A $13 million gift from two of Northwest Arkansas’ leading families will allow The New School to add a high school, beginning with ninth grade later this year.The announcement of…

Forbes and other publications crank out “best of” lists like crazy, and we at the Northwest Arkansas Council resisted the temptation to develop our own.We couldn’t stop ourselves as 2015…

Stacie Bloomfield, the owner of Gingiber, opened her first and only storefront on Emma Avenue in Springdale this year. The majority of the working artist's greeting cards, calendars, tea towels,…

Simmons Feed Ingredients, an affiliate of Simmons Foods, Inc. & Affiliates, broke ground this week on an 89,125-square-foot facility and will add 78 new jobs.Workers at the new pet food…

A new report released Tuesday by the Milken Institute ranks Northwest Arkansas as the nation’s 24th best economic performer among the largest metropolitan areas.It’s the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metropolitan Statistical Area’s highest…

J.B. Hunt Transport Services plans to add more than 1,000 jobs over a six-year period, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced today.The governor's new jobs announcement was made during a ceremony…