In its second major energy announcement this year, Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday that it would spend $75 million to help to power diesel cars and high-performance military jets.

From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers’ incomes and invigorate local economies in this poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta.

Elaine kindergarten through third grade students recently toured First Bank of the Delta, N.A. located on Cherry St. in Helena.

Clark County voters approved a 0.5-cent sales and use tax for economic development Tuesday. As of 9:15 p.m., complete but unofficial results were 1,755 ballots cast in favor of the measure and 804 votes cast against.

Two years of planning and dreaming brought John King before the Advertising and Planning Commission Tuesday in hopes of netting the needed funding for the courthouse Square Park on Cherry St.

Other cities in Arkansas will have to “measure up” to Arkadelphia if they want to be the next Entrepreneurial Community of the Year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rual Business Cooperative Programs closed a $750,000 loan with Southern Financial Partners (SFP) on Aug.8.

More than 90 percent of the persons asked to participate in leading the Clark County Strategic Planning process have accepted, Dr.
Wesley Kluck said Tuesday during a meeting of the committee.

The Arkadelphia Area Chamber of Commerce, Clark County Industrial Council and Small Business Development Center at Henderson State University are teaming up to bring back “Business After Hours.”

Helena-West Helena code enforcement officers Terrance Oliver and T.L. Green along with members of the H-WHPD were occupied Tuesday and Wednesday confiscating cars that have been sitting in yards all over the city.