AARP’s Vice President of State Advocacy Elaine Ryan visited Wilmington Friday to discuss family caregiving issues in Delaware following passage of the CARE Act last year to address some of those issues. But this week AARP also joined the list of critics of the House GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill, the American Health Care Act - voicing concerns about planned changes to Medicaid and the age-rating provision it says will raise insurances costs for those between 50-64. Delaware Public Media's Tom

In the summer of 2016 the Dover Police Department teamed up with an addiction recovery center to divert opiate users into treatment and away from crime, jail or death. Less than a year later, police departments around the First State are looking at Dover's ANGEL Program as a model they could adopt.

Throughout his campaign last year - and here at the start of his term in office - Gov. John Carney emphasized the state’s Department of Education would look much different under his watch. He's promised a shift from its regulatory role to a support role What exactly that will look like is still a bit unclear, but we do know that the person in charge of making it happen is Carney’s choice for Education Secretary – former Indian River School District superintendent Susan Bunting. Contributor Larry

Listen to this week's edition of The Green: Or listen to individual stories below:

President Trump vowed last week to make Historically Black Colleges and Universities an “absolute priority” of his administration. And now, HBCU leaders are calling on Trump to make funding for these schools a priority.

In 1999, a University of Delaware professor discovered a red dwarf star 235 trillion miles away from Earth. But little did he know that almost 20 years later, a NASA telescope would reveal seven potentially Earth-like planets surrounding that star.

In part two of our History Matters series on Delaware and the Underground Railroad, we turn to fugitive narratives - pamphlets published before, during and after the Civil War by runaway slaves or abolitionists helping them. The narratives provide first-hand accounts of what life was like for those fugitives while enslaved, during their journies to freedom, and even life after freedom.

State employees make Delaware run, doing jobs that run the gamut. But now we can add artist to that list. In our latest Arts Playlist, Delaware Division of the Arts Deputy Director Kristin Pleasanton takes our own Mark Arehart on a tour of the State Employee Art Exhibition.

Listen to this week's edition of The Green: Or listen to individual stories below:

Three years ago wasn’t the first time cancer entered the household of Gregg and Stacey Bacchieri. The Kennett Square, Pa residents had been through it before, when Stacey was diagnosed with breast cancer 13 years ago.