Eastern Shore

Rep. Glenn Ivey and Rep. Andy Harris are co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill that would award Frederick Douglass the Congressional Gold Medal.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s plan would make it the second HBCU in the country and first university in the state to offer a stand-alone veterinary school.

Smelly chicken plant leftovers, some of it trucked across state lines to be stored in pits until it can be spread as fertilizer on farm fields, is stinking up parts of Maryland now.

Some areas of the Chesapeake Bay region and certain communities, including the Latino community, could be acutely impacted by flooding risks linked to climate change, Shanna Edberg, director of conservation programs at Hispanic Access Foundation, says.

Federal authorities’ plan to feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill has years to go before making its way into Americans’ wallets.

Maryland Transportation Authority Police are searching for a blue 2018 Honda Civic that was speeding and may have contributed to a chain-reaction 23-car crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge over the weekend.

A ranger with the Maryland Park Service found the ship timber, still showing markings of the shipwright who built her, during a daily patrol on December 22. A strong coastal storm delivered its gift practically to the ranger’s doorstep.

Tuesday’s rainstorms swept unusual puffin-like seabirds into the mid-Atlantic region.

Baltimore area residents and emergency responders are surveying the damage caused by substantial rainfall that soaked the region Tuesday.

Check out history and see your lawmakers at work with a visit to the State House in Annapolis, the oldest state capital building that’s in continuous legislative use.

Heavy rains and tidal flooding submerged roadways, stranded vehicles and downed power lines and trees Tuesday as a storm plowed through the Baltimore region.

The U.S. Mint will feature Maryland's own Harriet Tubman on three commemorative coins this year.

Since the 2021 reassessment, residential values increased on average by 25.6% and commercial properties saw an average jump of 17.6%, according to state data released Friday.

Research has shown Black students are more likely to graduate and go to college if they have a Black teacher, yet thousands don’t have one at all.

A federal judge took the unusual step of reversing a jury’s guilty verdict against a Maryland doctor for health care fraud.

The law could force lower-income owners into delinquency and out of their homes. In worst-case scenarios, the requirements could make it more difficult to buy and sell properties and cause property values to tumble.

The Biden administration’s latest lease offering for offshore wind projects doesn’t allocate adequate acreage for Maryland and other mid-Atlantic states to achieve their legally binding emissions reduction and clean energy targets, industry groups and environmental advocates say.

Once-fertile soil has given way to wetlands plants and salt patches, imperiling a search for the exact location of the cabin where Harriet Tubman’s father lived and taught her in Eastern Maryland.

When you sit down to a holiday meal this season — particularly in Maryland — there’s a good chance you’ll be eating at least one dish invented or inspired by the Black diaspora.

Maryland roads include more than 700 historic markers commemorating famous battles and buildings. Some, like the one introducing Kent Island to motorists, hearken back to the years before Catholic settlers even founded the colony in 1634. Others, like the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory dedicated on Solomons Island in 1925, are more recent.