LITTLE ROCK – April 23, 2026 – As the airline industry looks to rebound from its post-pandemic doldrums and rising jet fuel costs, one of the “Big Three” domestic carriers announced plans to expand its regional maintenance facility in Little Rock Over a decade after American Airlines landed its regional maintenance facility in Little Rock, the Fort […]
By the Arkansas Delta Informer Staff April 23, 2026 –Arkansas’s Steel Corridor just got another tenant today after a Japanese industrial conglomerate announced plans to build a $37 million advanced flat-rolled steel processing plant in Osceola Marubeni-Itochu Steel America Inc., also known as MISA, said today (Thursday, April 23) that its multimillion-dollar strategic investment will create […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff Clarksdale, Miss. – March 19, 2026 – After the Trump administration put a funding freeze on trillions of dollars directed to federal assistance programs, new grant opportunities are now available due to favorable court rulings and the reopening of some programs that were put on pause. On Monday, the multistate […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff WILSON, Ark. – March 11, 2026 – A Boston-based private equity group that previously claimed to have invested over $4 billion in one of the largest solar and energy storage projects in the United States announced today that it is withdrawing from the decade-long project, located in northeast Arkansas. Swift […]