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The Office of the Marijuana Commissioner Has Published the Official Proposed Regulations.
Date Posted: May 2, 2024

Nominate a Young Environmentalist for DNREC Awards
Date Posted: May 2, 2024

First employers sign onto transformative Delaware EARNS retirement benefit
Date Posted: May 2, 2024

Governor Carney Announces Delaware’s General Obligation Bonds Again Earn Triple-A Ratings and Attract Excellent Pricing
Date Posted: May 1, 2024

Northeast Insurance Departments Highlight Lyme Awareness Month
Date Posted: May 1, 2024

DOJ secures a murder conviction for violent gun offender
Date Posted: April 30, 2024

Delaware Forest Service Celebrates Arbor Day and Poster Contest Winners at Abbott’s Mill
Date Posted: April 30, 2024

Delaware Expands Electric Vehicle Rebates to Include Used Models Starting May 1
Date Posted: April 30, 2024

New Enforcement for Traffic Safety of Motorists Around Commercial Motor Vehicles
Date Posted: April 29, 2024

DOJ secures guilty plea for violent gun offender in cold case murder
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DNREC Reopens Mulberry Landing Boat Ramp After Parking Lot Expansion
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OSHA Delaware Unveils SafeDE on Worker’s Memorial Day, Pioneering a Safer Future for Workers
Date Posted: April 29, 2024

DSB Highlights Activities for National Small Business Week/Month 2024
Date Posted: April 26, 2024

Apply Now for Nonprofit Security Grant Program
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DNREC, Center for Inland Bays to Partner on ‘Water Family Fest’ and Native Plant Sale Saturday, May 4
Date Posted: April 26, 2024

Charter School of Wilmington Wins 2024 Delaware Envirothon Championship
Date Posted: April 25, 2024

DSHA Celebrates $125 Million In Funding To Help Delawareans Achieve Homeownership
Date Posted: April 25, 2024

DNREC to Offer Training for Volunteer Monitors of Delaware’s Beach-Nesting Birds
Date Posted: April 25, 2024

Delaware Tutoring Efforts Recognized by National Learning Collaborative
Date Posted: April 25, 2024

DNREC Launches Online Flood Planning Tool
Date Posted: April 24, 2024

Kids Invited to Cast a Line at Youth Fishing Tournament
Date Posted: April 23, 2024

Delaware Officials Provide Latest Updates, Underscore Urgency Regarding Substance Use Disorder Outcomes in Delaware
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

DSB Partners with SBDC to Support Small Business Loan Program
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

Governor Carney Announces Opening of Application Period for Student Representative on State Board of Education
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

Delaware Forest Service Joins Daughters of the American Revolution to Establish Memorial Forest in Sussex County
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

Delaware Division of the Arts and The Biggs Museum of American Art Open Award Winners XXIV Exhibition
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

Delaware State Housing Authority Welcomes Emily Cunningham As Chief Of Staff
Date Posted: April 22, 2024

DPH Hosts Family Assistance Center Emergency Response Full-Scale Exercise
Date Posted: April 19, 2024

Attorney General Kathy Jennings supports new rules targeting money laundering
Date Posted: April 19, 2024

Delaware Division of the Arts Announces 13th Annual State Employee Art Exhibition Winners
Date Posted: April 19, 2024

NASCAR Driver Ross Chastain Partners with the Delaware Office of Highway Safety for 2024 Events
Date Posted: April 18, 2024

Three Schools Earn Delaware Purple Star Recognition
Date Posted: April 18, 2024

Wilmington’s Cab Calloway School of the Arts Crowned Junior Solar Sprint Champion
Date Posted: April 18, 2024

State Honors Top High School Seniors as 2024 Secretary of Education Scholars
Date Posted: April 18, 2024

DHSS Announces Health Fund Applications Due July 15
Date Posted: April 17, 2024

Delaware State Housing Authority Announces The Launch Of Its New And Improved Website
Date Posted: April 17, 2024

Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: April 16, 2024

Delaware State Fire Commission Welcomes Mental Health and Wellness Administrator.
Date Posted: April 16, 2024

DelDOT Highlights National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week “Become a hero toward zero, their lives depend on it.”
Date Posted: April 16, 2024

The Delaware Office of Highway Safety Increases Enforcement for National Distracted Driving Awareness Month
Date Posted: April 15, 2024

Suspended Trooper faces prison after pleading guilty to six charges, including two felonies
Date Posted: April 12, 2024

Lt. Governor, School Districts, Philanthropist Launch Monetary Awards Program for Black Students
Date Posted: April 11, 2024

Attorney General Jennings obtains victory for manufactured housing residents
Date Posted: April 11, 2024

Delaware Cancer Consortium Hosts 2024 Biennial Retreat
Date Posted: April 10, 2024

$100,000 Grant Announced To Support Eviction Prevention Services In Delaware
Date Posted: April 9, 2024

Final NorthPak defendant convicted of two murders, more than 50 felonies
Date Posted: April 8, 2024

DHSS Seeks Comment on State Plan on Aging at Public Hearings This Month
Date Posted: April 5, 2024

Delaware Advances Toward 1 Million Tree Planting Goal
Date Posted: April 5, 2024

Treasurer Davis Encourages Delawareans to Prioritize Saving
Date Posted: April 5, 2024

Delaware Overdose Deaths Decrease for the First Time in Decade
Date Posted: April 4, 2024

State Offers Support for Students Applying for Financial Aid
Date Posted: April 4, 2024

Governor Carney, Secretary Garvin Celebrate Expansion of White Clay Creek State Park
Date Posted: April 3, 2024

State Agencies Join Forces Against Illegal Trash Dumping
Date Posted: April 2, 2024

DNREC to Offer Earth Day Beach Cleanup, Kids Crafts
Date Posted: April 2, 2024

Future Health Care Workers Win State Awards
Date Posted: April 2, 2024

The Mezzanine Gallery to exhibit “Within the Intimate Realm” by E. Schwinn
Date Posted: April 1, 2024

31-year DOC veteran named Warden of Howard R. Young Correctional Institution
Date Posted: March 28, 2024

Scotton Landing Boat Ramp Reopens for Spring
Date Posted: March 27, 2024

Delaware Teachers Named Finalists for National Mathematics, Science Teaching Award
Date Posted: March 27, 2024

Walk Down Memory Lane at Delaware Public Archives
Date Posted: March 27, 2024

DE Auditor Issues Special Report on Unemployment Insurance
Date Posted: March 26, 2024

DMV on the Go Gears Up for 2024 Season
Date Posted: March 26, 2024

Two Students to Represent Delaware at National Science Camp
Date Posted: March 26, 2024

Department of Correction Expands Enhanced Mail Screening System To All State Prison Facilities
Date Posted: March 26, 2024

2024 Lt. Governor’s Challenge Seeks Applicants for Wellness Leader Awards
Date Posted: March 25, 2024

51st Annual DETSA Conference Celebrates Young Leaders, STEM and Innovation
Date Posted: March 25, 2024

DNREC Announces ‘Take a Kid Fishing!’ Spring Events
Date Posted: March 22, 2024

Bill Introduced to Protect Entities Serving the Legal Marijuana Industry
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

DNREC to Host Virtual Meeting on Deauville Beach Management Transition and New Entrance Fee Proposal
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

Delaware Inducts Three Farm Families into Century Farm Program
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

DPH Observes World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

DNREC, Kent Conservation District Offer Chesapeake Bay Implementation Grant Funding for Septic Tank Pump-outs
Date Posted: March 21, 2024

DNREC to Seek Community Water Project Proposals
Date Posted: March 20, 2024

Selbyville Fire
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Gov. Carney Announce Further Child Care Investments and Initiatives
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Middle and High School Students Invited to Compete in Digital Mapping Technology Contest
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Emergency Sirens Test on April 2 and Potassium Iodide Event on April 4 in Middletown
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Governor Carney Seeks Applications for Governor’s Summer Fellowship Program
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

Delaware to Open Upstate Trout Season With Youth-Only Fishing Day Set for April 6
Date Posted: March 19, 2024

First State Food System Program Opens Third Grant Application Cycle
Date Posted: March 18, 2024

Cynthia Karnai Confirmed As Director Of Delaware State Housing Authority
Date Posted: March 18, 2024

Governor’s Outstanding Volunteer Service Award Honorees to Be Recognized at April 4 Ceremony
Date Posted: March 18, 2024

DNREC’s DuPont Nature Center to Reopen April 3
Date Posted: March 18, 2024

Georgetown Fire
Date Posted: March 17, 2024

AG Jennings’ statement on Senate passage of Senate Bill 2
Date Posted: March 14, 2024

Lt. Gov. Hall-Long Applauds Passage of Senate Bill 2(S) Gun Safety Legislation
Date Posted: March 14, 2024

Governor Carney’s Statement on the Passage of Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 2
Date Posted: March 14, 2024

Volunteers Sought to Join Concord Pond Cleanup April 13
Date Posted: March 14, 2024

Prosecutors secure conviction against Jordan Ellerbe’s murderer
Date Posted: March 14, 2024

Governor Carney’s Statement on Senate Confirmation of Cynthia Karnai as Director of State Housing Authority
Date Posted: March 13, 2024

State of Delaware Seeking Third Consecutive Year of Record Hiring: Job Fair for Students and Skilled Workers
Date Posted: March 13, 2024

Nominations Open for State of Delaware Compassionate Champion Awards
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DOJ secures over seven life sentences, habitual offender status for Keith Gibson after violent killing spree
Date Posted: March 13, 2024

Delaware Department of Agriculture Opens Request for Applications for Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program
Date Posted: March 12, 2024

With gun safety in Court, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania AGs stand for common sense
Date Posted: March 11, 2024

The Office of the Marijuana Commissioner released additional sections of the informal draft regulations for review.
Date Posted: March 11, 2024

Lt. Governor, Partners Raise Awareness of Infant Formula Distribution Program
Date Posted: March 11, 2024

Severe Weather Awareness Week March 11-15, 2024
Date Posted: March 9, 2024

DPH Reports High Levels of Lead in Certain Cinnamon Products
Date Posted: March 8, 2024

Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: March 8, 2024

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New Castle County Council finally votes on data center regulations

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March 11, 2026

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New Castle County Council finally votes on data center regulations

New Castle County approved data center rules that will not apply to Project Washington.
It came after hours of public comment and council compromise.
The ordinance restricts water usage and creates buffers between data centers and residential areas.

New Castle County Council approved regulations on the development of data centers Tuesday night.

They won’t apply to the massive proposed data center complex of Project Washington, which continues to fight through state-level objections.

The County Council meeting was standing room only. The crowd of both construction workers supporting the legislation and community members opposing it spread into the lobby of the Louis Redding City/County Building.

The ordinance requires data centers to have a closed-loop water cooling system to limit its water use and creates a 1,000-foot buffer between data centers and residential areas, with an exception for 500-foot buffers if a development can follow noise regulations. It also defaults to existing county limits on noise and lighting levels.

A unanimously approved amendment from Pike Creek representative Timothy Sheldon clarified that these new regulations count for applications submitted after this gets adopted and approved by County Executive Marcus Henry, unless an existing applicant requests to follow these new regulations.

It passed with 12 ‘yes’ votes, with Councilmember Jea P. Street absent from the vote itself.

This was the only amendment left standing. An amendment from Janet Kilpatrick, representing Hockessin, would have grandfathered existing data centers from the ordinance, clarifying that any pending proposal in the county wouldn’t be affected. Another amendment, from Claymont representative John Cartier, would’ve made the ordinance retroactive to count for Project Washington and others. Both were withdrawn at the meeting in a council compromise.

Project Washington’s plans north of Delaware City kicked local data center dialogue into high gear in 2025. The data center project would include 11 two-story data center buildings surrounded by electrical fields on two large land parcels accessible by Hamburg Road, Governor Lea Road and River Road.

It would be 6 million square feet of data center running 24 hours a day, seven days week.

The project’s developer, Starwood Digital Ventures, pledges job creation and and a colossal injection of tax revenue into the coffers of the county and Colonial School District. They said this will bring about 3,500 construction jobs and retain 700 permanent jobs to keep the facility up and running.

County Council member Dave Carter has spent months drafting the regulations that were voted on during this meeting. This is substitute number three on the original bill from August 2025, including compromises on noise and lighting restrictions. Carter wants sensible data center regulation in the county, and he told Delaware Online/The News Journal in March he thinks Project Washington is a “bad deal” for the state.

He thinks the potential demand on the state’s already strained electrical bid will hurt residents’ bills. He also disputes the developers’ promises on permanent jobs and tax revenue.

“We just have to really be cognizant and thoughtful and make sure that we are ensuring that we protect our communities, and that we manage these things well if they are coming,” Carter said at the meeting.

It hasn’t been an easy sell to the rest of County Council. Council member Janet Kilpatrick, who represents Hockessin, wanted consistent regulations on lighting and noise levels to avoid scaring off potential business. Data centers have sprung up across the country as the highly demanding AI industry exploded in popularity.

“If we don’t have some stability, these people are not going to be able to go through a lender to get money, and so that means that they leave, and I’m sure that there’s a group of people in this room that would love to see them leave, but that’s not how we build economic development,” she said at the meeting. “Part of what we need, in my mind, in economic development is that we have a stable land use code.”

Although this doesn’t apply to the controversial Project Washington, County Council will still have a say on the re-zoning of half of the project’s land. The County Board of Adjustment will also have to approve its electrical switch station, Culver said.

At the meeting, residents showed up with mainly negative comments for Project Washington. But, members of trade unions showed up in support of the project’s potential to create construction jobs.

Starwood Digital Ventures will continue to move through the approval process with no changes to Project Washington, according to Jim Lamb, who is handling media for the project.

“We’re really happy there’s a consensus within the council and it’s a really great opportunity for the residents of New Castle County,” Lamb said Tuesday night.

Now this goes to County Executive Marcus Henry’s office, who can sign or veto these regulations.

Half of Project Washington’s proposed land still needs a re-zone, which requires council approval. The project was stifled by DNREC, who ruled the proposal’s size, use and backup diesel generators violate the decades-old Coastal Zone Act.

Starwood Digital Ventures disagrees, and filed and appeal, saying the state environmental agency didn’t classify the project correctly and said it “solely focuses on alleged environmental risk and worst-case emissions, and does not fairly weigh or explain these countervailing factors in light of regulating criteria.”

The appeal’s hearing is in Dover and begins on March 24.

Shane Brennan covers Wilmington and other Delaware issues. Reach out with ideas, tips or feedback at slbrennan@delawareonline.com.

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Coast Guard Responding to Large Barge Fire in Delaware Bay

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March 10, 2026

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Coast Guard Responding to Large Barge Fire in Delaware Bay

The U.S. Coast Guard and multiple partner agencies are responding to a barge fire in Delaware Bay on Tuesday after a tug reported that the vessel it was towing had caught fire.

According to the Coast Guard, watchstanders at Sector Delaware Bay received a call at approximately 8:20 a.m. from the tug Douglas J, reporting that the barge under tow was on fire. The barge was reportedly carrying scrap metal.

Authorities are towing the burning barge to a position about two miles off Maurice River Cove, New Jersey, in an effort to move the incident away from the main shipping channel while firefighting operations continue.

The Coast Guard has established a safety zone and issued a Broadcast Notice to Mariners as crews work to contain the fire and reduce potential hazards to vessel traffic in the busy port complex. Multiple fire departments have deployed fireboats to assist with suppression efforts.

No injuries have been reported and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Responders from Coast Guard Station Philadelphia, Coast Guard Station Cape May, and Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City have been deployed to assist. Partner agencies on scene include the Wilmington Fire Department, Delaware City Fire Department, Philadelphia Fire Department, New Jersey Office of Emergency Management, and Delaware Emergency Management.

The incident follows another major barge fire in the Delaware Bay region in 2022, when a barge carrying scrap household appliances burned for approximately 26 hours in what officials described as the largest firefighting operation in Delaware state history.

Response operations for the current fire remain ongoing.

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DMV in Minquadale, Delaware reopening months after trooper’s death

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March 10, 2026

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DMV in Minquadale, Delaware reopening months after trooper’s death

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 9:34AM

MINQUADALE, Del. (WPVI) — The DMV in Wilmington, Delaware is reopening at 8a.m. Tuesday.

This comes after the deadly shooting of State Trooper Matthew “Ty” Snook, 34, in December 2025.

A man walked into the facility and shot and killed Snook.

The DMV said service at the Wilmington location will be by appointment only for now. The Delaware City, Dover, and Georgetown DMV locations will continue to offer walk-in service to customers.

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