ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A board of high-ranking Maryland officials has rejected a pipeline across the western part of the state that would carry natural gas produced in Pennsylvania to West Virginia. The Board of Public Works voted 3-0 Wednesday against an easement for TransCanada's proposed pipeline. It would run under the Potomac River and extend 3 miles (4.83 kilometres) from Columbia Gas' network ... Read More

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A board of high-ranking Maryland officials has rejected a pipeline across the western part of the state that would carry natural gas produced in Pennsylvania to West Virginia. The Board of Public Works voted 3-0 Wednesday against an easement for TransCanada's proposed pipeline. It would run under the Potomac River and extend 3 miles (4.83 kilometers) from Columbia Gas' ... Read More

Jan. 01--A rainy New Year's Eve brought Baltimore's record precipitation total for 2018 to nearly 72 inches -- almost twice as much as an average year. There was 71.82 inches of precipitation during the calendar year at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the region's point of record. That was more than 9 inches above the total for 2003, Baltimore's second-wettest ... Read More

Some observers probably wonder what Montgomery County, Md., could have done differently to land the Amazon headquarters now headed to Arlington. After all, Montgomery - one of three Washington, D.C., area sites among 20 Amazon finalists - offered the tech giant an incentives package worth up to $8.5 billion. On top of that, the county had a connection with the Amazon site selection team. Holly ... Read More

Steve Castillo reclined in a vinyl seat in the cramped cockpit of the New York, a 3,400-horsepower monster dredge, manipulating controls that extended the vessel’s mighty excavator arm deep into the dark waters of the Delaware River. He glanced at a monitor depicting the scene 45 feet below the surface, where the excavator’s giant bucket gouged bedrock on a recent morning, deepening the river ... Read More

Dec. 27--Reducing carbon emissions from transportation systems and creating more equal access to transportation are among the goals in a new phase of a coalition of Maryland and other states in the Mid-Atlantic region. Maryland, along with eight other states and the District of Columbia, will move into the next phase of the Transportation and Climate Initiative, designing policies and programs ... Read More

Dec. 26--Town Point Center, a 12-story downtown Norfolk office building that faces the docked USS Wisconsin battleship, has sold to a Maryland-based real estate investor for $19.9 million, according to the seller. Cohen Investment Group, which bought the 132,583-square-foot building at 150 Boush St. in 2014 for $14.5 million with the intention of re-selling it , sold it to The Falstaff Group, ... Read More

Amazon, the world's biggest retailer, founded and helmed by the world's richest man, recently subjected scores of American municipalities to a humiliating dog and pony show. The Seattle-based tech behemoth announced it was planning to build a second headquarters somewhere in North America, promising some 50,000 new jobs to wherever it landed. It then, in a slow-motion imitation of a reality ... Read More

Dec. 18--The construction worker who died after being struck by an excavator Monday in Baltimore County was one of at least four Archer Western employees who have died on the job this year. Transito Rodriguez Cruz, 36, was clearing mud from a trench at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Dundalk after a rainy weekend when he was pinned by heavy machinery, said Jeffrey Raymond, a ... Read More