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A Margaritaville resort slated for the oceanside at 13th and 14th streets moved closer to reality with approvals needed for a planned overlay district.

The 2022 session of the MGA is over and State Sen. Mary Beth Carozza and Del. Wayne Hartman are now turning their attention to meeting with constituents.

Masks are no longer required on Ocean City buses following the surprise overturn of a federal mandate early this week, but the decision may be short lived.

Four Commissioners signed their names to a text amendment that could allow telecommunications towers to sit as close as 500 feet to a single home.

The 2022 session of the Maryland General Assembly is over and Worcester County came away with wins for agritourism and development in by the Boardwalk.

Sen. Carozza and Del. Hartman sounded off on legislation they support and legislation they don't as the 2022 session of the General Assembly nears the end.

Hartman said he sees a lot of "bad bills" coming over from the Senate after swap-over week, including bills on climate reform and a ban on ghost guns.

Primary elections in Maryland have been pushed back to July 19 as the state Court of Appeals works its way through legal challenges to new redistricted maps.

Agritourism, beach erosion pass first major hurdle and sports complex aspirations might get a boost but Class L liquor licenses won't be coming to the county.

A modification was made to the zoning code that will accommodate the Shady Side Village residential planned community to be built on Old Ocean City Road.

Del. Wayne Hartman said he and Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan "have a consensus" that the room tax increase will have to wait, plus other updates from Annapolis.

The commissioners approved the reclassification of protected land for limited development, frustrating some nearby residents in South Point who fought against it.

The return of school masking powers to county officials gained major traction this week with a state board of ed members vote to rescind an emergency mandate.

Del. Wayne Hartman and Sen. Mary Beth Carozza worked on legislation involving hotel room tax and a new bill that would enable large grocers to sell beer and wine.

City Council members agreed to endorse a proposed state law modification that would give them more control of state- and town-owned structures along the Boardwalk.

Agritourism legislation for rural vendors in Worcester continues to work its way through the Maryland General Assembly, plus more from the Worcester delegation.

Resort officials have decided they need to amend the city's code to more specifically address seasonal workforce housing projects that are coming down the pipeline.

Residents against the proposed rezoning of land along Route 611 say they're trying to protect the already fragile ecosystem in the area from even more traffic.

Residents along Croppers Island Road along Route 113 in Newark are organizing to protest a proposed livestock slaughterhouse located in their neighborhood.

The East Chicago Housing Authority built the West Calumet Housing Complex in the early 1970s with little fanfare, as the authority’s director quietly took more than $100,000 in kickbacks for helping to steer various contracts related to the project to…

EAST CHICAGO — In a newly released plan to move more than 1,000 residents from lead-contaminated housing, local officials described the relocation as “aggressive,” but added they believe it could be done with identified resources.

EAST CHICAGO — Residents packed inside the Riley Park Recreational Center on Saturday, eager to ask how the EPA plans to remove lead- and arsenic-contaminated soil in the Calumet neighborhood.

EAST CHICAGO — The East Chicago Housing Authority board approved two resolutions Wednesday intending to help residents of a public housing complex where alarmingly high levels of lead and arsenic were found in the soil.

Nearly 20 years after an EPA project manager told state and federal health officials about a long-demolished lead smelter that once operated on the site of a public housing complex and elementary school in East Chicago, residents are just learning…

EAST CHICAGO — Weeks after being told they are living on top of toxic soil, West Calumet Housing Complex residents are learning more about the city housing authority’s plans to relocate families out of the lead-contaminated complex by a Nov.…

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence left the campaign trail to visit storm-damaged Kokomo this week, prompting residents and community leaders in East Chicago to question why he hasn’t made a similar appearance there, where families face a crisis of their own.

EAST CHICAGO — Lead problems in the West Calumet Housing Complex are creating havoc for the School City of East Chicago, affecting the finances and enrollment of a district that just balanced its budget and eliminated a deficit after years…

EAST CHICAGO — EPA and city officials said Friday the federal agency will not excavate any soil in the lead- and arsenic-contaminated West Calumet Housing Complex as the city housing authority and HUD work to relocate residents.

EAST CHICAGO — In a letter to the head of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, a Chicago-based nonprofit representing a group of West Calumet residents in the ongoing lead contamination crisis alleges the federal agency and local…

EAST CHICAGO — EPA officials said Wednesday four families at the West Calumet Housing Complex are preparing to accept the federal agency’s offer to deep clean their homes, and every resident eventually will have an opportunity to do the same.

EAST CHICAGO — About 200 residents living in the lead-contaminated West Calumet Housing Complex packed the neighborhood’s community center on Wednesday to learn more about the availability of housing vouchers to move out.

On his 54th day in the Vancouver Island wilderness, one in which whipping, frigid wind confined him to a tarped tent that kept flapping in his face, Sam Larson appeared to reach his breaking point on the final episode of…

When Sam Larson ventures into the woods, an Instagram account doesn't come with him. Though the Lincoln resident has been routinely blogging about his wilderness excursions and the pursuit of bushcraft skills since 2011, the limit-testing trips he took far…

She kept her win on "Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition" a secret for six months.

Two grandson, one a Lincoln attorney, will be on the History reality show with a letter their grandfather received from Knute Rockne not long before the famous coach died.