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SouthGrow Regional Initiative, in collaboration with MNP LLP, D-Com Energy Solutions, and Community Futures Lethbridge Region, have announced the re-launching of the Agri-Food Futures Scholarship Program.

Work is underway to help communities across the region address labour gaps.

Nine organizations in southern Alberta are coming together to strengthen and diversify the economy of southwest Alberta as American tariffs set in.

A new program is helping preserve the Blackfoot language, while teaching locals and visitors to southern Alberta about the region's history.

A move by the province to place a six month pause on solar and wind projects greater than one megawatt is drawing mixed reactions from the clean energy industry and municipalities.

Applications are open for an agricultural scholarship program in southern Alberta.

The term Alberta advantage doesn’t get spoken as often as it used to, but it’s still alive and well, and will likely help the province rise above the challenges expected over the next decade and beyond, says an Alberta economist and university professor

Region can showcase unique crops like sugar beets, haskap berries

Three local post-secondary students have received agricultural scholarships.

With the transition away from more traditional forms of energy generation, such as the burning of fossil fuels, nearly all of the individuals who are working in those industries will be losing their jobs.

With the desire for new technologies to be built within the energy sector, it is economic development organizations like SouthGrow who help push this development forward.

With SouthGrow being one of the major contributors to economic development in southern Alberta, they can provide an in-depth look into some of the new technologies that are coming to our region.

The SouthGrow Regional Economic Development Alliance is asking those interested in a future career in the agriculture sector to apply for their Agri-food Future Scholarship Program.

The Highway 3 Twinning Development Association has commissioned a study on twinning the remaining sections of the route from Medicine Hat to the British Columbia boundary.

Roadblocks are falling away for electric vehicles (EVs).

An economic development alliance of thirty south-central Alberta communities has launched a program for funding electric vehicle charging stations.

The Carmangay Community Centre Association (CCCA) held a grand opening April 23 for the village’s new community gathering place.

The Ag Expo and North American Seed Fair, one of western Canada's largest Ag Expos, kicked off Wednesday at the Lethbridge Exhibition Park.

The Stoney Nakoda First Nation is now home to the latest electric vehicle charging station to open along the Trans-Canada Highway.

The range of travel for electric vehicles was expanded in southern Alberta on Friday with the opening of charging stations in the communities of Pincher Creek, Nanton and Longview.