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Maryland’s utility regulators are failing to enforce a 2025 state law that was supposed to save consumers money by setting new restrictions on gas pipeline replacement, according to a court appeal filed la...
Flanked by state and local officials in Greenbelt's Beltway Plaza Mall, Comptroller Brooke Lierman on Wednesday touted the return of the annual Shop Maryland Tax-Free Week as a way for cash-strapped Maryland...
Heat-related deaths jumped to 19 in the first half of the summer, with eight of those coming during the brutal heat wave around the Fourth of July, putting the state on track to record the second-most heat d...
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened on Friday to prosecute election officials in states that don’t “participate in securing the elections” ahead of the November midterms, echoing a...
The field of applicants to serve on the board that oversees the state's multibillion-dollar education reform plan has been winnowed from 29 to four, and Gov. Wes Moore (D) has until the end of this month to...
From AOL’s arrival in Ashburn to today’s AI-driven boom, Virginia became the backbone of the internet economy through decades of planning and work. Now lawmakers look to regulate the burgeoning industry.
Frustrations about proposed data center developments in some counties led to the ouster of local politicians during last month’s primary election, in what observers say may be the first wave of an issue th...
The Supreme Court of Maryland has agreed to hear the state's challenge to the Child Victims Act in a case that could end hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits and save the state and its taxpayers more than $1 bi...
Maryland is one of 15 states that sued the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding. At stake is a $1 billion program to help hire and train more ment...
Ross Seidman moves on from the Senate, Bill Ferguson sticks up for Jared DeMarinis, the Agriculture Department picks up Allie Carter Cavanagh and Rachel Felver, and Erek Barron takes over at the Maryland Acc...
Four-term U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump's and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, died Saturday night of a “brief and sudden illness,” the South Carolina Republic...
A new Maryland rule could save utility customers $20 million a year. But getting those savings will take more work: Three state agencies asked federal regulators to make utilities stop levying a surcharge fo...
With new state dollars granted by the Virginia General Assembly by way of a budget amendment from Gov. Abigail Spanberger, scientists and lawmakers plan to examine the menhaden population inside the Chesapea...
Maryland school districts have until fall to write artificial intelligence policies, using the state Department of Education's AI policies to guide them
CAMDEN, SC — Fourteen unknown soldiers who died in the Battle of Camden are one step closer to being identified 246 years after their deaths. With one soldier named last month, a team of archaeologists, pr...
As communities prepare for crowded July Fourth celebrations, cities and towns across the country have revived juvenile curfews and increased police patrols in response to an apparent uptick in large teen gat...
Can civic and character education in public schools – which have been around for decades -- bring us closer to the Founding Fathers aspirations for us to be virtuous, asks Kalman Hettleman. The answer is y...
Marylanders who provide services for those with developmental disabilities learned June 30 that wage cuts planned to July 1 were postponed leading to confusion and concerns for what comes next.
The $48.5 million purchase of Laurel Park race track approved by the Board of Public Works clears the way for construction of a new thoroughbred training facility and the sale of a Carroll County property bo...
Fourth of July celebrations can be fun and safe. Here are some tips to avoid heat stroke, and injuries from fireworks
Maryland's first 'human composting' facility is turning human remains into soil, considered a greener alternative to cremation or traditional burial
Maryland lawmaker, Lily Qi, writes about her journey from China to the US and into state politics in a book that's part autobiography, part political memoir
Three years after disbanding, Maryland watchdog group returns to monitor insurance coverage under Trump administration
Maryland families struggling to put food on the table can receive a monthly boost in food assistance money this summer, as Maryland Sun Bucks kicks off for the third year to help alleviate the 'hunger gap' t...