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Western Foods LLC of Woodland, California, will open a gluten-free flour mill in an existing 50,000-SF building in Pine Bluff's industrial park.

A U.S. District Court judge in Arkansas dismisses a shareholders lawsuit against Tyson Foods Inc. that sprang from allegations of a massive price-fixing conspiracy involving the Springdale meat producer and other companies.

Mervin Jebaraj was named the interim director of the Center for Business & Economic Research at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in April to replace Kathy Deck. He has been with the center since 2007.

I have two unrelated things I want to complain about: noisy restaurants and medical bills.

Block Real Estate Services of Kansas City, Missouri, paid nearly $11.4 million for the Northwest Medical Plaza in Springdale.

Shelby Woods with his marketing agency, Cranford Johnson Robinson & Woods, became the state’s top tourism marketer, publishing the Arkansas Tour Guide for 50 years and helping rebrand Arkansas as a “Natural State” for visitors.

The recently closed Denny’s on MLK Jr. Boulevard in Fayetteville won’t remain empty for long.

Dave & Buster's says its first northwest Arkansas location is scheduled to open within the next year.

Allen Hurst, a Little Rock native who has spent the last 15 years in Colorado, and his family have moved back to Arkansas — to Little Rock — and he has set his sights on a second Burger 21 location in North Little Rock, probably in the McCain Boulevard-Landers Road vicinity.

The Arkansas Farm Bureau believes a move to roll back relations with Cuba is a step in the wrong direction. "There is no better diplomacy than making food available to another country," Randy Veach writes.

An affiliate of Olympus Property in Fort Worth, Texas, purchased The Ashburry at Chenal at 16401 Chenal Valley Drive.

Pulaski Technical College had nearly 12,000 students in 2012 when Margaret A. Ellibee became its chief. Today it has about 6,000, and to Ellibee that’s a good thing.

U.S. employers added 209,000 jobs in July, a second straight month of robust gains that underscore the economy's vitality as it enters a ninth year of expansion.

While spring floods left many rice farmers with fewer acres of rice than they originally planned, they're hopeful a rising market can offset at least some of the lost acreage.

The Arkansas Rice Federation Board on Wednesday announced that Lauren Waldrip Ward has been selected as its new executive director.

Now that China and the U.S. have finally come to an agreement to import American beef, the collective luck of Arkansas beef producers just got better.

Seven years after starting the a successful mini-chain of Skinny J's restaurants in northeast and central Arkansas, chef and restaurateur James Best is bringing something new to the local food scene.

Bowman Curve I & II LLC, an affiliate of Cooper Realty Investments Inc. of Rogers, sold its 60,779-SF retail center in west Little Rock.

James at the Mill, the restaurant in Johnson that pioneered fine dining with locally grown ingredients in northwest Arkansas, closed July 29 after 23 years in business.

Playtime was cut from the list of the things to do in Little Rock back in June when the Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration shut down the business at 600 Colonel Glenn Plaza Loop.

Western Foods to Employ 50 in Pine Bluff

Judge Dismisses Tyson Shareholders Lawsuit

UA Economist Mervin Jebaraj on Which Fast-Growing Industry Could Be the Most Unpredictable

Complaint Box (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)

KC Firm Pays $11.4M For Northwest Medical Plaza (NWA Real Deals)

Parks, Streams & Woods: 50 Years of Arkansas Tourism and the Ad Man Who Saw It All

Second Jimmy's Egg to Open in Former Fayetteville Denny's

Dave & Buster's Confirms Timetable for Rogers Opening

Burger 21 Eyes North Little Rock for Next Location

US Should Do More, Not Less, to Push Exports to Cuba (Randy Veach Commentary)

Ashburry Apartments Visited by $18.6M Sale (Real Deals)

Slimmed-Down Pulaski Tech Fits UA System

US Gains 209K Jobs, Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.3 Percent

Arkansas Farmers Optimistic Despite Floods

Arkansas Rice Federation Names Lauren Waldrip Ward Executive Director

Where's the Arkansas Beef? Headed to China (Jennifer Cook Commentary)

Skinny J's Owner James Best Opens New Jonesboro Venture

Bowman Curve Draws $7.1M Transaction (Real Deals)

Miles James Turns Attention to Pizzeria After James at the Mill Sale

Recess for Playtime Property Could End with Call Center