Given the chance Sunday, I joined a record-breaking 18,000 others to walk and run across the 4.3-mile eastbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I thought a lot about the future of Maryland’s defining engineering feat.
The state has agreed to adopt a policy that explicitly addresses how medical examiners handle in-custody deaths. It would apply to all deaths involving law enforcement restraint, including those that occur in jails, prisons and juvenile facilities.
An app created by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science allows people to track dolphin sightings, providing insight into the prevalence and behavior of dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay.
Historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have missed out on $12.6 billion in funding over the last three decades, according to the Biden administration.
President Joe Biden can take three steps — on tax credits, revenue sharing and permits — to help the nascent wind industry deal with challenges like inflation, supply chain and other issues, according to the letter Wednesday from Gov. Wes Moore and the governors of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Judge Brett W. Wilson said prosecutors erred in filing the case against Tyler Mailloux in Worcester County Circuit Court instead of the District Court of Maryland. The Worcester County state’s attorney said the state was "filing an immediate appeal" and would await a ruling by the appellate court.
In motion for change of venue, Tyler Mailloux’s attorney wrote that his client cannot receive a fair and impartial trial unless the case is moved out of Worcester County.
A patient escaped from one of Maryland’s state-run psychiatric hospitals Tuesday evening by exiting through a shot-out window and fleeing in a waiting getaway car, according to local police.
The recreation area would knit together a network of cultural and environmental landmarks that one day could stretch across the 64,000-square-mile Chesapeake watershed in a single unit under the administration of the National Park Service office in Annapolis.
In a charming surprise, a group of students participating in a summer leadership course with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation found a young sea turtle in the bay in Dorchester County.
More than 1,000 medal events took place over twelve 12 days in 21 different, sports including basketball, swimming, table tennis, track and field, and badminton.
Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday announced that Maryland would be the first state to respond to a recent study pointing out roadblocks to faster progress on cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.
Much of Maryland is under a flood watch Sunday, according to the National Weather Service, and could see severe thunderstorms produce excessive rainfall and strong winds.
The region’s fishery managers are far from confident that a surfeit of blue crabs now lurks beneath the bay’s surf. But they say that results from the just-released wintertime survey were promising enough to relax some of the restrictions.