ANNAPOLIS – Maryland State Parks are experiencing crumbling infrastructure, shuttered visitor’s centers and rising crime after recent funding cuts, but could become one of the top systems in the country with just a small funding increase

ANNAPOLIS – A Senate committee gave preliminary approval Tuesday to Gov

ANNAPOLIS – Farmers, sportsmen, environmentalists — even some development groups — testified Friday in support of a bill that would create a “Green Fund” dedicated to Chesapeake Bay restoration with money raised by development taxes

HURLOCK – Terri Wolf-King, 41, and her husband, Jeff King, 33, wanted to buy 258 acres of farmland near their Dorchester County home after they married five years ago

ANNAPOLIS – Local business owners rallied Thursday in support of a city alderman’s first-in-the-nation proposal to ban plastic shopping bags in Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS – A divided Court of Appeals ruled Friday that police need only reasonable suspicion to pull a car over, a lower standard than probable cause

ANNAPOLIS – Holly Foster spends her days shuttling to Pennsylvania for weekly cheese-making sessions with an Amish expert, then to farmer’s markets throughout Maryland to sell her gourmet cheeses like cave-aged Chapelle

ANNAPOLIS – A weightlifter who had a 530-pound bar smash into his face during a bench press competition cannot sue event organizers for the incident, the Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s system of notifying the public of raw sewage overflows could be an example for the nation, officials said Tuesday to a congressional committee considering just such a measure nationally

ANNAPOLIS – A new report shows that more than one-third of major industrial and municipal facilities in Maryland discharged more pollution into waterways in 2005 than allowed by federal law