ANNAPOLIS – Environmentalists hailed a proposal to require labels on mercury products, saying it would warn the public about mercury-related health risks and cut pollution from discarded products

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Some state lawmakers are joining the fight against regulations designed to slow the declining blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay region

ANNAPOLIS — Civil libertarians told a Senate panel Wednesday that they feared misuse of a bill designed to clarify the governor’s powers during outbreaks of bioterrorism-related diseases

ANNAPOLIS – The state needs to close a gap “a truck could drive through” in a law that restricts building along the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, former Maryland Gov

TANYARD – Four years ago the state pledged $1

ANNAPOLIS – Business owners would not lose money if smoking were banned in their taverns, bars and clubs, supporters of an anti-tobacco proposal told lawmakers Thursday

ANNAPOLIS — Representatives from 13 districts pleaded Wednesday for nearly $160 million in additional funds for school construction, but the state has only $35

ANNAPOLIS – Eastern Shore school superintendents implored lawmakers Friday to support at least a down payment to implement an expensive school reform plan ignored by the governor’s budget

ANNAPOLIS – Bear hunting isn’t necessary and deer hunting on Sundays would end the only day of peace for hikers, opponents of plans to extend Maryland’s hunting seasons told lawmakers at a packed hearing Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s wildlife officials respond to a number of nuisance bear incidents, but one this summer in Garrett County was the most unusual