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Newark (/ ˈ nj uː ɑːr k / NEW-ark) [note 1] is a small city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.It is located 12 miles (19 km) west-southwest of Wilmington.According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. [5]
The Government of Delaware encompasses the administrative structure of the US state of Delaware as established by its 1897 constitution. Analogously to the US federal government , it is composed of three branches: executive , legislative , and judicial .
Before 1776, Delaware was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, administered by colonial governors in Pennsylvania as the "Lower Counties on Delaware".. In 1776, soon after Delaware and the other Thirteen Colonies declared independence from Britain, the state adopted its first state constitution.
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex).As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, [1] making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the state's population of 989,948.
The Delaware Transit Corporation, operating as DART First State, is the only public transportation system that operates throughout the U.S. state of Delaware.DART First State provides local and inter-county bus service throughout the state and also funds commuter rail service along SEPTA Regional Rail's Wilmington/Newark Line serving the northern part of the state.
In 2016, months before the end of former President Barack Obama’s second term in office, the city of Newark, N.J., and the Department of Justice reached a deal to overhaul policing in the city ...
Following the English conquest of 1664, all of the land on the western side of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay was governed as part of the New York Colony and administered from the town of New Castle.
The Newark Transit Hub is located in the eastern part of the city of Newark in northern New Castle County, Delaware a short distance east the downtown area and the University of Delaware campus. The bus terminal is situated north of East Delaware Avenue, which carries eastbound Delaware Route 273 , and south of East Main Street, which carries ...