Delaware Government News

For the second time this year, the Delaware Supreme Court has found that a person legally can be removed from the state's sex offender registry -- implicitly finding that the registry is not a permanent life sentence without exception and that the registry statute does not overpower all other state laws.

To give them money ! The Internal Revenue Service is "having a time" delivering some tax refunds.

DOVER -- Conservation organizations urged the state Monday to increase funding for farmland preservation, saying that the decline in real estate values presents a golden opportunity to keep Delaware green.

Delaware public health officials today reported the state's fourth death from swine flu.

The number of Delawareans receiving food stamps has jumped by 27.5 percent in the past year, another sign of a recession cutting deeper into household budgets for the most basic of necessities.

NEWARK , Del.- Delaware's one-time tax amnesty program is anticipated to net more than $22 million for the state, Gov.

During the week of October 25th through the 31st, the number of H1N1 cases in the first state jumped up from 377 to 450, bringing the total number of confirmed Swine Flu cases in Delaware to 1,399 since October 4th.

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

I was pleased to hear Delaware's Elections Commissioner, Elaine Manlove, on NPR's all Things Considered this evening.

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

As the seasons begin to change from summer to fall, we draw closer to the annual flu season.

Delaware stands to collect $18 million from its just-completed tax amnesty program, $8 million more than estimated when the amnesty began two months ago.

LEWES - 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.

DOVER , Del.- Delaware's Division of Public Health announced Wednesday that the death of an 80-year-old Sussex County woman was related to H1N1 flu.

NCCo gun laws now in line with state, U.S. New Castle County's gun laws now mesh with regulations in force at the state and national level, at least when it comes to emergency situations.

Cape Henlopen School District officials say H1N1 flu vaccines will be in schools soon.

The Delaware Cancer Consortium recently announced it received the 2009 Exemplary State Comprehensive Cancer Control Implementation Award.

A 35-year-old Kent County woman Thursday became the first person in the state to die of complications related to swine flu, according to Delaware's Division of Public Health.

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 .

The Delaware Medical Examiner's Office's 48 employees account for about 1 percent of the more than 4,500 employees of the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services.