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Officials plan to mark the start of the first new office building in downtown Columbia in more than a decade Tuesday, with a formal groundbreaking on a nine-story, $75 million complex of apartments, offices and shops near Lake Kittamaqundi.

Citizens hoping to get a zoning referendum question on the ballot are not the only ones facing down an August deadline.

Barn raisings and husking bees no longer on calendar in Carroll County

With the Highway Trust Fund within weeks of bankruptcy, Congress looks to do no more than kick the transportation can down the road

IKEA has expanded the solar energy system at its Perryville distribution center, making it the largest rooftop array in the state.

Air quality has improved a lot in Maryland and nationwide over the past 15 years, according to a new report by the American Lung Association. But summertime smog levels in Harford and Prince George's counties are still among the worst in the country, the group found.

Think sunshine — not just sweetness — when you see the Domino Sugars sign lighting up the Inner Harbor at night.

Bongino's non-existent plan for reducing carbon emissions

Jonathan Slade and his wife, Novia Campbell, are no strangers to road trips.

KAL is right: Founding Fathers couldn't have anticipated everything

All lanes have been reopened in MD 170 at Andover Road in Linthicum on Wednesday morning after the clearing of an accident with injury that had shut down the roadway in both directions, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Accessible vehicles, not concept cars, dominate

New York mayor vows to ban horse-drawn carriages

Annapolis waterfront real estate

Federal, state and local officials gathered in the East Baltimore Midway neighborhood to tout a $140 million investment to replace the Maryland Transit Administration's aged Kirk Avenue bus facility — aiming to revitalize the neighborhood in the process.

Changes in Medicare under health reform

All four of my grandparents were born on the hardscrabble terrain of Ikaria between 1890 and 1895, before landing at Ellis Island. A hot-button question echoed through its craggy, ancient cliffs, silent valleys and sky-blue surf: Why are so many residents living to 95, 98, even 102?

Aiming to boost the fledgling market for plug-in vehicles, Maryland and seven other states pledged Thursday to use their governments' tax and spending powers to get 3.3 million "zero-emission" cars, trucks and vans on the road in the next dozen years.

This year, Chip and Monica Gribben's house on Holger Court in Laurel is one of more than 50 solar and green homes — including six in the Laurel area — featured on the annual Washington Metropolitan Area Tour of Solar Homes. The homes will be open this weekend, Oct. 5 and 6, to homeowners interested in taking the solar route themselves.

Baltimore's first curbside electric-vehicle charging stations debuted Friday, marking the next step in the establishment of infrastructure to support the spread of plug-in cars and trucks.

State energy officials and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will unveil a pair of electric vehicle charging stations outside City Hall on Friday, the first on a city public street, officials said.

120 years after its invention, the diesel engine, with its increased fuel economy and lower maintenance costs, is coming into its own

You probably won't hear these buses coming. If they show up as expected on the Howard Transit Green Route in the spring of 2015, they'll be the first of their kind in Maryland to run a municipal loop. They will likely be greeted with ribbon-cutting fanfare, even if they won't make much noise themselves, as they'll run entirely on electricity.

The Walmart at Lansdowne Station had over 1,300 solar panels installed last year and now gets a large amount of electricity from them

Cruise ships shouldn't have a license to pollute

Russett's Green Day Committee brings over 30 exhibitors with products and information on green technology and how to reduce our carbon footprint

A Goucher College study suggests that focusing on public transit and electricity use could best reduce Baltimore's ecological footprint.

Gov. Martin O'Malley picked Annapolis veteran John R. Griffin to oversee the waning years of his administration, appointing as chief of staff Wednesday a man who has worked under four governors and earned respect in the environmental community for his candor.

The Russett Green Committee is holding its annual Green Day event May 4, with 25 exhibitors, featuring green products and technology and electric and hybrid cars.

Stephen Lafferty's attack on our councilman, David Marks, who is questioning the new stormwater tax required for Baltimore County residents, was a cheap shot.

As Graul's Market lobbies publicly for a store in the Rotunda, another finalist is also eager to succeed Giant Food as the mall's grocer. Scott Nash, founder of the 10-store regional chain MOMS Organic Markets, said mall redeveloper Hekemian & Co. is considering him as a potential tenant.

Gas tax 'arithmetic' doesn't add up

The simple arithmetic is on the side of increasing Md.'s gas tax.

Who pays for electric cars?

American Honda Motor Co., in a partnership with SolarCity, a California-based residential and commercial installer, is offering customers discounts to put photovoltaic panels on their homes at little or no upfront cost.

Workplaces, such as General Motors' plant in White Marsh, are offering charging stations where employees can plug in their electric vehicles.

At its recent 15th annual gala, Harford United Charities presented a check for $50,000 to the Patricia D. & M. Scot Kaufman Cancer Center at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center.

Robert G. Jaharias, a retired Westinghouse Electric Corp. supervisor who enjoyed collecting and driving vintage automobiles, died Friday of heart failure at his Sykesville home. He was 83.

Solar and wind power are no panacea for climate change

More Sandy- and derecho-like disasters are easy to predict, unless we begin to shift away from fossil fuels now

Harrison Trains LLC presents a train garden at Richardson's Farm Market with donations going to Johns Hopkins Children's Center