ANNAPOLIS – A state proposal to limit development in 90,000 acres of Patuxent River watershed “flies in the face” of smart- growth initiatives and tramples on local zoning rights, critics charged Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – A proposal to protect gays from discrimination under the state’s human rights law sparked an outcry Friday from religious groups who questioned the state’s role in protecting homosexuals

UPPER MARLBORO – Joe Duvall stood in a frigid warehouse filled with the pungent smell of tobacco and assessed the acre of brown, leafy bundles stretched out behind him

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers said Wednesday that a plan to let state dairy farmers set minimum milk prices is all but dead this year, after a decisive defeat by a Senate committee

ANNAPOLIS – To residents from the Montgomery side of the river, the Potomac is a treasure that brings “joy to the eye and peace to the soul” — but maybe not for long

MECHANICSVILLE – Joe Stoltzfus has lived in the same Amish community here for all of his 56 years

ANNAPOLIS – To residents from the Montgomery side of the river, the Potomac is a treasure that brings “joy to the eye and peace to the soul” — but maybe not for long

ANNAPOLIS – Michael Johnstone and five South Dorchester High School classmates did not know when they came to Annapolis Thursday that lawmakers would be debating Eastern Shore secession

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland dairy farmers urged lawmakers Tuesday to support the state’s ailing dairy farms by letting them join six New England states in setting minimum wholesale prices for milk

ANNAPOLIS – It would be three times as big as Rhode Island, but with less than half the population