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The Bud and Bug Festival marks 50 years since elementary school students help make the ladybug Delaware's state bug
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Delaware’s Office of Highway Safety is using April’s National Distracted Driving Awareness Month to focus on texting while driving.
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Delaware lawmakers introduce a bill to allow more than one mobile sports betting option in the state.
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Robert Kirkwood and Peter Jaquett were more than just contemporaries serving in the Delaware Continental Regiment during the American Revolution, they were close ‘battle buddies’ who fought alongside each other for nearly eight years.To document their time together on and off the battlefield, Delaware Air National Guard and U.S. Air Force veteran Brigadier General Kennard Wiggins Jr. wrote “Delaware Patriot Heroes.”In this edition of History Matters, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon sits down with Brigadier General ‘Ken’ Wiggins for a closer look at the intertwined lives of Kirkwood and Jaquett.
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The University of Delaware hires its first ever women’s ice hockey coach.
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The start of spring means the return of farmers markets and roadside stands across the state.
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The Delaware Open Space Program is acquiring three parcels of land to add 275 acres to White Clay Creek State Park.
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Famed astronomer Carl Sagan once said 'You have to know the past to understand the present,’ but what if some of that past is lost to the passage of time?In their new book "Lost Delaware," former First State journalists Rachel Kipp and Dan Shortridge shine a light on dozens of long-forgotten pieces of Delaware history relegated to memories and lore until now.In this edition of History Matters, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon sits down with Kipp and Shortridge to talk about "Lost Delaware” and the parts of First State history that may not be getting their due.
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