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The board of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr.'s "Rebuild the Rock" sales-tax increase ahead of the Sept. 14 citywide referendum on the tax.

ADVERTISEMENT Arkansas jobless rate stays at 4.4% for May by Andrew Moreau | June 24, 2021 at 1:58 a.m. In this Sept. 2, 2020, file photo, a "help wanted" sign hangs on the door of a Target store in Uniontown, Pa. The states joblessness rate remained unchanged at 4.4% in May, still well below the national unemployment rate of 5.8%, Arkansas officials said Wednesday. Unemployment in Arkansas was 8.5% a year ago as the pandemic strangled the economy. Ten industry sectors reported growth from Apri...

The 50th anniversary of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) was celebrated in ceremonies at Little Rock, Ark., and Tulsa, Okla.

The countdown begins now as the highly anticipated Costco store will open on July 21st in Little Rock.

A rendering of the new Costco store in Little Rock. (Costco) Costco announced on its website this week that its first store in Arkansas, announced in April 2020, will finally open at 16901 Chenal Parkway in Little Rock at 10 a.m. July 21. The publicly traded retailer headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, has been developing for months a 165,000-SF warehouse store on 32 acres at the southwest corner of Chen...