The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held hearings Wednesday on a bill to combat the opioid crisis. Jennifer Donahue from the Delaware Office of Child Advocate testified.

After years of crumbling, the historic Forwood School, a landmark in central Brandywine Hundred since 1799, will soon be tumbling … all the way to the ground, and then it will rise again.

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The University of Delaware Journalism Program’s speaker series – The Front Page Café - returned to the Deer Park Tavern in Newark earlier this month. The latest guest to visit the Deer Park Tavern in Newark was documentary photographer Tristan Spinski – a UD alum and son of the late Victor Spinski, a UD professor of ceramics.

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When spring break arrives, college students tend to escape toward warmer climates and to shirk anything that seems like work. It might be said that some would rather get hammered than swing one. So it’s fair to ask: Why would a dozen students from California State University at San Marcos, just a half-hour drive north of San Diego, decide to spend a week in northern Delaware, rehabbing homes for Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County , especially as the area staggered through its fourth nor

"Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality,” is the name of a new book from Delaware’s own Sarah McBride. Sarah says the book is about her own journey as a transgender woman.

Man-made barriers like dams help divert water and prevent flooding in the First State. Many of them were also built as part of historic mill race ponds. Some of them in the Inland Bays watershed, however, create a challenge for American eels trying to make their way to a freshwater habitat this time of year. Scientists from the Center for the Inland Bays have been experimenting with various devices to help eels bypass the dams.

For Dori Schuster, shopping is one part necessity, one part recreation, and one part social opportunity. With multiple super centers, the Christiana retail hub fills all three requirements. In Delaware, Schuster, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, finds tax-free bargains for her family. She enjoys a break at restaurants. And Christiana is midway between her home and her parents’ house in Maryland, an ideal spot to get together.

Gov. John Carney signed legislation last year creating the state office of Human Resources and the Division of Diversity. It was a response to multiple state agencies failing an independent review of their hiring practices and workplace inclusion. In December, Carney appointed longtime Human Resources specialist Keith Hunt the state’s Chief Diversity Officer. His job is to lead efforts in defining and cultivating equity, diversity, and inclusion throughout the state Executive Branch. Delaware