Delaware News

A long chain of storms rattled across Delaware and the region on Tuesday, triggering scattered flooding and road closings and pushing the state into record rainfall for June.

DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife Mosquito Control Section is again asking the public's help in monitoring West Nile virus in Delaware by reporting sick or dead wild birds of certain species that may have contracted the virus.

Two peregrine falcon fledglings who had taken up residence on St. Georges Bridge over the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal have been reunited with their parents after a recent "crash-landing" separated them.

Help the Delaware SPCA Stuff the Van with goodies for the homeless animals in their care.

Lovely three-bedroom home in Maplewood boasts a great location and recent renovations.

The other parts of the bill, not discriminating in jobs, etc., should be passed and as a separate bill divorced from the "bathroom" part of the bill.

National Alliance on Mental Illness in Delaware Delaware welcomes Joshua Thomas-Acker, PhD as its new executive director, effective immediately.

Crude oil transfer operation being built at Delaware City Refinery as allowed under Secretary's Order 2013-A-0020 violates Russell's Peterson's landmark 1971 Coastal Zone Act Delaware and Delaware Audubon Society filed appeals with the Environmental Appeals Board and the Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board of Secretary's Order 2013-A-0020 dated ... (more)

The transgender community is often overlooked and misunderstood. As we continue to encourage civil dialogue about these issues and educate one another, understanding and acceptance of our diverse community is hastened.

Meetings begin at 6 p.m. at the following locations: * Monday, John H. Ammon Education Center Auditorium at Christiana Hospital; * Tuesday, Julie H.C. Bailey Training Center at Health and Wellness Center, 100 S. Main St., Suite 211, Smyrna; and * June 26, Brandywine Assisted Living, 21111 Arrington Drive, Selbyville.

It's only June, but Chris Bairstow is already looking forward to shoveling snow this winter.

Visitors to DNREC's website are invited to check out the second installment in the Wetlands 101 video series on YouTube's Delaware DNREC channel, produced with the Division of Watershed Stewardship's Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program.

As the News Journal's Sunday lead story made clear, crime has a high cost for us all.

The LuxInsight reports were first launched in January 2013, and covered seven major regions and 10 counties throughout Long & Foster's footprint.

Under a plan presented Monday by Gov. Jack Markell's budget staff, Delaware's three casinos would receive an $8 million bailout from the state to help them stem mounting losses from aggressive regional competition.

There is a new website that aims to help Delawareans facing foreclosure - www.DelawareHomeownerRelief.com.

First, it is clear that I would want to personally kill the criminal, a normal response, even though it is doubtful that I would actually carry out my base desire.

Mention the boundaries of Delaware and chances are the conversation will turn to the Mason-Dixon line.

Keep the flag flying and remember, above all else, what it stands for: "... the principles of freedom and the good done defending the world against fascism and Nazism during two world wars and communism during the Cold War."

In her recent Delaware Voice, Ruth Lytle-Barnaby, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Delaware, belittles former PPDE nurses Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich and Joyce Vasikonis for turning to pro-life advocacy groups like A Rose and A Prayer and Delaware Right to Life to speak up for the patients in Delaware's abortion clinics.