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Virginia enacted a law last year requiring schools to have classes on gambling and its addictive potential. Similar legislation failed in Maryland and West Virginia in recent years, but they’re expected to try again.

Wetlands and streams are both very important in protecting the Chesapeake Bay, advocates said Thursday, and to lose them to development could be harmful.

U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger wants Congress to approve a clean debt ceiling increase and he opposes Republican budget proposals that he says would cut funding for programs vital to Marylanders.

The promise the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling held for many in Baltimore and elsewhere stands in sharp contrast to enduring school segregation almost 70 years later, Banner columnist E.R. Shipp says.

The exhibit at Pimlico Race Course displays Secretariat's trophies from his Triple Crown wins in 1973.

The blunt-spoken Zell made a fortune in real estate but his 2007 acquisition of the Tribune Co., including some of the nation’s best-known newspapers, resulted in the media giant filing for bankruptcy.

Taylor Swift might have bad blood with one particular security guard in Philadelphia. In a viral moment, the star defended a concertgoer during the middle of her set while performing her 2014 hit “Bad Blood.” WJZ learned that the fan in question is a mom from Baltimore who teaches at an elementary school in Timonium.

The death of four horses at Churchill Downs over a span of five days has overshadowed preparations for the Kentucky Derby.

Raskin, who represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in December and started chemotherapy shortly after.

The singer and actor stands as the model and the epitome of the celebrity activist.

Obesity is a chronic disease that has brought a particular set of consequences to communities of color, Dr. Garfield Clunie, president of the National Medical Association, says.

A man’s profane meltdown over a crying baby on a flight from Baltimore to Florida went viral in an explicit TikTok video posted Tuesday.

It’s sparked a familiar conversation about race and how Black women are regarded in sports and other arenas, such as politics and corporate America, when they express themselves.

NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly to the moon by the end of next year, including one woman and three men.

Harassment and vandalism accounted for most of the spike, which gave the state the 10th highest number of antisemitic incidents in the country in 2022.

Since 2018, the Morgan State University graduate has raised more than $1.2 million in venture capital for Femly, her company that helps women have access to safe feminine hygiene products.

Investigators say the violent movements that killed a Maryland woman aboard a private jet this month were multiple times the pull of gravity and were not caused by the weather.

TSA officials provided a demonstration Thursday on how to properly pack your firearm when traveling.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is one of nearly two dozen attorneys general across the country demanding leadership at Kia and Hyundai take action against what they are calling a crisis of car thefts.