If you think it’s expensive to fill up your car, try fueling up a boat. Fuel prices are typically higher at marinas because of their compressed seadon and higher expenses, but with gas a dollar a gallon higher than last year, at well over $6, boaters are rethinking outings.

Ads for Polymarket and Bud Light lined an eight-sided cage on the White House grounds ahead of a series of mixed martial arts fights set for Sunday, President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, and billed as a celebration of America’s 250th birthday.

More than $25.5 million has flooded in to Maryland congressional campaigns in the last two months, almost all of it in the form of personal loans from a handful of well-heeled candidates to their own campaigns, according to new campaign finance reports.

Members of the state’s largest public employees union rallied at the University System of Maryland Board of Regents meeting Friday, calling on it to reverse more than 100 layoffs announced recently as state campuses struggle with tight budgets and higher costs.

The Trump administration has failed to refund more than $145 billion in tariffs that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unlawful, a pair of U.S. Senate Democrats said in a Wednesday letter to the administration’s chief of customs.

Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — struggled to afford healthcare last year, defined as trouble paying medical bills, a family member not getting needed care due to costs or family medical debt at the time of the national survey.

Rising residential energy prices are front of mind for candidates pursuing seats in the House of Delegates and state Senate in the upcoming Maryland primaries, as are the data centers that many blame for the higher rates.

Frederick has more planned hyperscale data centers than any other county in Maryland, scheduled to come online in as little as three years, prompting pushback amid local concerns that the area will soon resemble “data center alley” in Northern Virginia.

Some were tired of the barrage of campaign ads. Some heard those ads, because they brought the campaigns' messages with them, and others came to their decision the old-fashioned way -- the personal touch. They all showed up for the first day of early voting.

A judge Friday ordered Aaron Penman reinstated to the Harford County Council seat he was ousted from more than a year ago at the instigation of County Executive Bob Cassilly (R).

Taking advice and inspiration from opponents of a planned immigration detention center near Hagerstown, a newly formed advocacy group in Utah is preparing a lawsuit in hopes of stopping a similar project in Salt Lake City.

State election officials await a decision by a federal judge that could determine — at least initially — whether voter records containing personal and identifying information will have to be turned over to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Community members expressed cautious optimism over the newest effort to revitalize the aging State Center Complex in Baltimore, a decades-old development challenge that has been a point of “frustration” and “opportunity” for nearby communities.

Maryland’s only remaining coal-fired power plant is likely to keep operating through mid-2031 — six years after it was set to close — although the plan technically still requires approval from federal regulators.

The House voted 249-172 for a bill to crack down on financial aid fraud by requiring the U.S. Department of Education to set up an identity fraud detection system for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, better known as FAFSA.

Long-simmering grievances over how taxpayer funds are spent in Prince George’s County blew up this week when the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission blasted the county council for transferring tens of millions of dollars from its budget.

Maryland officials are moving forward with a plan to require electric vehicle charger owners to register their devices with the state — and pay a fee — so that the chargers can be inspected.

When Eric Carpenter-Grantham got the first Maryland ID with a special butterfly logo to identify his hidden disability, he urged others to follow him. Since Oct. 1 more than 22,000 people have done so, asking the MVA for the logo available under "Eric's ID Law."

Maryland's state election board unanimously approved a set of guidelines Tuesday laying out how thousands of mail-in ballots will be tabulated for the primary election, a move needed after a ballot mix-up led to the mailing of 437,000 replacement primary ballots.

A federal judge in Massachusetts struck down a Trump administration order to require a $100,000 visa fee for highly skilled immigrant workers, calling it an unlawful tax. The ruling was a victory for 20 states, including Maryland, that sued to block the H-1B fee.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is walking back, for now, a plan to sweep up data on millions of Americans who vote by mail under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail ballots.

Residents near Piscataway Creek have had to cope with contamination before from Joint Base Andrews, write Dean Naujoks and Staci Hartwell, and they deserve transparency and accountability in response to the latest incident, a spill of thousands of gallons of jet fuel.

Gov. Wes Moore hires an adviser for the real intel on artificial intelligence, Sen. Cheryl Kagan and Del. Aletheia McCaskill take their show on the road and Nicole Earle notches a historic first at the Maryland Racing Commission, in political notes.

Maryland made slight gains in measures of childhood well-being since the pandemic, but continued to struggle in education, according to the latest Kids Count report, which scored states on their performance for the first time in addition to ranking them.

A duplicate ballot arriving at one Maryland home is raising new questions about a batch of replacement mail-in ballots rushed out to more than 400,000 state voters last month, after an error was discovered in the original mailing.

The court fight over mifepristone was never about the drug's safety, but about spreading confusion and hindering medication abortions, write Amy Hagstrom Miller and Christie Pitney, which is why Maryland needs to step up and protect patients and providers.

The Department of Homeland Security will let states access federal citizenship data by June 30 and plans to monitor the flow of mail ballots for signs of voter fraud, according to a court document, even as the White House faces a series of lawsuits over the plans.

More than two months after jet fuel contaminated Piscataway Creek at Joint Base Andrews, it is still unclear how at least 22,000 gallons of the toxic liquid leaked from the sprawling air base, why it wasn’t caught sooner and where it may have gone.

Four times, from 2023 to 2024, vacancies in Montgomery County's Legislative District 16 were filled by the Democratic Central Committee, encapsulating what's wrong with the system for filling legislative seats. Voters will finally have their say in the June 23 primary.

With the use of a groundbreaking method, researchers believe they have identified the lost remains of the second governor of the colony of Maryland by using DNA records to find 1.3 million genetic relatives of Maryland’s first colonists who are alive today.