Delaware City News

Philadelphia's hottest big band, the Jump City Jazz Orchestra, announces it's 2008 summer tour.

The gray battleship USS New Jersey loomed above the schoolchildren as they craned their necks to see it on the Delaware River in Camden, N.J., its massive 106-ton gun barrels -- nine of them -- jutting in a ...

Bridge repairs will close Del. 9 south of Port Penn and Augustine Beach for several weeks beginning Monday, Delaware Department of Transportation officials announced Thursday.

Delaware's most direct attempt yet to counter global warming was signed into law Monday afternoon, allowing the state to cap -- and eventually cut -- carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Delaware State Police say three men are being charged with stealing about $9,000 in copper wire from a contractor working at a school near Delaware City, and from the school.

One person died when a sport utility vehicle crashed west of Delaware City late Monday.

Pennsylvania and the Army Corps of Engineers agreed on Monday to pay for deepening the Delaware River's 102-mile main shipping channel, reigniting a decades-old debate over the project.

One person was killed in the crash of a sport-utility vehicle west of Delaware City late Monday.

A one-vehicle accident on Cox Neck Road claims the life of a Delaware City man. 21-year-old Kyle Bowers was thrown from the SUV he was driving Monday at about 11 p.m. State Police say the vehicle drifted off ...

Delaware State Police said one person was killed in a one-car crash late Monday night.

A dairy barn at Emerson Farm on Jamison Corner Road caught fire on Monday at 1:30 p.m., causing what the Delaware State Fire Marshall's Office estimates to be more than $1 million in damages.

Seasonal police officers for the Middletown Police Department graduated from a week-long training session in New Castle on May 19.

Delaware State Parks and Crabby Dick's Restaurant invite the public to a special ghostly event from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. to watch SciFi Channel's "The Ghost Hunters" mid-season finale on Wednesday, June 18, in ...

Delaware's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the owners of the Delaware City oil refinery in an insurance lawsuit involving the deaths of two workers.

The U.S. economy continued to stagger toward a recession Friday with a brutal one-two punch: the largest monthly jump in unemployment rates in 22 years and a record surge in oil prices.

Fort Delaware school hosts re-enactors By EDWARD L. KENNEY * The News Journal * June 8, 2008 They say an army travels on its stomach.

For the past month, a seat on Delaware City Council has sat empty. But members of the community so far have shown little to no interest in filling it.

Two of the Minner administration's flagship environmental bills cleared a Senate panel Wednesday and moved toward a floor vote, despite objections from leading citizen groups.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. John Carney on Monday outlined his environmental priorities, ranging from creating programs to make developing land outside growth zones more costly to a plan to step ...

Delaware's participation in the nation's first regional effort to control greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system probably won't include one of the state's biggest polluters.