Bowers News

In Bowers Beach and historic New Castle, state and local officials are planning for what many believe is inevitable: more flooding from rising sea level.

Traveling in weather that only those connected to mariners would brave, the Delaware Maritime Hall of Fame inducted five new members who have honored the state's maritime heritage.

If Phil Tuthill and Liz Thompson were not at a Kent County Levy Court meeting, there had to be a government gathering elsewhere that they thought was a greater threat to the common good.

Just before lunchtime on Labor Day, a seal failed in the hydraulic system of a tugboat at Big Stone Anchorage.

Three species of little crabs used to dwell in the shallow waters where the tide rises and falls along Delaware Bay.

An April fire that gutted a Milford motel under construction, causing an estimate $1 million in damage, has been ruled arson, officials said Tuesday.

Town officials seeking to fire Police Chief William Phillips portrayed him Friday as a top cop who did not follow the rules, oversaw a sloppy department and removed and shredded documents and items from the department before being suspended in March.

Officials say a Bear man has died after a boating accident near Bowers Beach. Authorities say 51-year-old Barry Temple died at Bayhealth-Kent General Hospital in Dover after the accident, which happened Thursday morning.

Keeping tabs on Delaware's horseshoe crabs is a labor of love. The state's annual spring counts typically start in the middle of the night.