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A teenager has been struck and injured by a MARC commuter train in Maryland, one day after another person was killed in the same county by another MARC train on a different route.

Gov. Larry Hogan's administration says it expects a pilot program to test removing dredge materials from the Conowingo Dam to be "substantially complete" this year.

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ANNAPOLIS — Creating and selling edible medical cannabis products; allowing inmates to receive medical cannabis treatment; and prohibiting employers from asking about marijuana use could become law in Maryland under bills being pushed in this year’s General Assembly. The Senate’s ...

Johns Hopkins University leaders returned to the Maryland legislature Friday requesting permission to create a university police force less than a year after they were forced to abandon the proposal due to opposition from the community and the Baltimore City delegation. ...

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A bill to repeal the crime of adultery passed the Maryland House of Delegates for the second straight year and will head to the Senate committee where it stalled in 2018. House Bill 281, sponsored by Del. Kathleen M. Dumais, D-Montgomery, ...

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ANNAPOLIS – The House of Delegates on Friday passed legislation to decriminalize attempted suicide. With the House’s 103-38 vote, attention now shifts to the Senate, where the Judicial Proceedings Committee is considering similar legislation. Del. David Moon and Sen. Jeff ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A trio of appointees to the state Handgun Permit Review Board were voted down after a nearly one-hour debate. The Senate voted 25-21 to accept a recommendation of the Senate Executive Nominations Committee to reject Republican Gov. Larry ...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that he's not launching a primary challenge against President Donald Trump unless the president's political standing within his own party weakens dramatically.

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ANNAPOLIS —Maryland’s top tax collector and two state lawmakers traded barbs Thursday over a proposal to strip the state’s top tax collector and enforcer of alcohol regulations of some of his authority. On the eve of a legislative hearing on ...

A Baltimore state senator Thursday invoked what might be the most famous Supreme Court decision in support of what might be the shortest piece of legislation introduced in the General Assembly this session: a one-word change in a one-sentence law ...

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