State government

The decision allows Virginia to study the viability of a winter fishery, but does not automatically create one.

State and city officials are gearing up to make a major announcement regarding the planned Red Line transit project in the coming days. A key question is whether the project will be light rail or bus rapid transit.

Newly passed legislation will force current members of the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention to reapply to the commission. Attorney General Anthony Brown said he is eagerly looking forward to the application process that will populate the new commission.

We are in a season of replacements, of dominos lined up for the chain reaction fall. As many as six political vacancies in Annapolis either have been filled or will be by early next year. It’s a rare moment of political instability, and voters will have almost no say in the outcome.

The longtime head of the state office responsible for nursing home inspections will retire, officials announced about a month after a major lawsuit against the agency.

Advocates hope the system will empower sexual assault survivors while holding police and prosecutors accountable for what happens to evidence kits.

Instead of diverting some of the hundreds of children charged with less serious crimes away from the system the first time they land in trouble, Casi O’Neill spends the bulk of her time triaging teens charged as adults

Buckel was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol, driving while impaired by alcohol, driving on a suspended license, negligent driving and failure to display vehicle registration to a law enforcement officer.

Court officials are preparing for a possible increase in applications for expungements to follow the pardons.

Nearly one-quarter of the convictions are from Baltimore, making it the part of the state most affected by the action.

Baltimore voters who might've passed up the opportunity to cast their ballots during the primaries must fully participate in November because of what's at stake nationally, journalist and professor E.R. Shipp says.

The $17.15 minimum hourly wage will be among the highest in the country.

With one phase of the job complete, Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday he will not be satisfied, “until I can look over on the Patapsco and see the Key Bridge standing tall again.”

Properly implementing Gov. Wes Moore's executive order to establish air standards for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and water heaters will mean healthier Maryland communities, the president of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative says.

“Offshore wind means we don’t have to choose between hoping for and working for a green economy and a growing one,” Gov. Wes Moore said.

Greenhouse gas emissions are coming down in Maryland. But record levels of coal leaving Baltimore are driving emissions overseas.

Members of the state’s Board of Public Works signed off on spending the money at a Wednesday meeting with no discussion of the details.

Centurion of Maryland will take over providing medical and mental health care to an estimated 20,000 people who are incarcerated in state-run prisons and jails. The officials who signed off on the deal expressed frustration with the process.

An executive order from the governor requires new standards for using low-emission electric options for new and replacement heating equipment in homes, such as furnaces and water heaters.

Horseshoe crab blood is a vital part of the pharmaceutical industry — but this nonprofit group says Maryland obfuscates how it regulates their harvest.