Michael Tilley/ Talk Business & Politics

The national museum, located near the Arkansas River in downtown Fort Smith, could draw as many as 125,000 visitors in the first full year.

A slight percentage increase in the number of employed compared with the number of jobless helped push Arkansas’ February unemployment rate to 3.2%.

The Department of Finance and Administration reported nearly 3,000 fully-electric vehicles were registered at the end of last month. The number of hybrid vehicles grew to about 27-thousand.

Arkansas Republicans praised a likely U.S. Supreme Court decision ending abortion rights while decrying the leak of the court’s draft opinion.

Traffic on the river is up compared to last year, and one port operator says could have been even more robust if shippers had access to more barges.

The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has put the first significant funding into a decades-long effort to deepen the Arkansas River navigation channel to 12-feet.

All eight metro areas posted jobless rate declines in December compared with December 2020, with northwest Arkansas and Jonesboro posting the lowest rates, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Arkansas’ two U.S. senators and two of the four representatives on Thursday said Congress needs to impose stringent sanctions.

In his weekly press conference, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said the addition of nearly 500 beds is needed to house more inmates.

An Arkansas company says it has processed more than $2 billion in transactions for cannabis and that growth within the industry comes as more states have legalized marijuana use.