The Granger Collection It was a champagne day on the James River: blue sky ... they were to find the fabled Northwest Passage, a navigable route across the American continent that 17th-century ...

The Delaware is the East’s longest undammed river, a bit of wilderness that runs through heavily populated states. An annual paddle is an opportunity to explore it.

Found on Pea Patch Island in the middle of the Delaware River, Fort Delaware dates to the mid-1800s, when it was built to protect Wilmington and Philadelphia from enemy attack. It served this role ...

In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at a lawsuit that ...

Eleven dams were removed from the Delaware River last year, a move expected to improve conditions for local wildlife and ...

President Trump imposed tariffs, a tax on imported goods, aiming to boost US manufacturing. Delaware's major trade partners are affected by the tariffs, creating uncertainty for companies like ...

The push for one Iowa landowner to farm a designated wetland is likely to affect neighbors downstream. And a legal weight ...

For the Delaware River watershed, one of the biggest impacts could be the scarcity of funds to implement new improvements to ...

Eleven dams in the Delaware River Basin were removed last year, in a move that advocacy groups say will improve conditions for wildlife.

The University of Delaware is committed to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research and service. From its roots as a private academy in 1743, the institution today is a ...