Bentonville News

Walmart is turning up the pressure to keep its shelves adequately stocked by proposing to tie executive compensation to the issue - and has asked an outside auditor to alert workers which items to focus on by plastering U.S. stores with neon green dots.

With the Walton Arts Center's plans to construct two new venues in Benton County now in place, center officials are seeking to restructure their governing board to reflect a more regional, multi-campus approach.

A rendering by Rogers-based Core Architects shows what a new Arkansas Music Pavilion would look like in Rogers off Interstate 540 near the Pinnacle Hills Promenade.

Consumers across Northwest Arkansas continue to boost local sales tax collections upward through the first three months of this year, despite the adjustment to higher payroll taxes and a colder winter season.

A Walmart executive at the CTIA 2013: Mobile Marketplace conference said that the mobile industry encompasses a variety of channels, but consumers do not care about that.

A member of the Bentonville Police Bomb Squad removes a gasoline can Wednesday from a room at a vacant hotel on Southeast Walton Boulevard near U.S. 71 in Bentonville.

Tommy Culpepper of Bentonville had a trying year in 2010 - a divorce, a new city, a new job - but hitting the open mic.

Governor Mike Beebe on Wednesday presented four Arkansas companies with the Governor's Award for Excellence in Global Trade during an awards luncheon at the Governor's Mansion.

Posted on: 7:34 am, May 22, 2013, by Leah Seiter , Christine Whitten and Allison Woods , updated on: 03:21pm, May 22, 2013 Police Chief Jon Simpson said several various, suspicious items were found inside a vacant motel room Wednesday .

The Bentonville, Ark.-based company said Tuesday that it will make donations of cash and materials equal to $1 million.

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A judge in Delaware ordered attorneys for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to turn over more information to shareholders seeking records on how the company responded to allegations of bribery involving its operations in Mexico.

In the wake of last month's factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 workers, a host of retailers have signed a safety agreement that mandates inspections, training and even repairs at garment factories in the Asian country.

The world's largest retailer reported Thursday that its first-quarter profit edged up slightly, but the company struggled with a sales slump in its namesake business.

BENTONVILLE, AR - Northwest Arkansas Community College is the latest institution to opt out of a state law that allows faculty and staff to carry concealed guns on campus.

The Arkansas State Board of Education is recognizing five principals who've completed the work needed to become master school principals.

IMBODEN GRADUATION: Class motto: Our lives are before us, the past is behind us, but our memories are forever with us.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acting as the receiver of the defunct ANB Financial of Bentonville, easily scored another multimillion-dollar judgment last week against a Benton County developer.

Benton County has been declared a disaster due to continuing flooding. Benton County Judge Robert D. Clinard made the declaration Friday morning as a result of heavy rains which started Thursday.

Despite all of the discussion in the legislature about Act 226, a bill that would allow faculty and staff to carry a concealed firearm on college campuses, NorthWest Arkansas Community College has received a recommendation to its Board of Trustees to exercise the right to ban firearms on campus.