Eastern Shore

If you’re getting ready to head back from the eastern shore, you may want to wait out the major delays on Route 50.

Traffic is backed up 13 miles before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Labor Day.

A new study shows many of Maryland’s most significant sites from Harriet Tubman’s life are in jeopardy of chronic flooding as sea level rise threatens the Eastern Shore. The News4 I-Team’s Jodie Fleischer reports on the impact as archaeologists rush to unearth more of Tubman’s story before it’s washed away.

Some Eastern Shore residents are working to make sure Harriet Tubman’s impact on the area is never forgotten.

A new study from Climate Central found several sites on Harriet Tubman Byway could face chronic flooding this century.

Harriet Tubman experienced a life-changing head injury while she was in this store as a child.  Learn how a family in the area brought this historical site back to life.

The family of a 19-year-old Black man who died in police custody two years ago in a rural Maryland town has filed a federal lawsuit

A group of eight women from the Washington, D.C., area is retracing Harriet Tubman’s trek for freedom, walking 116 miles from Maryland to Pennsylvania. They say the journey holds special meaning now as many Americans stand divided.  The hikers set out on the Tubman Byway on Saturday, starting in Cambridge, Maryland, and making their way north to Kennett Square,...

A group of local women are on a more than 100-mile journey hiking the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway from Cambridge, Maryland, to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. News4’s Derrick Ward has more on their journey to walk in the steps Tubman walked.

Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge will soon officially go cashless and only take tolls electronically

Coronavirus cases among workers at poultry plants on Virginia’s Eastern Shore have become an increasing concern for local health officials

President Donald Trump is using the Defense Production Act to order meat and poultry plants hit hard by the coronavirus to stay open. More than a dozen plants have closed because of COVID-19 outbreaks among their workers. One union says 20 employees have died.