Doug Thompson

Small Business Saturday is no gimmick, local business owners said in interviews Friday.

ROGERS -- Rogers City Council races resulting in runoffs cost anywhere between $85 and more than $18,030 this year, according to campaign finance records and interviews with candidates.

The gap between the cost of dealing with stormwater runoff and the cost of development aimed at mitigating it is rapidly closing in Northwest Arkansas, according to experts.

FAYETTEVILLE -- Steve Clark retired Tuesday as the president and CEO of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, calling his tenure there the highlight of a career in which he was once state attorney general and a contender for governor.

FAYETTEVILLE -- Steve Clark retired Tuesday as the president and CEO of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, calling his tenure there the highlight of a career in which he was once state attorney general and a contender for governor.

SILOAM SPRINGS -- The health care sector in Northwest Arkansas is growing faster than the rest of region's economy, but not fast enough to catch up to the needs of the growing population or with health quality standards of similar regions, the Northwest Arkansas Council was told Wednesday.

SPRINGDALE -- The Whitaker Family Foundation will donate $5 million to Arkansas Children's Northwest's expansion, the foundation and the hospital announced Thursday.

FAYETTEVILLE -- The Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks hosted a celebration Wednesday in recognition of its five-star rating from federal Medicare administrators.

More federal grants for medical research need to go to states with the greatest health needs, medical providers and researchers in Springdale and Bentonville told Monica Bertagnolli, the director of the National Institutes of Health, on Tuesday.

Education approach divides candidates in Fort Smith House race