State environmental agencies confirm Maryland oysters and other seafood meet federal safety standards following recent sewage spill concerns. Annapolis, Md. – The Maryland Department of Natural ...

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 ...

Oysters across Maryland and Virginia waters are experiencing a rebound thanks to ongoing conservation efforts in specific locations. The Chesapeake Bay Program has announced that efforts to restore ...

First came the news that oyster harvests in the Chesapeake Bay during the last couple of years have been the best in three decades. Now we learn that bay scallops, long thought to be more or less ...

The Atlantic surfclam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that ...

Virginia did not reach its 2023 pollution reduction targets for nitrogen and phosphorus, according to modeling tools from the Chesapeake Bay Program, but the state is on track for reducing sediment in ...

The Chesapeake Bay appears to be getting healthier, and Pennsylvania is apparently reversing its mixed history of sending pollutants downstream. Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

The disaster sparked environmental and public health concerns as dangerous levels of bacteria were found miles away in the Potomac River.