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As 2020 ended, the owners of the Morgantown coal plant in Charles County announced they would deactivate the plant no later than 2027.
It comes as no mystery to Serenella Linares why Latinos have been sidelined by the mainstream environmental movement.
I don’t remember exactly where and when I first met Jamie Raskin, but it had to have been in 1998.
The author states no one awaiting trial, presumed innocent, should be incarcerated based on their financial circumstances. Period.
Gov. Larry Hogan said if he were in the Senate, he would have voted to convict Trump.
As a technician in the emergency department of a busy hospital in Prince George’s County, I thought I had seen it all over the years.
Gov. Larry Hogan signed a heavily amended version of his billion-dollar COVID-19 relief package into law Monday.
Following the spate of tragedies in 2020, many lawmakers are saying that the 2021 General Assembly session is the "year of police reform."
Controversy over the rollout of Maryland’s vaccine distribution effort has obscured a dramatic decline in the spread of the virus.
One by one, and two by two, they come, in all sizes, shapes, colors, genders and manner of dress, most of them masked.
Maryland labor unions are seeking hazard pay and mandatory health and safety standards for essential workers during emergencies.
Let me start off by saying that I’m not a grief counselor, a licensed social worker, an ordained minister, or a rabbi.
Indian Head Highway could be renamed after a former president. Hint: He was pretty popular in Prince George's County.
An adolescent psychiatrist notes depression, isolation, real-life responsibilities, dropping out, and other factors tied to remote learning.
Hogan, one of four governors attending the meeting with President Biden, urged the president to work to increase vaccine production.
The Maryland Senate on Friday voted to override Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s veto of a monumental education reform bill.
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will become chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government.
The House of Delegates nixed a last-minute provision that would’ve included broader stimulus checks for Maryland taxpayers.
Van Hollen said his Republican colleagues "have inflicted lasting harm on our nation in their failure to hold Donald Trump accountable."
Such action could indicate the state would not support the proposal of a high-speed train running between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.