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ANNAPOLIS — Vending machines in Maryland can now stock everything from allergy relief to some contraception along with candy or chips under a new state law. Over-the-counter medications, which can be bought off store shelves without prescriptions, were banned from ...

A program provides Maryland residents with donated equipment — such as wheelchairs, walkers and scooters that have been sanitized and repaired — at no cost.

Lumped into the “Other” racial and ethnic category, American Indians and Alaska Natives are effectively invisible on Maryland’s state website for COVID-19.

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One of Maryland’s two redistricting commissions is tasked with proposing a state legislative map using only single-member delegate districts, but the current mixed system still has significant support.

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ANNAPOLIS — New laws going into effect in Maryland on Friday will put into action police and criminal justice reforms, address early voting, and increase protections for LGBTQ+ people. Police reforms include greater transparency for police conduct records and independent ...

A $3 million vaccine canvassing program is benefiting 26 community groups statewide, including in some targeted minority or vaccine-hesitant areas.

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WASHINGTON — A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and health organizations are still trying to determine the extent of its impact on Americans’ mental health, but early data suggests it is significant. Self-reported symptoms of anxiety ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Interested citizens can draw their own congressional and legislative maps to submit for consideration to Maryland’s two redistricting commissions. The commissions, one established by Gov. Larry Hogan and one run by the Legislature, are holding public meetings to ...

ANNAPOLIS — Marylanders traveling on an airplane may soon be able to leave their plastic state identification behind for a digital card from Apple Wallet. Other states introducing the digital identification program through Apple Inc. include Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, ...

Senators from the Chesapeake Bay region are asking the Biden administration to enforce strict water pollution standards in Pennsylvania and New York to help meet previously-agreed goals for restoring the Bay. The lawmakers, all Democrats, told new Environmental Protection Agency ...