Delaware News

SMYRNA -- Dereke Moore's Facebook page is filled with smiling faces, friends who list Smyrna High School and Sussex Technical High School as their connection online.

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.

State Public Health officials report a fourth death in Delaware related to swine flu.

About 400 people turned out Saturday night to hear a message of hope from the Rev.

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.