Category: The Arkansas Delta
By the Arkansas Delta Informer Staff EL DORADO, Ark. – Feb. 2, 2026 – As South Arkansas ramps up multi-billion-dollar investments in the defense, forestry, and lithium industries, corporate denizens traveling to and from the region will no longer have to go to Little Rock, Texarkana, or Shreveport, La., to connect to the domestic and […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff EAST CAMDEN, Ark. — Feb. 27, 2026 — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit Camden on Friday as part of his nationwide “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, with planned stops at defense contractors General Dynamics and L3 Harris at the Highland Industrial Park in East Camden. During […]
By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK — Feb. 24, 2026 – Profits at Arkansas’ federally insured banks remained competitive in the final quarter of 2025, mirroring a national trend of “strong earnings” and robust loan growth even as the industry navigates lingering weakness in commercial real estate. For the period ended Dec. 31, […]
By The Arkansas Delta Informer Staff EAST CAMDEN, Ark. – Feb. 21, 2026 –The wins keep coming for L3Harris Technologies and other defense contractors at south Arkansas’s Highland Park industrial complex, further solidifying the 19,000-acre site as a key hub in the Pentagon’s ongoing “Arsenal of Freedom” expansion funded by the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion defense budget. Earlier this […]
