Category: The Arkansas Delta
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 […]
By the Arkansas Delta Informer Staff Lewisville, Ark. – Feb. 22, 2026– After announcing strategic deals to secure strong leasehold positions in the Smackover Formation in south Arkansas, the nation’s largest oil and gas conglomerates are planning to spend potentially billions of dollars to exploit lithium resources in the region in 2026. In just a […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality StaffLITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Feb. 20, 2026 – The Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) today approved the initial tranche of Arkansas’s more than $1.2 billion in federal funds from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program awards, allocating $126.1 million to expand high-speed broadband access in most rural areas of […]