Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson refused to put redistricting to a vote due to a lack of support and concerns over potential legal action.
The Potomac Interceptor pipeline broke in January, spilling millions of gallons of wastewater during the first five days of the spill.
After a judge ruled Virginia’s redistricting effort was illegal, Maryland represents the Democrats' only viable redistricting effort.
The map will be submitted to the Grand Assembly, where the Democratic majority are divided on pursuing a mid-decade redistricting effort.
Maryland has the highest population of Black people of any state outside the South. Reparations have been a priority for the Legislative Black Caucus.
This comes as FEMA faces criticism over its handling of the Texas floods and denying funding to several states that faced similar disasters.
The order relaunches the Environmental Justice Screening tool and forms a council focused on environmental justice training for state employees.
Maryland's former chief medical examiner is at the center of an investigation into whether the in-custody deaths of people restrained by police were accurately labeled.
On April 5, 23-year-old Black man Dinari McAlmont, a resident of Bowie, Maryland, was found dead while vacationing in the Bahamas.
Emmarts United Methodist Church served as a safe house for enslaved people fighting for freedom along the Underground Railroad in the 1800s.
There is outrage after a Southern Maryland elementary school downplayed an alleged attempted hanging of a Black student as "horseplaying."
Angela Alsobrooks made history as Maryland’s first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate by defeating Republican Larry Hogan.