First State Focus

The Civic League of New Castle County argued top state officials created an air of impropriety by withholding details of a 2023 embezzlement.

Route 1 at the Indian River Inlet is a direct route to medical facilities. The road has been flooded several times in previous months.

Retiring state Rep. Paul Baumbach has pushed for medical aid in dying legislation since 2015. Gov. Carney said he was “morally opposed” to it becoming law.

The school argues its charter means it is not subject to some state laws and efforts to force it to be transparent.

Delaware is the lowest-lying state in the U.S., leaving it vulnerable to the effects of climate change, lawmakers and advocates say.

Val Longhurst’s 20-year run in the state House is over. The first female speaker in state history lost to WFP-backed Kamela Smith.

Gov. John Carney was term-limited from serving as governor again. He already served in Congress and as the state’s lieutenant governor.

Area Delaware candidates visited a Wilmington polling location on the last early voting day to greet supporters and monitor for voting irregularities.

There is no Republican challenger, so whoever wins the primary election will be the next mayor of Wilmington.

The Delaware Department of Elections said about 750 voters had incorrect party affiliations due to DMV “glitch.” Some say voters were unable to vote.

Pennsylvania led a coalition of 30 states to argue Delaware was improperly keeping abandoned checks drawn in other states in its general fund.

Relations between the Christina board president and the district’s long-time lawyer broke down after the attorney was accused of leaking to the media.

The three Democratic candidates and one of the two Republicans running for U.S. House squared off in a debate Tuesday night.

The new school in the city's East Side neighborhood, which replaces Bancroft School, is named in honor of Maurice Pritchett, who was principal at Bancroft from 1975 to 2005.

Delaware’s delegates say the visible leadership role for Black women across the convention is the result of decades of work in their communities.