Delaware Newspaper Directory

Delaware's press is compact. The News Journal in Wilmington, published as Delaware Online, covers the whole state and the Delaware courts, and the Delaware State News in Dover covers the capital and Kent and Sussex counties. The Cape Gazette in Lewes, the Newark Post, the Dover Post, the Sussex Post, the Milford Chronicle and the Middletown Transcript cover their towns, and Delaware Public Media, WHYY and Spotlight Delaware cover state affairs online.

Delaware newspapers publish the legal notices state law requires for sheriff's sales, estates and government actions, carry obituaries for the three counties, and preserve coverage of the Court of Chancery and the Superior Court that national business readers follow.

Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.

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The News Journal covers the General Assembly, the Court of Chancery, whose corporate rulings affect companies nationwide, the Superior Court in each county and the federal court in Wilmington. The Delaware State News covers Dover, the legislature and Dover Air Force Base, and it is the only daily south of the canal. The Cape Gazette covers the beach towns and Sussex County government in detail, and the weekly Posts carry town council minutes, police reports and Sussex and Kent county council notices. The Wilmington News Journal archive reaches back to the 1800s.

The Delaware Public Archives in Dover holds Delaware newspapers on microfilm from the colonial era onward, and Delaware titles appear in Chronicling America. The University of Delaware Library holds the Wilmington papers, and the Wilmington Public Library and the Dover Public Library provide free access to the News Journal archive with a library card. The Delaware Historical Society in Wilmington holds early Wilmington titles and an obituary index.

• Delaware Public ArchivesNewspaper microfilm, state records and research services
• Chronicling America, Delaware newspapersHistoric Delaware newspapers from the Library of Congress

Delaware law requires sheriff's sale notices, estate notices, name changes, county council and town hearings and state agency notices to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and because there are only three counties, the News Journal, the State News and the Cape Gazette carry most of them. Delaware also posts state agency notices in the Register of Regulations and on the state's public meeting calendar. Obituaries run in the News Journal statewide and the State News downstate. Court coverage in the News Journal pairs with the Delaware courts' case search for the Superior Court and the Court of Common Pleas.

• Delaware Court RecordsSuperior Court, Chancery and Court of Common Pleas records
• Delaware Vital RecordsBirth, death and marriage certificates
• Delaware Genealogy SearchArchives, census and family history sources

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