CAMBRIDGE, Md. — A sewage spill in Cambridge led to confusion this week after the city initially stated that roughly 30,000 gallons of waste had entered the Choptank River. That statement has since been retracted, with city leaders now saying the overflow never reached the waterway.

The City of Cambridge is advising the public to avoid contact with a portion of the Choptank River after a sewer overflow resulted in thousands of gallons of sanitary waste and stormwater flowing into the river.

MARYLAND - New research from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources suggests one of the leading theories about the Chesapeake Bay’s stru…

A nearly month-long search for a missing Chesapeake Beach boater has come to a tragic end with the recovery of his body from the waters off Dorchester County. 

The Maryland Board of Public Works announced they have approved more than $3.1 million in grants from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The grants will be used for parkland, recreational improvements, and land conservation in five Maryland counties, including Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, and Worcester County locally.

Researchers with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) are asking for your help in tracking dolphins in Chesapeake Bay waters as they look into what brings the iconic animal to our aquatic backyard - and there’s an app for that.

For another consecutive year, striped bass, or rockfish, in the Chesapeake Bay are showing poor reproduction rates according to studies in Maryland and Virginia.

A new historical marker was unveiled today in Dorchester County to commemorate the former Choptank Indian Reservation, a significant site for the Eastern Shore's indigenous history.

The Caucus of African American Leaders announced plans to appeal to the Cambridge City Council to change the name of a bridge to honor a late civil rights activist. 

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has announced the completion of shoreline construction at Hurst Creek.