Recent comments from the head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program about pollution limits designed to improve the health of the bay have sparked concern among environmental groups and some Maryland officials.  EPA’s bay program Director Dana Aunkst said at a conference this week in Annapolis that 2025 pollution goals set forth in 2010 for Chesapeake Bay...

Governors in nine states along the Atlantic coast are urging the Trump Administration to stop a company that makes fish-oil supplements and other products from fishing in Virginia waters. A letter sent Friday from those governors echoes concerns of fishing regulators who say Omega Protein defied harvest limits in the Chesapeake Bay. The firm catches a fish called Atlantic menhaden…

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg left North America on a return trip across the Atlantic on Wednesday, hitching a renewable-energy ride with an Australian family aboard their 48-foot (15-meter) catamaran.

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg will leave North America and begin her return trip across the Atlantic on Wednesday aboard a 48-foot (15-meter) catamaran sailboat whose passengers include an 11-month-old baby. The boat leaves little to no carbon footprint, boasting solar panels and a hydro-generators for power. It also has a toilet, unlike the boat on which she sailed...

It didn’t rain Saturday night, leaving residents and visitors in Old Town Alexandria wondering why the streets were flooded. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg, 16, spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Action Summit on Monday.

Maryland narrowed the possibilities for a potential new crossing over the Chesapeake Bay to ease traffic congestion to three areas near the current twin spans of the Bay Bridge, state officials announced Tuesday.

Maryland leaders have narrowed down some options to build a new span across the Chesapeake. News4’s Adam Tuss has the details.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Saturday a new state commission to review educational standards for teaching black history in the state.

A family that traces its bloodline to America’s first enslaved Africans said Friday that their ancestors endured unimaginable toil and hardship — but they also helped forge the nation.

The Washington National Cathedral will ring its largest funereal bell for one minute on Sunday to honor the first enslaved Africans who landed in North America, 400 years ago this month.

At the beginning of the North American slave trade, the very first documented Africans arrived in Hampton, Virginia, 400 years ago. News4’s Jummy Olabanji reports.

The owner of a coal plant on a river north of Maryland may have to pay a $1 million fine over pollution leaking into the river and flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.

A part of the Potomac River that runs next to Charles County, Maryland, and has a fleet of sunken WWI-era steamships is being designated as a new national marine sanctuary.

Mallows Bay in Charles County was designated a national marine sanctuary. Chris Gordon reports the bay protects a fleet of World War I era ships submerged there.

Some ecologists at the University of Maryland are worried that a large spot of low oxygen in the Chesapeake Bay could harm the state’s seafood industry.

Some ecologists at the University of Maryland are worried that a large spot of low oxygen in the Chesapeake Bay could harm the state’s seafood industry.

Maryland’s Howard County has been awarded a nearly $2 million grant to help protect a section of the Chesapeake Bay’s vast watershed.

A nonprofit that tracks pollution in the Chesapeake Bay lambasted Pennsylvania on Tuesday, saying that the state is failing to protect the nation’s largest estuary from farm manure and dirty stormwater.

The Washington, D.C. metro area is in for a breezy, but calm Memorial Day weekend after a massive storm system blew through the area on Thursday.