Delaware Politics

Gov. Matt Meyer said he’ll finish a review of the Grant in Aid budget bill within the next week.

Local governments will have to relax their zoning laws on where cannabis businesses can set up shop, after House lawmakers successfully overrode a veto by Gov. Matt Meyer during the wee hours of morning on the last day of Delaware's legislation session.

On the last day of legislative session, Delaware lawmakers passed a group of bills that stand to set major policy for the state to regulate large energy users– with eyes on data centers.

Between the House and State senate, measures on protections for Delaware's immigrant population, and referenda reform, and regulations for gun vendors head to the governor.

Delaware's Nuclear Energy Feasibility Task Force is still tooling with its recommendations for how the state should move forward for small nuclear reactors.

Lawmakers in New Castle County are still grappling with challenges that resulted from a once in decades property reassessment, that left a substantial gap between assessment of commercial and residential properties in the northern county.

A statue of Delaware founding father Caesar Rodney faces an undefined future, once its stint as part of a display in DC for America’s semi-quincentennial ends.

The legislative package is considered the first significant change to the First State’s banking laws since 1981's Financial Center Development Act.

State Sen. Stephanie Hansen (D-Middletown) is sponsoring a bill that adds significant regulations to Delaware utilities. And two other bills she sponsored clear in house committee.

Delaware State Rep. Josue Ortega (D-Wilmington) will be investigated by the House Ethics Committee, after being accused of domestic violence last month.