Lollapalooza Producer to Partner on New Music-Art-Tech Festival in NW Arkansas ArtsBentonvilleEntertainmentHeadlinesMusic

Lollapalooza Producer to Partner on New Music-Art-Tech Festival in NW Arkansas

The inaugural edition of the FORMAT festival will bring a world-class mix of art, music…

aronsheltonApril 25, 2022

Crystal Bridges Museum, and a Town’s Resurgence – CBS News ArtsBentonvilleHeadlines

Crystal Bridges Museum, and a Town’s Resurgence – CBS News

CBS News interviews Alice and Olivia Walton about Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and…

aronsheltonApril 24, 2022

NW Arkansas Ranks No. 3 Hottest U.S. Job Market (Metro Areas Under 1M Population) – WSJ AccoladesBusinessHeadlinesJobs

NW Arkansas Ranks No. 3 Hottest U.S. Job Market (Metro Areas Under 1M Population) – WSJ

Annual labor-market ratings judge metro areas on five attributes: job growth, unemployment rate, share of…

aronsheltonApril 24, 2022

World-renowned Cleveland Clinic Partners on Plan for New Regional Health System CommunityFayettevilleHeadlinesHealthcare

World-renowned Cleveland Clinic Partners on Plan for New Regional Health System

The nonprofit Alice L. Walton Foundation (ALWF) in Bentonville and Washington Regional Medical System in…

aronsheltonApril 24, 2022

NWA-based Black Apple Snags Several Awards at New York International Cider Competition AccoladesBentonvilleFood & DrinkHeadlinesSpringdale

NWA-based Black Apple Snags Several Awards at New York International Cider Competition

Arkansas Cider Producer of the Year 🥇 Honey: Silver 🥈 Wild Berry: Bronze🥉

aronsheltonApril 19, 2022

Is Bentonville the Next Great Restaurant Town? BentonvilleFood & DrinkHeadlines

Is Bentonville the Next Great Restaurant Town?

James Beard-nominated The Preacher’s Son is drawing national attention to this corner of Arkansas, with…

aronsheltonApril 14, 2022

Bentonville Named Top Place to Ride Mountain Bikes Around the World AccoladesBentonvilleHeadlinesOutdoors

Bentonville Named Top Place to Ride Mountain Bikes Around the World

Bentonville has leaped into the national spotlight in the last few years and is now…

aronsheltonApril 12, 2022

Eureka Springs Named One of South’s Best Mountain Towns 2022 AccoladesEureka SpringsHeadlines

Eureka Springs Named One of South’s Best Mountain Towns 2022

The historic downtown area is the calling card of, Arkansas, a mountain town nestled in…

aronsheltonApril 9, 2022

‘GMA’s’ T.J. Holmes visits alma mater, University of Arkansas CommunityFayettevilleFood & DrinkHeadlines

‘GMA’s’ T.J. Holmes visits alma mater, University of Arkansas

Good Morning America says “Rise and Shine” to the Razorbacks, with a big surprise from…

aronsheltonApril 7, 2022

NW Arkansas Ranked Most Dynamic Metropolitan AccoladesBentonvilleFayettevilleHeadlinesRogersSpringdale

NW Arkansas Ranked Most Dynamic Metropolitan

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas, (Northwest Arkansas) home to Walmart in Bentonville, combines the advantages of the University…

aronsheltonApril 6, 2022

Thaden Field – ‘The Coolest Airport in the Country’ AccoladesBentonvilleHeadlines

Thaden Field – ‘The Coolest Airport in the Country’

NW Arkansas’ Thaden Field tries to unite aviation’s history and its new generation

aronsheltonApril 6, 2022

Little Bread Co. Named One of South’s Best Bakeries 2022 AccoladesFayettevilleFood & DrinkHeadlines

Little Bread Co. Named One of South’s Best Bakeries 2022

"Every item is made fresh that morning, which means the staff start their day at…

aronsheltonApril 5, 2022

Wall Street Journal Piece on Drones in NW Arkansas BusinessCitiesHeadlinesTechnology

Wall Street Journal Piece on Drones in NW Arkansas

Late last year, Zipline built a launch platform attached to the back of a Walmart…

aronsheltonApril 4, 2022

The Smithsonian Comes to the Ozarks – Arkansas Times CommunityEducationHeadlinesOutdoors

The Smithsonian Comes to the Ozarks – Arkansas Times

That such an exhibition would land here came as a surprise; but a leisurely day…

aronsheltonApril 1, 2022

NW Arkansas Ranked Nation’s 8th Best-Performing Large City AccoladesBentonvilleCitiesFayettevilleHeadlinesRogersSpringdale

NW Arkansas Ranked Nation’s 8th Best-Performing Large City

NWA is one of the nation's top metros when it comes to economic resilience and…

aronsheltonApril 1, 2022

Museum of Native American History Named Top 10 Best History Museum 2022 AccoladesArtsBentonvilleEducationHeadlines

Museum of Native American History Named Top 10 Best History Museum 2022

Among the Bentonville collection of artifacts are pieces dating back some 14,000 years; highlights include…

aronsheltonMarch 31, 2022

Fayetteville Ranked One of the Best College Towns in the South EducationFayettevilleHeadlines

Fayetteville Ranked One of the Best College Towns in the South

Fayetteville is a town whose approach to hospitality is as wide-open as the expansive views…

aronsheltonMarch 30, 2022

Bentonville Named One of South’s Best Cities on the Rise 2022 AccoladesBentonvilleHeadlines

Bentonville Named One of South’s Best Cities on the Rise 2022

Once you've enjoyed the urban scene, slip away to the surrounding Ozarks and enjoy the…

aronsheltonMarch 15, 2022

MTB in NWA: Northwest’s Cycling Scene Continues to Grow BentonvilleHeadlinesOutdoors

MTB in NWA: Northwest’s Cycling Scene Continues to Grow

Search “mountain biking capital of the world” on Google. What do you get? Not Moab…

aronsheltonFebruary 28, 2022

Arkansas Stakes Claim to be Global Leader in Next Gen Transportation by 2030 BusinessEntrepreneurshipHeadlinesJobsTechnology

Arkansas Stakes Claim to be Global Leader in Next Gen Transportation by 2030

Arkansas launches a plan to become the Silicon Valley of transportation.

aronsheltonFebruary 24, 2022

Three Bentonville Restaurants Nominated as James Beard Semifinalists AccoladesBentonvilleFood & DrinkHeadlines

Three Bentonville Restaurants Nominated as James Beard Semifinalists

Chef Matt McClure at The Hive and Chef Rafael Rios at Yeyo’s were nominated for…

aronsheltonFebruary 24, 2022

Apprenticeships Opening Doors for Local Workforce BusinessEducationHeadlinesJobsTechnology

Apprenticeships Opening Doors for Local Workforce

The Northwest Arkansas Council is excited to see the number of IT apprentices more than…

aronsheltonFebruary 23, 2022

NW Arkansas Ranked One of Most Affordable Places to Live and Work AccoladesBusinessCommunityHeadlines

NW Arkansas Ranked One of Most Affordable Places to Live and Work

GoodHire analyzed data from 155 US cities — those with a labor force of more…

aronsheltonFebruary 23, 2022

A Simple, Radical Idea Paves Way for Fayetteville Entrepreneurs BusinessCitiesFayettevilleHeadlines

A Simple, Radical Idea Paves Way for Fayetteville Entrepreneurs

The average person walking down the main drag of Dickson Street might be surprised to…

aronsheltonFebruary 22, 2022

University of Arkansas Among Top Institutions for Research Activity AccoladesEducationFayettevilleHeadlines

University of Arkansas Among Top Institutions for Research Activity

The U of A is among fewer than 4% of colleges and universities in America…

aronsheltonFebruary 14, 2022

Springdale-based Band Drops Music Video Dedicated to the Marshallese Community CommunityHeadlinesMusicSpringdale

Springdale-based Band Drops Music Video Dedicated to the Marshallese Community

Springdale-based Mark Harmony creates music that echoes the heartbeat of their people for the Voices…

aronsheltonFebruary 10, 2022

Why Bentonville is America’s Next Boom Town (LinkedIn) BentonvilleBusinessFayettevilleHeadlinesOutdoors

Why Bentonville is America’s Next Boom Town (LinkedIn)

Imagine that Vail, Aspen, Snowbird and Jackson Hole were all built in one town and…

aronsheltonFebruary 10, 2022

3 NWA Corporations Made Fortune’s 2022 Most Admired Companies List AccoladesBusinessHeadlines

3 NWA Corporations Made Fortune’s 2022 Most Admired Companies List

Fortune ranked Tyson Foods no. 1 in the world in Food Production. Walmart made the…

aronsheltonFebruary 3, 2022

TheatreSquared Wins The 2021 International Architecture Award AccoladesArtsFayettevilleHeadlines

TheatreSquared Wins The 2021 International Architecture Award

TheatreSquared has been awarded the prestigious 2021 International Architecture Awards in the category of 'Museums…

aronsheltonFebruary 3, 2022

Scenes from Cyclocross Worlds in Fayetteville (Gallery) FayettevilleHeadlinesOutdoors

Scenes from Cyclocross Worlds in Fayetteville (Gallery)

At the end of January, Fayetteville brought the UCI 2022 world cyclocross championships back to…

aronsheltonFebruary 1, 2022