Climate & environment

High pressure is driving temperatures up this weekend, with some widespread rain expected in Central Maryland, according to the National Weather Service.

As Baltimore City agencies relocate mountains of snow to dump sites, residents are concerned about the noise and what happens when it melts.

Deer in Baltimore are out of control. Starting this spring, the city plans to deploy sharpshooters in three parks to begin culling the population.

A Maryland lawmaker submitted BGE’s controversial proposal in the final hours before a procedural deadline.

It has been more than two weeks since a winter storm graced parts of Maryland with almost a foot of snow. Now, many of us are wondering: When will the snow and ice go away?

Baltimore Gas and Electric has called on Maryland leaders to pass legislation allowing the utility to build and own power plants — an ask it’s underscoring with ads during NBC’s Olympics and Super Bowl coverage.

Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport recorded a temperature of 14 degrees in the morning that felt like minus 1 degree with the wind chill, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Luis Rosa.

Will we remember it as Fern when we tell the stories of this winter storm? Probably not. But as it slowly, achingly melts from view, here are a few, meagre final words to describe what just happened in the weather and beyond.

Winds could gust as high as 60 mph Saturday afternoon.

While much of the Chesapeake Bay is frozen over, watermen, cargo ships and emergency responders have places to be, and islanders on Smith and Tangier need food and supplies. That’s where Maryland’s two icebreakers — the A.V. Sandusky and the Eddie Somers — come in, clearing channels up and down the bay like giant snowplows.

The National Aquarium is rehabilitating dozens of cold-stunned turtles, and it named them after Baltimore neighborhoods.

Boulders and other large rocks are blocking repair crews’ access to the collapsed DC Water sewer pipeline.

An arctic front and a windstorm will make parts of Maryland feel as cold as minus 15 degrees this weekend.

Maryland emergency department and urgent care visits for cold-related illness more than doubled and at least six more people died, state health data shows.

A Baltimore judge has opted not to sentence a local man to prison for illegally certifying that hundreds of homes in Maryland were free of lead paint.

Here are the Maryland school districts delaying their start time on Wednesday, Feb. 4.

The County Council unanimously passed a bill that could pause development of data centers into 2027.

Maryland has just five years to meet the first of its ambitious climate deadlines – a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2031– but new analysis shows the state is lagging behind, thanks in part to President Donald Trump.

Nobody has been fined, but Anne Arundel County issued warnings to every house on a street in Odenton for not shoveling their sidewalks after the recent snowstorm.

A 44-year-old California woman who died presumably after slipping on ice in Truxtun Park was identified Monday by Annapolis Police.