ANNAPOLIS – A Capital News Service study of deteriorating bridges in Maryland found that state and county engineering teams were keeping up with bridge maintenance, having repaired, replaced or started work on 21 of 23 targeted bridges

HEREFORD – The white stone bridge was erected in 1933, according to plaques at either end of the span, and it carries Big Falls Road over Gunpowder Falls

ANNAPOLIS – As the FDA implements regulations to protect the nation’s food supply from biological terrorism, the Maryland Department of Agriculture is asking food producers to voluntarily tighten security to prevent attacks

ANNAPOLIS – The days are getting warmer, the cherry blossoms have bloomed, the first pitch has been thrown, and

ANNAPOLIS – As the Maryland Department of Agriculture prepares to spray for mosquitoes across the state, public interest groups warned consumers about the possible health risks of some pesticides

ANNAPOLIS – This year’s heavy winter banished Maryland’s two-year-old drought, but it swept through so ferociously that it might be fall before the park service cleans up all the fallen trees and waterlogged trails

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s environmental programs face at least a year of cutbacks as lawmakers decide to direct funds to human services instead of land conservation in a year dominated by budget problems

ANNAPOLIS – A proposal exempting building records from Maryland’s public information act in the name of national security has set real estate groups and state agencies at odds with the media

ANNAPOLIS – Following months of debate, Natural Resources Secretary C

ANNAPOLIS – The high-tech businesses of the Baltimore-Washington corridor could expand into rural Maryland, but for a chicken-and-the-egg problem the state hasn’t solved yet