Delaware News

Delaware Technical & Community College leaders presented the zero-growth budget requested by state officials Thursday, but President Orlando George warned that absorbing greater cuts might lead to eliminating class sections for courses that already have long waiting lists The Office of Management and Budget asked Cabinet departments and state ...

Delaware is the only state without an NPS unit. A bill recently introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to fix that.

President Obama's 2008 campaign manager says the conventional wisdom on Obama that he's governing as an incrementalist rather than a visionary leader is "ridiculous" and won't hold up if Congress passes health care and energy-saving legislation.

Twenty-three airmen left New Castle on Friday, aboard a C-130, and another twenty-four departed on Saturday.

As flu season makes the rounds, some Delawareans are more vulnerable than others.

Recently, the State of Delaware became the first state in the nation to host a U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service offshore renewable energy Task Force meeting.

Attorney General Beau Biden went to federal court Friday to block the Army Corps of Engineers from deepening a section of the Delaware River within Delaware's borders without state permits.

Delaware Police issued 53 tickets last week to state drivers for not wearing seat-belts. Office of Highway Safety spokesperson Andrea Summers says that brings the total number of seat belt citations to 595 since the OHS kicked off it's safety initiative last August.

Delaware schoolchildren will begin receiving free swine flu vaccine next week, though state officials still are determining how they will prioritize distribution of the voluntary vaccinations.

Delaware, the first US state, is the only state without a national park. That does not set well with Delaware's US Senator Tom Carper , who has introduced a bill that would designate virtually the entire state as a national park.

Dean C. Reid has resigned as administrator of the Delaware Veterans Home in Milford, about five months after a Sunday News Journal story exposed problems there.

Delaware Public Health Officials have confirmed the state's first Swine Flu death.

The consumer group, Families U-S-A is out with a report that shows approximately 8-thousand 8-hundred Delawareans lost their jobs in 2009 .

Delaware came up short this year in the annual grapple for federal beach replenishment funds, a victim of a sharpening debate over taxpayer spending to repair the ocean's ceaseless attacks on shorelines.

The following roads have been closed because of flooding, the Delaware Department of Transportation reports this morning: New Castle County Del.

DOVER -- A recent study has found that more Delawareans are choosing to live a healthy, smoke-free lifestyle.

According to the Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, which is an ongoing telephone-based survey of adult Delawareans and is run by the University of Delaware, cigarette smoking among adults in Delaware is at its lowest level since 1982.

Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Castle announced Tuesday he will run for the U.S. Senate seat Democrat Joe Biden left to become vice president.

A Wilmington woman is charged with leaving her son in a car while she gambled at Delaware Park.

Shoppers and crafters look forward to the Christmas crafts season. Craft shows are held all over Delaware, in fire halls, churches, community centers and schools.