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    An aerial shot of Ocean City, Md. near the inlet, showing the Atlantic Ocean at right, the beach center and the city at left.
    Ocean City, others sue federal government over offshore wind project
    The tourist town’s lawsuit, filed Friday, comes after months of threats and as seaside communities in other parts of the East Coast have waged an offensive against a nascent U.S. offshore wind industry.
    Mason Hallock, a commercial fisherman from Edgewater, wears his passion for rockfish on his arm. He came to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meeting on Oct. 23, 2024 in Annapolis hoping to get a feel for what's ahead.
    We all like a taste of rockfish. Regulators are taking steps to make sure everyone gets a bite.
    The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a special meeting in December to change the season for catching rockfish, catch limits and size restrictions, or some combination of all three.
    Victoria Richardson plays with her daughter Khalani, 1, and  son Zakari, 3, who both live with her.
    These kids have never done drugs. They’re still being treated for addiction.
    Opioids have devastated not just individuals in the rural Cecil County, but impacted children so heavily that officials are now treating addiction as a family affair.
    Amornrat Hedden and her son, Ayden, saw the northern lights from a Cessna 172.
    A $100 Groupon got this mom and son a bird’s-eye view of the northern lights
    As she stared at the screen of her camera, then at the sky, she began to cry. She was almost in a dream state.
    An installation view of Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens' "Fragile Beauty: Art of the Ocean" show in Washington, D.C.
    5 must-see museum shows this month
    Five museum exhibitions across the region — from Washington, D.C. to Easton to Baltimore — purposefully blur boundaries between art and craft, BmoreArt writes.
    Artist Katherine Fahey became obsessed with a long-ago colony of black cats on Poplar Island, located on the Chesapeake Bay.
    100s of black cats roamed a Chesapeake Bay island. Then they disappeared.
    Charles Carroll III gathered hundreds of black cats on a Chesapeake Bay island to create a fur farm in the 1840s. Where did they all go?
    Brown Boobies sit on a port hand navigation buoy in the Chesapeake Bay near Rock Hall. A colony of more than a dozen boobies, which are normally found in the tropics, has been drawing birders onto the bay for much of the summer.
    Rare brown boobies bewitch Baltimore birders
    Brown boobies, rare birds native to the tropics, are getting comfortable on buoys in the Chesapeake.
    Gavin Knupp's mother, Tiffany Knupp, fixes and adds things to his memorial on the side of the service road where the hit-and-run took place last summer.
    Gavin Knupp’s mother reaches agreement with prosecutors on foundation embezzlement charges
    Tiffany Knupp will serve a year of unsupervised probation, pay $6,500 restitution and resign from the foundation.
    Access to the ocean is currently unavailable at the Assateague Island National Seashore.
    Want one last swim this summer? Beaches reopen after medical waste washed ashore
    Ocean City Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald said in a statement Friday evening that the water is safe for swimming and surfing.
    More medical waste has washed up on shore in Ocean City, as well as on Assateague Island.
    Syringes, hygiene products found among tide of medical waste on Maryland beaches
    Medical waste and debris continued to wash up on beaches in Maryland, and officials say they will prohibit swimming as they investigate.
    Mandy Gordon of Cumberland pulls her wagon full of food she received from Western Maryland Food Bank.
    Rural Marylanders faced more food insecurity this summer
    Food insecurity in rural Maryland has been especially pronounced this summer, local advocates say. Low-income families are grappling with soaring grocery prices and unusually high temperatures that hit at the same time as federal reductions in food assistance programs.
    Ocean City firefighters, EMS clinicians and the Ocean City Police Department were on the scene of a serious motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian and tram near Dorchester Street and the Boardwalk. A portion of the Boardwalk was closed on Aug. 20, 2024 during the investigation. (Ocean City Fire Department)
    Ocean City suspends boardwalk tram after 2-year-old fatally struck
    Police said the 2-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, was struck by a tram on the boardwalk Tuesday a little after 8 p.m.
    Perdue products sit in a poultry section of a supermarket in Palisades Park, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024.
    Perdue recalls 167,000 pounds of chicken nuggets over reports of metal wire
    The Perdue Foods recall comes after some customers reported finding metal wire embedded in the products.
    Baltimore assistant sheriff arrested for alleged DUI in Ocean City
    Nicholas Bendy was arrested allegedly for driving under the influence after an Ocean City police officer saw him speeding and changing lanes.
    Perched on a wooden platform built to encourage nesting, a female osprey guards two chicks. In the upper right, a camera helps researchers learn which types of fish the adult birds bring to their young.
    Chesapeake Bay ospreys struggling to reproduce, inflaming fishery debate
    This year, researchers have been monitoring more than 600 breeding pairs of osprey in a dozen locations as part of a multipronged effort to assess the birds’ breeding success around the Chesapeake Bay.
    Perdue to pay almost $12 million in settlement with Maryland over air pollution
    Perdue has agreed to pay the Maryland Department of the Environment close to $12 million to settle air pollution violations at the company’s soybean facility on the Eastern Shore.
    Kermit Travers poses on the stern of a sailboat with water and buildings in the background. He wears a black baseball cap, a blue denim jacket and a black shirt as he looks up and away from the lens.
    Cambridge’s famous Black skipjack captain has died. His way of life is gone, too.
    Kermit Travers was among only a handful that could be counted as a Black skipjack captain, a fading profession with historic roots. Travers died July 22 in hospice care at age 86, almost certainly the last of his peers.
    Wind turbines in the ocean.
    How Maryland’s first offshore wind farm could affect the environment
    The project that could become Maryland’s first offshore wind farm would have few major environmental impacts, according to a review by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
    The new design of an updated “bays” license plate for Maryland drivers is available now. It promotes the coastal bays as well as the Chesapeake.
    Maryland’s new license plate calls for protection beyond Chesapeake Bay
    Maryland’s new bay license plate bears the same design, featuring the Bay Bridge and a blue crab, as the one that was introduced in 2018. But now, in addition to imploring people to “Protect the Chesapeake,” it calls for the Chesapeake and Maryland’s coastal bays to be protected.
    The Coast Guard on Tuesday dispatched crews to search for a 56-year-old man who fell overboard from a commercial fishing vessel near Deal Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
    Coast Guard calls off search for man who fell overboard near Deal Island
    The Coast Guard on Tuesday dispatched crews to search for a 56-year-old man who fell overboard from a commercial fishing vessel near Deal Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
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