ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s Department of Agriculture could soon have direct power to search farms with Tuesday’s passage of a bill to broaden the department’s control over animal disease outbreaks

ANNAPOLIS – Lobbyists usually bring sharp tongues when they speak before lawmakers, but Wednesday they brought sweet treats instead

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Department of Natural Resources either does too much or too little with its wildlife management programs, critics charge

ANNAPOLIS – Plenty of low-income, hard-working folks won’t survive if Maryland imposes a blue crab size limit that’s different from Virginia, watermen and crab pickers told a Senate panel Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – The state’s cash-strapped mental health system’s deficit is expected to triple initial estimates to more than $70 million by 2003, according to a new report

ANNAPOLIS – The General Assembly would undo environmental progress if it imposes planned “crippling” cuts in the state’s premier conservation programs, Gov

ANNAPOLIS – After a week of debate and failed floor amendments, the Maryland House of Delegates Friday approved wildlife control bills decried by animal-rights activists and outdoor enthusiasts as shortsighted and simply wrong

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s share in funding anti-smog efforts in the region would come from the state’s $9 billion Transportation Trust Fund, state officials said Friday

ANNAPOLIS – Forget Oreos

ANNAPOLIS – A House panel Friday approved a plan allowing landowners to kill nuisance bears and opened the door to a Sunday deer hunt