Most Maryland boaters are satisfied with existing access but want improvements.

A striped bass poaching case that began in February 2011 with a discovery of mysterious, illegally set nets full of tens of thousands of pounds of striped bass off of Kent Island is finally coming to a close.

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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources imposed new rules and regulations on water jet pack businesses in Ocean City and elsewhere to keep thrill-seekers safe.

Three people have died in Maryland waters in as many days, and a U.S. Coast Guard search is underway for another who went missing Monday

Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police are in the process of recovering a body found this morning along Weems Creek in Annapolis.

The body of a swimmer who had gone missing at Patapsco State Valley Park on Friday was recovered on Saturday, officials said.

The Maryland Natural Resources Police spent the weekend patrolling the state's most-trafficked waterways for drunken boaters in a nationwide policing event, "Operation Dry Water," as they prepare for the throngs that will be out over the upcoming Fourth of July weekend.

Anne Arundel County voters will chose between Republican Steve Schuh and Democrat George F. Johnson IV for their next county executive.

Thomas D. McKewen, a materials recovery and waste management expert who was the founding director of Maryland Environmental Services, died June 13 of congestive heart failure at his home in Ashburn, Va. He was 86.

A five-member team of students from Carroll County's Venturing Crew 202 won the 24th annual Maryland Envirothon — an outdoor natural resources competition that challenges students to identify and categorize living resources, perform soil surveys and solve other complex natural resource issues.

Tucked amid the woods of northern Baltimore County is one of Maryland's natural gems – the Big Gunpowder Falls, a nationally renowned trout stream that draws anglers from far and wide to try their skills and luck in the cold, rushing water.

For as long as anyone can remember, wild orchids have rewarded sharp-eyed hikers in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains with pink, yellow and white blooms peeping from the forest floor. But these "secret beauties," as one researcher dubbed them, are vanishing at an alarming rate.

Columbia Families in Nature is a new family nature club that organizes two to three free outings a month throughout Howard County. Chiara D'Amore, of Columbia, founded the club with her husband, Jeremy Bergamore, and their children, Bryce, 4, and Sasha, 1, to encourage families to explore the outdoors together, emphasize play time in nature and teach participants about the environment and conservation.

WASHINGTON -- Environmental advocates say a spending bill set for review in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday could reopen a fight over whether the Environmental Protection Agency may regulate pollution entering small headwater streams that feed into larger bodies of water, including the Chesapeake Bay.

The Obama administration announced on Tuesday an initiative to track every fish sold in the United States — a move designed to crack down on illegal fishing, mislabeling of seafood and related problems.

A Severna Park man was arrested Sunday for police impersonation while intoxicated at Taco Bell.

Latest report shows state's lackluster GDP is not the fault of high taxes or regulations but reduced federal government spending

Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against a couple who were found livid with their children aboard a cold, filthy sailboat in the Magothy River this winter.

The gunshot wound suffered by a Virginia man while kayaking in Pasadena in April may have been self-inflicted, Maryland Natural Resources Police said Monday.

Robert Matysek, of South Carolina, died after an apparent cardiac arrest approximately one mile into the 4.4-mile Great Chesapeake Bay Swim on Sunday.

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in shallow water in Patapsco Valley State Park in the Brooklyn Park area on Wednesday.

The Park Service's decision to close a parking lot off Jones Road in Gunpowder Falls State Park in Maryland to curb overuse of natural resources draws criticism.

A judge in Cambridge has upheld Maryland's curbs on catching menhaden, rejecting claims by a pair of watermen that the restrictions were unconstitutional.

On Wednesday, 35 members of North Harford High School's Class of 2014 will have the additional distinction of being the first graduating seniors to complete the school's magnet program, Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences.

Water rescue teams are searching for a missing kayaker in the Susquehanna River near Conowingo Day early Monday afternoon.

Two Kent Island men were found dead in the Chesapeake Bay Saturday morning after their small boat apparently was swamped with water, Natural Resources Police said.

Harford Christian School kept its winning streak alive in Friday's 2014 Harford County Envirothon, the eighth straight triumph for the northern Harford School.

Last Saturday was meant to be a pleasurable morning (or day) of perch fishing. It turned out to be a bit more of an adventure for Dave Meadows, 51, of Street.

A Street man was able to rescue a bald eagle tangled in a fishing line Saturday, an incident that ended up being one of three eagle-related calls Maryland Natural Resources Police handled that morning in Central Maryland.

The Maryland Seafood Marketing Program has started up its fourth season of chef education tours

The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population remains at a low level for the second straight year, officials announced Thursday, blaming the severe winter for killing off a large number of the iconic crustaceans.

Visitors to Howard County's main government campus in Ellicott City will now have the opportunity to take an educational outdoor stroll whenever official work gets too stressful.

Dr. Torrey C. Brown, the former secretary of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources who banned fishing for rockfish, died of heart disease Sunday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Severna Park resident was 77.

Harford County celebrated Arbor Day 2014 on Good Friday, as volunteers of all ages gathered at the Chapel Road Sports Complex in Havre de Grace to plant hundreds of seedlings and young trees.

A Street resident has the option of pleading guilty to his role in starting a three-alarm field and woods fire April 10 that burned more than four acres and paying a $75 fine, or fighting the charges in court and running the risk of being found guilty and paying a fine of up to $500.

Dry conditions – which were erased with Tuesday's heavy rains – have kept Harford County's fire companies hopping in recent days as they work to extinguish one field fire after another.

Six people were rescued from the cold, choppy Magothy River on Sunday after their small boat was swamped with waves and sank, police said.

Maryland Natural Resources Police continue to investigate the unusual case of a man who was shot while kayaking on a Pasadena creek Saturday night.

Maryland regulators are weighing some of the strictest limits in the country on shale gas drilling, but a scientist Monday suggested they still may not go far enough to protect drinking water wells from contamination by methane leaking from drilling sites.

The Harford Land Trust (HLT) named Ben Lloyd president of its board of directors at its annual membership meeting held March 22 at Fiore Winery.

A snowy winter kept the state's brush fire season at bay into March, but now Maryland forestry officials are conducting controlled burns to prevent accidental blazes later this spring.

Two watermen were fined nearly $1,500 for oyster poaching on the Eastern Shore, the first conviction using a network of radar and cameras the state launched in 2010 to detect illegal seafood harvesting.

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