Archive
September 2026
- Bentonville Nonprofit Opens $13 Million Rogers Apartments
The three-story, 60-unit Olive Street Apartments opened at 700 N. 24th St. in Rogers on roughly $13 million of investment, developed by Bentonville-based nonprofit Community Devel…
- Night Work Permit Lands On Bentonville Planning Agenda
The Bentonville Planning Commission's Sept. 15, 2026 agenda, posted Sept. 8 to the city's CivicClerk portal, carries a temporary use permit for "Bentonville Health Care Campus - N…
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- ARDOT Opens $400 Million In Northwest Arkansas Highways
The Arkansas Department of Transportation marked completion of $400 million in interstate-style highway projects spanning Benton and Washington counties at a Friday, Sept. 4, 2026…
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- Fayetteville Council Re-Approves Contested Rezoning, Amendment Fails
The Fayetteville City Council approved, for a second time, a rezoning of a property northwest of the city over neighbor opposition, and an accompanying amendment request failed to…
- XNA Connector Road, Bypass Phase Two Near Opening
The Arkansas Department of Transportation has set a ribbon cutting for Phase Two of the U.S. 412 Springdale Northern Bypass and the new Connector Road to Northwest Arkansas Nation…
- Drake Farms Opens First Fayetteville Apartments
Drake Farms, a multi-use development on about 165 acres in Fayetteville, has opened its first apartments for leasing, with six floor plans reported in the initial phase (…
August 2026
- University of Arkansas Sets Sept. 17 Commerce Summit
The University of Arkansas has scheduled a Future of Commerce Summit for Sept. 17, 2026, framed around new technologies, business models and consumer expectations colliding — and…
- Two Fayetteville Planning Cases Logged, Outcomes Unrecorded
Two Fayetteville Planning Commission cases each moved through the commission's two-step process in August 2026 without a result appearing in the record available to this desk. RZN…
- Bentonville Medical Center Designated Level III Trauma Center
Joplin, Mo.-based Freeman Health System says the Arkansas Department of Health has designated its 128-bed Bentonville Medical Center and 222-bed Springdale Medical Center as Level…
- Amazeum Adds 34,740 Square Feet This Fall
The Scott Family Amazeum in Bentonville will open roughly 34,740 square feet of new indoor and outdoor space adjacent to its existing 50,000-square-foot building when an expansion…
- AI Startup Triton Ventures Opens Bentonville Headquarters
Sales tax revenue reported in August for Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale totaled $10.001 million, down 0.12% from the same month a year earlier, while the four ci…
- XNA Board Approves $78.78 Million Terminal Expansion
The Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) Board of Directors, meeting in special session Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, approved a $78.78 million bid for a two-level, roughly 111,000…
- University of Arkansas Activates 150 Forward Phase Three
The University of Arkansas announced Aug. 24, 2026 that it has fully activated the third phase of its 150 Forward 'Reaching Higher' strategic plan, setting what it calls transform…
- Bentonville To Bake Off Three AI Traffic Signal Systems
The City of Bentonville plans to put three AI-enabled traffic-signal technologies through a head-to-head test at locations around the city, according to a Bentonville Bulletin rep…
- Bentonville Supplier-Community Founders Launch Denim Brand
Talk Business & Politics' Supply Side column (Aug. 23, 2026) reports that a Bentonville couple who were 'gainfully employed in real estate and the Northwest Arkansas Walmart suppl…
- Skyline Report Flips Northwest Arkansas To Buyer's Market
The 2026 Skyline Report, covered Aug. 21, 2026 by two outlets, describes a Northwest Arkansas housing market where sales volume keeps rising while pricing splits by county: the av…
- University of Arkansas Launches Arkansas Materials Institute
The University of Arkansas announced Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, the launch of the Arkansas Materials Institute, which combines the existing Nano Institute with the Materials Science…
- Walmart Reports Slowest U.S. Comparable Sales In Six Years
Walmart's Aug. 20, 2026 quarterly report gives Northwest Arkansas its clearest read on the regional economy's anchor: revenue rose 5.9% and adjusted earnings per share came in at…
- South Fayetteville Historic District Vote Delayed Again
Approval of the South Fayetteville Historic District has been delayed for a second time, with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporting the postponement stems from a disag…
- AI Shopping Tools Reach 42% Of Consumers
Talk Business & Politics' Supply Side column (Aug. 17, 2026) reports NielsenIQ data showing 42% of consumers used at least one artificial intelligence tool to shop in the past mon…
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- Swarm Aero Lands $10M Federal Contract in Fayetteville
Swarm Aero has been awarded a $10 million government contract for work at its Fayetteville manufacturing facility — the 80,000-square-foot plant that held its ribbon cutting in Fe…
- Washington Regional Names Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville has appointed Rowland 'Todd' Stewart, MD, as Vice President and Chief Medical Informatics Officer — a newly named executive role…
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- Simmons Foods Creates CCO Role in Siloam Springs
A Bloomberg report carried in the NWA Democrat-Gazette on August 9, 2026 documents a rising infrastructure cost for data centers: power-grid voltage swings are accelerating wear a…
- Simmons Foods Elevates Pet Division Leader to CCO
University of Arkansas students inject an estimated $569 million annually into the Northwest Arkansas economy, according to a 2024 study cited in an August 7, 2026 NWA Daily repor…
- Bentonville Council to Review 2025 Financial Audit
The Bentonville City Council's August 11, 2026 Combined Committee of the Whole & City Council meeting includes submission of the 2025 Financial Audit as a formal agenda item — the…
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- Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Brings Startup Program to NWA
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center has launched a startup growth program in Northwest Arkansas, according to an August 4, 2026 NWA Democrat-Gazette report. The San Francisco-based…
- Walton College Marks Leadership Transition as Fall Semester Begins
Z Squared Inc., a Florida-based digital information company, has reached a deal to acquire Paradox Data LLC and its El Dorado data center in south Arkansas. The NWA Democrat-Gazet…
- Nobel Laureate Jumper Moves From Google to Anthropic
Forma Fertility, a Bentonville-based reproductive care venture, is finalizing a letter of support with Park Hill Clinic for Women — described as one of the larger women's health p…
- Bentonville Lawmaker Arrested Amid County Judge Race
Rep. Austin McCollum, R-Bentonville, was arrested on August 1, 2026 on charges of third-degree domestic battering (a Class A misdemeanor), first-degree false imprisonment, and agg…
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July 2026
- Walmart Frames AI as Employee Support Tool
A Walmart official publicly characterized AI as a tool to support employees rather than replace them, according to a July 31, 2026 NWA Democrat-Gazette report by Serenah McKay. Th…