Why Delegate Wayne Hartman made a push on the final day to make sure Maryland lawmakers would name the Orange Crush as state's official cocktail.

Republicans call it the largest tax increase in decades, while Democrats say they protected the state's most vulnerable.

The Maryland General Assembly passed a balanced spending plan for the coming year. Here's a look at what that means for Maryland in taxes, fees, more.

The end-of-session agreement hikes taxes and cuts programs to balance the spending plan for the 2026 fiscal year. Here's what ...

As Delegate Wayne Hartman (R-38C-Wicomico and Worcester counties) put it in an interview after Sine Die 2025, the final day for the Maryland General ... in West Ocean City, but also a lot more." ...

The measles outbreak has spread to additional counties in Kansas ... Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore recently signed the largest budget in state history that includes more than a dozen new taxes and ...

Emus can travel long distances quickly, so it's possible it's the same emu being seen Wicomico and Caroline counties in Maryland and, most recently, in Sussex County, Delaware, but it's also ...

Cities diverted streams of property and sales tax revenues from counties and also tended to have concentrations of social ills — poverty, crime, drug addiction and homelessness — that county ...

When California became a state in 1850, it had fewer than 100,000 residents and 27 sparsely populated counties. Several were larger in land area than some states. CALmatters is a public interest ...