The state agreed to a 2040 deadline for bay cleanup goals but is not on track to meet current nutrient and sediment reduction targets.

BALTIMORE -- The Chesapeake Executive Council, which includes the governors of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, pledged to update the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement which was signed a decade ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY, MD - Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced three new oyster restoration sites in Chesapeake Bay waters, including the Nanticoke River and Hoopers Strait in ...

Last month, Gov. Terry McAuliffe and other bay state governors signed a new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, the fourth such compact since 1983. The new agreement lays out 10 ambitious goals that ...

There is a picture of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on the cover of "The Way It Is," the first album by Bruce Hornsby and The Range. Following its opening in 1964, the Bridge-Tunnel was selected as ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

Near the Chesapeake Bay, farms have flourished for hundreds of years on the rich, fertile soil of coastal Maryland. But as sea levels rise, driven in part by climate change, encroaching saltwater is ...