Delaware Politics

Delaware’s absentee and early voting numbers topped 28,000 as of Thursday at noon.

New laws take effect in Delaware, setting age limits on an increasingly popular substance and another creating a new job within the DOE.

Delaware is among approximately 20 states pushing data privacy laws forward, with newly enacted expansions to its 2023 Personal Data Privacy Act.

Leadership in Delaware's legislature voiced concerns this week over how Governor Matt Meyer created the state's Surgeon General position.

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.