Delaware News

Officials from the Delaware River and Bay Authority will next week begin delivering Thanksgiving care packages to 50 families in Cumberland and Salem counties.

TRENTON, N.J. - Volunteers say history will repeat itself despite budget cuts that threaten the annual re-enactment of George Washington crossing the Delaware River.

Several environmental groups joined together today in an effort to block the Army Corps of Engineers from deepening the Delaware River.

A decades-long dispute about whether to dig a deeper shipping channel in the Delaware River has centered on both environmental and economic concerns.

In the past couple of weeks I heard from two different Baltimore chefs that the Food Network's cooking competition show, Chopped , hosted by Ted Allen has approached them to come to New York for an interview.

Traffic on Route 80 in October. Transportation is the leading cause of carbon-emissions in the Garden State.

Plans to bring a liquefied natural gas terminal to southern New Jersey are back on the table.

New Jersey stepped up its opposition to the proposed deepening of the Delaware River today, asking to take part in a Delaware lawsuit to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project.

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Area environmental organizations are joining New Jersey and Delaware to try to stop plans to dredge and deepen the Delaware River to improve shipping.

Since then it has been embraced by businesspeople looking for a site for meetings and lunches, by tourists visiting the city's historical sites or traveling across the Delaware River to Sesame Place in Falls Township, Pa., and sports teams competing at the city's stadiums.

A Hess LNG affiliate has purchased BP's ownership interest in a possible liquefied natural gas project in Gloucester County, the company said Tuesday.

A federal magistrate has agreed to let New Jersey's governor join a lawsuit that seeks to overturn a federal ban on sports betting in New Jersey and 45 other states.

When it comes to K-12 education, New Jersey is usually A-1. The state is the nation's yearly valedictorian, or salutatorian.

It was a bright autumn day in 1777 once again Sunday as visitors to Red Bank Battlefield Park relived a key battle in the War for Independence and learned about life in Colonial times, as well.

A New Jersey woman who reported that she had been robbed at knifepoint early Tuesday was arrested after Delaware police say she made up the story in hopes of getting train fare.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine said Monday he will take legal action to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from deepening the Delaware River channel from 40 to 45 feet because the agency has not proven to state environmental regulators that the project is ecologically sound.

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine says he is disappointed that the Army Corps of Engineers plans to go ahead with plans to dredge the Delaware River shipping channel without obtaining state permits.

In the past, I have written about tragic incidents on the Delaware River. One such incident concerned the Ferryboat New Jersey.

Gary Coppola does some wiring during the installation of solar panels at the Edison Animal Shelter on Sept.

Historical communities, agricultural landscapes and recreational areas -- they can all be found along the Delaware River in Hunterdon and Mercer counties, earning the area national recognition.