STEVENSVILLE — The westbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is getting a makeover. A $19.5 million project is under way to repaint the bridge in its signature shade of gray. Maryland Transportation Authority spokeswoman Teri Moss says most of ...

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Big male crabs fetch the highest prices, but when it comes to ensuring the Chesapeake Bay will continue to produce those No. 1 males, researchers are increasingly paying attention to how many females are harvested. A new assessment released Tuesday ...

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NORFOLK, Va. — Red algae blooms have returned to Virginia waterways that feed the Chesapeake Bay. The blooms have been active in the lower James, York, Elizabeth and Lafayette rivers for several weeks, Old Dominion University researcher Margaret Mulholland told ...

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Rockville’s district courthouse, which opened Monday after three years of construction at a cost of $65 million, was closed Wednesday due to seeping sewage nearby — apparently the result of the strain the new facility put on a blocked city ...

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CHANCE — It’s been almost six years since the skipjack Ida May has had wind in her sails and splashing water swirling across her bow, but in just a few weeks, the boat will once again be sailing the Chesapeake ...

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Maryland lawmakers urged their federal counterparts Thursday to raise the country’s debt limit without hashing out a deal to reduce the long-term debt and deficit. Del. Tom Hucker and Sen. Jennie M. Forehand, both Montgomery County Democrats and co-chairs of ...

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Imagine if one of our major automakers proposed a model line of gas-wasting, air-fouling vehicles that used 60-year-old technology. Unthinkable, of course; but it’s little different than what homebuilders and developers propose when they plan most new rural subdivisions. Their ...

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At long last, there are clear signs of progress in the interminable struggle to clean up Chesapeake Bay. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson recently told representatives of the six states in the bay watershed, including Gov. Martin O’Malley, and District of ...

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Imbrium Systems, a Canadian stormwater treatment company whose U.S. headquarters is in Rockville, said its Jellyfish Filter has been approved by the Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services to treat polluted stormwater runoff heading for the Chesapeake Bay. The Jellyfish ...

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The former owner of the Sparrows Point steel mill is asking a federal judge for two more weeks to respond to a suit filed by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The foundation says the plant continues to pollute the bay and ...

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