Eastern Shore

COLUMN | A sea of gray-haired picketers angry about the state of the nation has been asking: Where are all the young people? I found 80 of them recently in Easton, Maryland — high schoolers lining up to flip Congress in November.

COLUMN | What if this isn’t about parents’ rights and school bureaucrats? What if the lawsuit and threats to cut off school funding over pronouns and names are about seizing control of schools from local communities? Parents should be asking a lot of tough questions.

Two confirmed tornadoes touched down on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and three hit Anne Arundel County during Tuesday night’s storms, weather officials said, leaving a trail of damage behind.

Route 50 to and from Ocean City is notorious for traffic jams. Here are seven places to stop along the way that are worth your time.

Approval of TeraWulf’s purchase of the Morgantown Generating Station marks an early step in the Easton-based company’s plan to overhaul the contaminated coal site and use it to power a data center complex.

A flood watch is in effect for Baltimore City and most of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard and Harford counties.

Since 2023, Maryland has had more prison homicides than all of its neighboring states combined. Its homicide rate last year was nearly four times the national average, based on available data gathered by The Banner.

There's not much to do when people use chairs, buckets and other things to save beach space for hours at a time. It’s just a part of resort town life.

Maryland health experts are urging residents to stay indoors Friday as wildfire smoke pushes air quality to dangerous levels.

COLUMN | The Somerset County proposal to limit young adult book titles to kids 18 and older will make children less empathetic and — let’s face it — stupider.

Every year, for eons, horseshoe crabs have migrated to the beaches and coastal bays of Ocean City and the Eastern Shore to spawn during the full and new moons around the summer solstice. Tuesday offers the last chance to catch the phenomenon this year.

Disappointment in the progress of the Corsica raises a bigger, more troubling question. If, in two decades, officials can’t revive one relatively small tributary, can they really save the bay?

Classics like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Little Women’ might be off limits to most students under the proposed policy.

Six people across three counties were rescued by helicopter over the holiday weekend by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command.

Deputy state fire marshals are investigating a house fire in St. Mary’s County that left a man dead after officials say he reentered his burning home to find his 10-year-old child on Sunday night.

Residents of Cecil County and Newark, Delaware, were injured Saturday afternoon when a boat exploded moments after refueling at a Chesapeake City marina.

From the Inner Harbor in Baltimore to Ocean City, here’s where to watch fireworks for America’s 250th birthday in Maryland.

An independent minor league baseball team says it is forfeiting a game because some of its players refused to wear a special Pride Night jersey.

Here are the big things officials want you to keep in mind (besides remembering to pack your sunscreen) when you head to the shore this summer.

After searching for about 20 hours, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Friday for a boater who went missing off the coast of Ocean City.