People spilled out of the Harford County, MD, council chambers and down the street in June. For more than 10 consecutive ...

A development partnership backed by an A-list sports celebrity is looking to transform a former amusement park in Maryland ...

Born and raised in Chesterfield County, VA, Phil Lohr knows what life was like before the Shoosmith Landfill moved into the ...

If you spend enough time on our nearest ocean beaches, you might be lucky enough to spot a piping plover making short dashes ...

Data centers have become one of the fastest-growing land uses in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Northern Virginia alone, often called “Data Center Alley,” is home to the largest concentration of data ...

The large-scale commercial harvest of Atlantic menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay could be slashed later this year. The move might help starving osprey chicks and other struggling fish but could also hurt ...

Squeaks from a pump station near Vince Hodges’s home in Norfolk, VA, routinely wakes him at 2 a.m. His Berkley neighbors live next to shipyards and passing coal trains. Alone, each piece of ...

A Maryland version of Winnie-the-Pooh’s fabled magical forest has been officially protected from development. Informally known as the “Hundred Acre Wood,” the forested tract was transferred by NASA to ...

Bay Journal reporters explore how once abundant sturgeon are returning to Chesapeake Bay waters. Elsewhere in the Chesapeake region, a proposed bill in Maryland could open oyster reef sanctuaries to ...

Local governments are widely seen as crucial to restoring the health of the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers. Many, though, lack the workforce and expertise to carry out the work. A new report reveals ...