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Margaret Risher, 92, who has lived in Turner Station her entire life, gestures with her cane to indicate the level that water has reached during flooding at her Sollers Point Road home.

Desperate to turn back rising floods, Turner Station is asking for help to put climate justice into action

September 17, 2022 at 6:47 p.m.

When rain starts pouring in Turner Station, the historically Black community in southeastern Baltimore County surrounded by creeks, 92-year-old Margaret Risher watches out her front door, praying a bus doesn't...

Andre Marshall, 58, balances a case of bottled water on his shoulder for a mile-long walk back to his home near North Avenue from a Baltimore Department of Public Works distribution location at Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School.

For West Baltimore neighborhoods, water contamination is yet another crisis that compounds intractable inequities

September 10, 2022 at 1:13 p.m.

A drinking water crisis could hardly hit a neighborhood harder than West Baltimore. In the blocks surrounding three sites where samples showed E. coli contamination over Labor Day weekend, a...

Kelis Stewart, 70, carries three gallons of water from the DPW distribution location at Harlem Park Elementary School Tuesday afternoon. E. coli bacteria have been detected in some samples of the water supply in parts of West Baltimore and residents are urged in parts of the city and Baltimore County to boil their water.

Frustration builds over Baltimore E. coli contaminated water as day passes without updates

September 7, 2022 at 6:06 p.m.

Frustrations mounted among West Baltimore residents and their City Council representatives Tuesday as an order to boil water due to an E. coli contamination stretched into a second day with...

Dave Secor, a professor (left) and Mike O'Brien, a faculty research assistant cruise the waterway, submerging several telemetry receivers to track sturgeon as a community fights AquaCon corporation, trying to build a salmon farm nearby, over the environmental future of the 37-mile-long estuary named Marshyhope Creek, home of the native Atlantic sturgeon whose existence is in peril Wednesday., Aug. 10, 2022. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)

The first farmed Chesapeake salmon versus the last of its sturgeon? Proposed Eastern Shore fish farm stirring concern.

November 27, 2023 at 1:14 p.m.

Could Maryland's first farmed salmon be a threat to the last of its sturgeon? Lovers of the sturgeon, a species as old as dinosaurs that was once thought to have...

In a view looking toward Harbor East, a dock for city cruises Baltimore is submerged beneath the tidewater that has risen several feet. File photo

Army Corps floats $134M plan for new flood walls, floodproofing to prevent future storm damage in Baltimore

August 9, 2022 at 3:50 p.m.

To prevent damage from storms like Sandy in 2012 and Isabel, a watershed flood event for Baltimore in 2003, the Army Corps of Engineers has been studying for years whether...

A barge loaded with A&N Electric Cooperative trucks heads to Smith Island after a storm Thursday evening damaged several homes and knocked out power for much of the island.

Waterspout causes significant damage on Maryland’s Smith Island, injuring an 88-year-old woman

August 5, 2022 at 11:02 p.m.

A waterspout tornado that spun out of severe storms devastated a corner of Maryland's Smith Island, an isolated Chesapeake Bay community that already had persistent erosion and a struggling seafood...

Quentin Bell owned a corner rowhouse on East North Avenue, near Homeland Avenue, until a sinkhole opened up in front of his house in July. His house and several others in the block were condemned after the collapse of a 115-year-old stormwater tunnel.

A North Avenue storm drain collapse could take months to repair. Owners of demolished Baltimore rowhouses face even more uncertainty.

August 1, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.

The first sign of trouble came soon after floodwaters from a heavy summer rainstorm had receded. A neighbor alerted Quentin Bell the night of July 2 that a section of...

Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox speaks with members of the media Tuesday at his campaign party on primary night at the Vigilant Hose Co. event hall in Emmitsburg.

With far-right Dan Cox at top of ticket, choices for Maryland Republican leaders are fraught: vow support, push back or stay quiet?

July 24, 2022 at 2:09 p.m.

After far-right gubernatorial hopeful Dan Cox's win in Maryland's primary election Tuesday, the approach to the general election for some Republican candidates is simple and typical: "I'll support my party's...

Maryland Gov Larry Hogan cast his ballot July 7 during early in-person voting.

As Maryland voters cast in-person ballots Tuesday, election judge shortages punctuate an unusual primary election season

July 20, 2022 at 12:34 a.m.

On an unusual and delayed primary Election Day, shortages of election judges meant many precincts were understaffed and delayed in opening across Maryland on Tuesday — but otherwise, everything from...

Josh King tosses a crab pot while setting a line near Gibson Island aboard the F.V. Southern Girl. Waterman Luke McFadden has gained more than a million followers on TikTok for his videos showing life working on the Chesapeake Bay.

‘There’s only one crab guy on TikTok’: How a young Maryland waterman is helping redefine an aging profession

August 1, 2022 at 8:23 p.m.

The crew on fishing vessel Southern Girl pulls one caged wire crab pot after another out of the Chesapeake Bay, only to find a scarcity of crustaceans big enough to...

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