon Saint Paul’s Church in Pickens Township, Dumas.

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BUDGET BUSTER: INFLATION WEIGHS ON FAMILY SPENDING

August 8-14, 2022

As Arkansas kicks off its back-to-school shopping season, retailers are hoping that rising inflation does not hurt one of their busiest and most profitable periods.

Summertime Sizzler Extreme heat conditions stressing Arkansas’ power grid

August 1-7, 2022

As extreme hot weather presents special challenges across the region, utility and grid operators are closely monitoring the power grid and recent demand spike to ensure local residents and businesses stay cool.

August 8-14, 2022

BUDGET BUSTER: INFLATION WEIGHS ON FAMILY SPENDING

As Arkansas kicks off its back-to-school shopping season, retailers are hoping that rising inflation does not hurt one of their busiest and most profitable periods.

ABC Fitness continues global expansion with deal to acquire Irish competitor Glofox

Sherwood-based ABC Fitness Solutions (ABC), which provides software and other technology-related services for the health and fitness industry, announced plans on Aug. 2 to acquire Glofox Limited in Dublin, Ireland.

Amazon unveils new fleet of electric delivery vehicles; plans to put 100,000 on the road by 2030

Now almost as common as the U.S. Postal Services’ mail truck, Amazon will soon hit the road with its fleet of new customer electric delivery vehicles.

UA Little Rock to name Jack Stephens Center Court in honor of former coach Joe Foley

Little Rock Athletics will name the court at the Jack Stephens Center, home to the Trojans women’s basketball program that has been to six NCAA Tournaments with two NCAA Tournament wins, in honor of current Little Rock women’s basketball coach Joe Foley.

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Featured Stories

August 8-14, 2022

BUDGET BUSTER: INFLATION WEIGHS ON FAMILY SPENDING

ABC Fitness continues global expansion with deal to acquire Irish competitor Glofox

Amazon unveils new fleet of electric delivery vehicles; plans to put 100,000 on the road by 2030

UA Little Rock to name Jack Stephens Center Court in honor of former coach Joe Foley