natural resources
- Traffic: I-695 outer loop closed near Hawkins Point Road due to a two vehicle accident
- A seven-alarm fire burned about 40 acres of a timber farm on the southern end of Kent Island Sunday, burning for nearly 12 hours before firefighters from across Maryland and Delaware were able to contain the flames, according to a Queen Anne's County fire spokesman.
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Mary Pat Seurkamp is about to retire as president at Notre Dame after one of the longest tenures of any college chief in Maryland. - Baltimore-area day trips include Wild West Rodeo Days at Adventure Park USA in New Market and The Great American Festival at National Harbor.
- Environmental groups criticize state's proposed permit requiring Baltimore city to control storm-water pollution and trash
- Chesapeake Bay 'dead zone' smaller this year, as scientists credit weather for improved water conditions
- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is continuing a years-long effort to clear the Patapsco River of dams that have outlived their original industrial uses and now turns its attention to the Bloede dam, the largest and most significant of them all.
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- Generations have grown up in Bel Air without realizing Plumtree Park, home to a quiet playground and a grassy field, was once also graced with the headwaters of Plumtree Run.
- Todd Huff to hear comments on CZMP rezoning issues in 3rd District at Loch Raven High School on June 26
- A stream daylighting project is scheduled for Plumtree Road in Bel Air.
- Maryland waterkeepers respond to a letter arguing that urban waste, not agricultural waste, is the biggest threat to the Chesapeake Bay.
- Rodgers Forge Community President Jennifer Helfrich, will certainly be smiling with pride as she leads the Rodgers Forge contingent in Towson's Fourth of July Parade.
- A group of Maryland political leaders and environmental scientists say the O'Malley administration's proposed manure regulations aren't strong enough to meet the EPA's goals or to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
- Foster Holcombe converted a milking barn into an inferno where he and his fellow artisans create magical glass creations
- The black bear (or bears) sighted in several locations in Harford County over the weekend was no hallucination – one family has photographs to prove it.
- Harmful blooms of other types pose threats to animals, people
- In eras past, it had been largely denuded of trees and used for farming.
- Every year since 2003, there have been three to 38 bear sightings in Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties.
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- Planners hope to keep boaters happy and safe during the Star-Spangled Sailabration in Baltimore Harbor
- Simplicity will be the theme at their Quaker wedding, with vintage tablecloths, a dress that's been in the family since the 1930s and rings with stones that come from heirlooms.
- The proposal to build a natural gas pipeline along an existing pipeline that traverses Harford County in the Fallston are has brought into sharp focus a key issue that bears a bit of reflection.
- The fish kills in Baltimore's Inner Harbor put the alleged abuses of the poultry industry in context.
- Union Rags ate contentedly in his stall Sunday morning, 15 hours after finally fulfilling his promise — and some would say destiny — with a thrilling win at the Belmont Stakes.
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- A black bear has been seen roaming through backyards, knocking over trash cans, even passing near a school yard, in Jacksonville in northern Baltimore County.
- Fish kills and foul odors in Baltimore's Inner Harbor not the norm
- For years, restaurants in Power Plant have served food and drinks on floating piers in the Inner Harbor, allowing tourists and locals to enjoy in the summer sunshine. But recent plans to expand or improve the facilities have triggered hefty bills from state regulators.
- As the County Council Monday introduced legislation to implement the once-a-decade update to the policy document that guides land use and development in the county, its members had already honed in on specific issues they would like to see addressed in the General Plan.
- Blue Water Baltimore believes Friday storm caused large amount of sewage
- People can't make informed investment decisions unless corporations disclose the financial risks they face from climate change
- A band of severe storms battered the Baltimore area Friday afternoon, spawning a flurry of tornado warnings and flooding roads.
- Summer-like heat over the past three months made it the warmest spring on record at BWI Airport.
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- Maryland will target most of the nearly $60 million it controls from the national mortgage settlement to housing counseling, legal help for homeowners and anti-blight work, state officials said.
- An Eastern Shore man is dead and two people remained hospitalized after their small boat hit the south jetty at Kent Narrows late Sunday, police said.
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- The body of an Edgewood man who jumped off a boat Sunday in the Chesapeake Bay was found Monday, according to Maryland Natural Resources Police.
- Such is the case when it comes to trees. Sure, a lot of them have been cut down to make way for roads, shopping centers, houses and any number of other elements of modern living. Strange though it may seem, though, a lot more of Maryland — and Harford County — is under branch and leaf than was the case a century to a century and a half ago.
- Baltimore breaking news includes the body of a drowned swimmer being recovered, stabbings in Anne Arundel County and a Forest Hill house fire.
- The body of a swimmer who disappeared Sunday near Howell Point on the Eastern Shore, was recovered by the Maryland Natural Resources Police Monday.
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- The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a 21-year-old swimmer who disappeared Sunday near Howell Point on the Eastern Shore.
- Dr. Mark E. Molliver, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor emeritus of neuroscience and neurology, died of complications after cardiac arrest May 10 at his hospital. The Canton resident was 75.
