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Energy production has emerged as arguably the primary growth engine for America's economy, but Maryland has barely participated.

Highland resident Vic McCrary, vice president for research and economic development, Morgan State University, was selected to the 2014 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

The lackluster economy prompted Gov. Martin O'Malley to propose erasing $84 million in planned spending for next year.

Maryland's economy has grown almost without fail in the last quarter century, ticking up year after year. But 2013 was not among them.

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

Maryland's economy didn't grow last year, according to gross domestic product estimates released Wednesday.

The Maryland Port Administration received a federal award Wednesday for its success in driving up exports out of the port of Baltimore's public terminals in recent years.

The National Aquarium is evaluating whether to continue to keep dolphins as part of the Inner Harbor attraction, the institution announced Wednesday.

University of Maryland, College Park President Wallace Loh has made it his top priority to remake the college into a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship, pushing the strategy not just in the business school but in almost every corner.

Maryland's personal income growth was among the smallest nationwide last year as federal budget cuts rippled through the wider region, affecting Virginia and the District of Columbia as well, the U.S. Department of Commerce estimated.

Minority-owned businesses can receive help expanding, securing contracts and accessing large supply chains through a new center that opened Friday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced.

Maryland employers added 8,900 jobs in November, largely in the private sector, pushing the state's unemployment rate down to 6.4 percent, the federal government said Friday.

Baltimore has won a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to launch a minority business development center, the agency said.

Two Baltimore nonprofits have received a $520,000 federal grant for a program to help create jobs in medical research and biotechnology.

Racing fans should look to STEM studies for future of their sport

Environmental hurdles lie ahead in the race to increase capacity at the port of Baltimore as cargo tonnage continues to rise and an expanded Panama Canal promises more business in the future.

Retail sales were up in April as consumers felt more confident

With the U.S. atomic industry stalled, the government should ease the way for companies to do business abroad

Average personal income rose slightly more in Maryland last year than in the nation as a whole, but not as much as in 2011, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Wednesday.

Comcast Digital Connectors program at Coppin State

Flaws in the arguments of gun control advocates

Businesses in China and India, the emerging markets that Gov. Martin O'Malley has been trawling for trade relationships, are beginning to bite.

Women make less than men in Maryland, findings show, and Alison Assanah-Carroll, a Windsor Mill resident, knows it all too well.

Tax free shopping is good for Maryland shoppers, but not for state revenue.

James Edgar Byron, former mayor of Williamsport who was a scion of an old Maryland political family, died July 2 of heart failure at his farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He was 83.

James Edgar Byron, former mayor of Williamsport who was a scion of an old Maryland political family, died July 2 of heart failure at his farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He was 83.