Pine Bluff Commercial

1 day ago | arkansasonline.com | Serenah McKay

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Walmart opened its first owned and operated case-ready beef packaging facility in Olathe, Kan., on Friday, creating more than 600 jobs in the area. Workers at the more than 300,000-square-foot plant will package fresh Angus beef into case-ready cuts and send them to Walmart distribution centers, where they'll be taken to stores across the Midwest.

2 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Eric Harrison

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. The Arkansas Cinema Society is “celebrating the best of B-movie cinema,” according to a news release, with a new screening series it’s calling “Summer Camp.” It kicks off with the first of two campy, cult horror films:◼️ “Eaten Alive” (1976), screening 6 p.m. Friday in the Lecture Hall at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. Rock.

2 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Eric Harrison

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Finalists for the 2025 Arkansas Food Hall of Fame include seven restaurants across the state, from Blytheville to Camden. The list, unveiled on Thursday by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders:The Food Hall program, which the Division of Arkansas Heritage launched in 2016, "celebrates Arkansas' unique culinary heritage by recognizing its best restaurants, proprietors and food-themed events," according to a news release.

2 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Flip Putthoff

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. The 81st Rodeo of the Ozarks got underway with a parade through downtown Springdale. Click here to see more photos from the parade and the rodeo.

2 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Chip Souza

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. SPRINGDALE -- Nick Pelke is enjoying quite a ride in the 2025 pro rodeo season. The 25-year-old bareback bronc rider from Mondovi, Wisc., rolled in for the 81st Rodeo of the Ozarks sitting seventh in the PRCA standings Wednesday night. Although his 79.5 aboard Cervi Championship Rodeo's X53 Vegas Vacation did not win the first night's go-round, he didn't complain, not with the year he's putting together.