Tom Byrne

The Public Education Funding Commission meets again on Monday to continue its work to deliver a more equitable state education funding formula.The Commission is expected to consider multiple models for a new formula as it moves forward this year. Gov. Matt Meyer is pushing for quick movement on this effort and has championed replacing the current unit count system, which he has characterized as very outdated.This week, Delaware Public Media’s Tom Byrne sat down with Meyer’s Dept. of Education Secretary Cindy Marten to discuss where she and the Meyer Administration stand on this process and the future of education funding in the First State.

Democrats hold on to a pair of State Senate seats up for grabs in special elections Saturday.

Delawareans are digging out from the latest snowstorm of 2025. And again, shovels and plows will be working harder in the lower half of the state.

The Head of School at St. Anne's Episcopal School is arrested on over two dozen child pornography charges.

Delaware joins a group of states suing the Trump administration over its effort to pause federal payments for grants and other programs.

Delaware recently signed an agreement to lease land at 3Rs Beach in Delaware Seashore State Park to US Wind to serve as the power access point for its planned Maryland offshore wind project. While that project has received all necessary federal and Delaware permits, Sussex County denied a conditional use permit for the substation and the project faces a pair of lawsuits targeting the permitting process and the environmental impacts.These flashpoints and the larger discussion of the potential benefits and drawbacks of offshore wind raise questions: how well do Delawareans understand offshore wind and how can that understanding be improved?This week, Delaware Public Media’s Tom Byrne sat down with Kathryn Lienhard – an Offshore Wind Energy Research Associate for Delaware Sea Grant's Marine Advisory Service – to discuss offshore wind literacy and the debate over offshore wind in the First State.

Some Georgetown residents were advised to shelter-in-place Wednesday night for about 2 hours following a hazardous materials incident at the Perdue chicken processing plant in town.

Central and Southern Delaware are seeing the highest snow totals from Monday's storm.

School districts up and down the First State are closed Monday as Delaware awaits a winter storm slated to arrive Monday and expcted bring up to 10 inches to some areas.

Gov. John Carney announced Saturday night that Cerron Cade is on paid administrative leave due to a personal legal matter.