by - May 12, 2020 12:29 pm
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) announced Tuesday (May 12) plans to develop the DRA Regional Development Plan IV, a new economic development strategy that will outline the agency’s priorities and…
by - May 1, 2020 11:52 am
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA), in partnership with the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and the U.S Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA), has announced the availability of approximately…
by - February 5, 2020 2:49 pm
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) awarded Winrock International a $675,785 grant to help fund the Delta Innovation Fund (I-Fund) program through October 2021. Modeled on the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps…
by - December 18, 2019 7:46 pm
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) announced Wednesday (Dec. 18) a $181,931 investment to support Opportunity Zones (OZ) in communities across Arkansas. Opportunity Arkansas, an initiative of the Arkansas Economic Development…
by - November 20, 2019 1:16 pm
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) has hired Little Rock native Shawna Blair as its new communications director. Her first day was Nov. 18. Blair spent the past 14 years as…
by - November 17, 2019 5:28 pm
Arkansas is sending five people from the state to the Delta Regional Authority’s (DRA) Delta Leadership Institute (DLI). They will join fellows from the seven other Delta states to participate…
by - October 22, 2019 8:28 pm
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) announced Tuesday (Oct. 22) a $1.5 million investment into 11 organizations across the Mississippi River Delta region to align workforce and economic development strategies, enhance…
by - October 7, 2019 4:13 pm
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) has made a $2,228,104 investment in public infrastructure and workforce training to grow the region’s economy and create jobs, DRA Federal Co-Chairman Chris Caldwell and…
by - October 1, 2019 7:21 pm
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a $14,587,500 investment into eight organizations across the Mississippi River Delta region to expand the impact of…
by - August 17, 2019 10:42 am
There are five new Arkansas graduates of the Delta Leadership Institute (DLI) Executive Academy who now have the tools to support the Delta Regional Authority’s efforts to create jobs, build…
by - July 24, 2019 9:11 pm
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) announced Wednesday (July 24) the four university partners selected to expand and build upon the Delta Leadership Institute (DLI). DRA will continue its existing partnership…
by - June 3, 2019 5:45 am
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater had a solution to a problem that had vexed President Bill Clinton since he served as governor of Arkansas. Clinton had tried for years…
by - February 27, 2019 6:50 pm
Twenty early-stage startups from the Mississippi Delta region have been selected for the seventh cohort of the Delta Innovation Fund (Delta I-Fund) startup accelerator. Funded by the Delta Regional Authority…
by - February 26, 2019 4:37 pm
Delta Regional Authority (DRA) Federal Co-chairman Chris Caldwell announced Tuesday (Feb. 26) that Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has been named States’ Co-chair of DRA for 2019. DRA’s Board of…
by - October 16, 2018 1:27 pm
The Delta Regional Authority released a little over $2 million for 12 projects in Arkansas on Tuesday (Oct. 16). The economic development projects cover a range of investments from sewer…
by - April 26, 2018 7:37 pm
Expanded access to broadband internet is one of the key development issues in the eight state region that is part of the Delta Regional Authority’s coverage area, new DRA federal…
by - April 2, 2018 3:04 pm
One objective former Lawrence County Judge Dale Freeman had during his tenure was to pave Lawrence County Road 210, a rural thoroughfare that connects a budding new business, American Silica,…
by - February 26, 2018 6:12 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has been named the state’s co-chair of the Delta Regional Authority’s Board of Governors. He replaces outgoing co-chair Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey . He will serve alongside…
by - September 13, 2017 12:58 pm
President Donald Trump has selected Christopher Caldwell to be the next Delta Regional Authority co-chairman. Caldwell, who works as U.S. Sen. John Boozman’s special projects director, is a seventh generation…
by - August 14, 2017 3:54 pm
President Donald Trump appointed former Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Dickson Kinder as the alternate federal co-chairman of the Delta Regional Authority. DRA had two open chairmen spots after former Co-Chairman…
