Noel Oman

WEST MEMPHIS --A bad weld is suspected as the cause of the significant fracture found in a 900-foot steel beam on the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River at Memphis, according to a top Arkansas Department of Transportation official.

Costco Wholesale’s $23.2 million retail development in west Little Rock is scheduled to open on July 21, but whether the membership warehouse will be able to sell liquor remains unsettled.

A roughly half-mile section of Interstate 30 in downtown Little Rock will be closed and require detours all next weekend to accommodate work on the nearly $1 billion 30 Crossing project.

The Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River at Memphis is scheduled to start reopening Sunday night, just under 12 weeks after it was abruptly closed when a fracture affecting the integrity of the structure was discovered, according to Crittenden County’s top executive.

Blackmon Auctions has less product to sell these days, but the third-generation business has enjoyed a banner year, according to Thomas Blackmon.

Matt Moudy said he thought he was pivoting from a career in dentistry to a career in doors when he sold his Cabot practice and bought a Jacksonville company that designs and installs high-end iron doors for homes.

Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport has 5G data service available inside the airport for travelers to use, but it isn’t the same 5G that the aviation industry says could interfere with the radio altimeters in commercial airliners.

A longtime senior executive at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field said he was fired in December after the Little Rock airport’s top official told him to hire a white candidate for an open position even though he scored a Black candidate as more qualified.

The former operations director at Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport/Adams Field was described as a nettlesome executive whose firing was prompted by the latest example of his “self-centered, ‘I know better than you’ behavior,” according to an internal account of his dismissal.

Young engineers increasingly no longer want to go to the Arkansas Department of Transportation, so the largest employer of civil engineers in the state is going to them.