When they last signed a Chesapeake Bay cleanup agreement in 2014, officials from seven jurisdictions set ambitious targets ...

Officials have released a draft Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan with revised goals, staggered deadlines and some gaps left open pending updated pollution data, aiming for a more realistic and ...

A bill before Congress should make it easier across the bay’s watershed to identify major sources of pollution that might respond to practical actions.

But critics caution that the efforts, as designed, cut off some historically Black and disadvantaged communities in South ...

Iowa water bans are a sign of the state’s intensifying struggle with high nitrate levels in streams and rivers that supply ...

For nearly a month, hundreds of thousands of Iowans have not been allowed to water their lawns—even though there's no drought ...

Now, watershed states and federal officials are back to soul searching. By the end of the year, they aim to revamp goals and ...

Norfolk police are investigating a late-night shooting that left one person dead and one critically injured on Chesapeake Boulevard.

Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay is slowly disappearing as sea rises and erosion hits the shoreline. The population has dwindled, but the people still living there say they're there to stay.

The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has plummeted to 238 million in 2025, the second-lowest level since surveys began in 1990, according to the 2025 Blue Crab Advisory Report released on ...