The Latest Breaking News from Chesapeake Bay

Summer approaches, and it’s traditionally a time when a Marylander’s fancy turns to a dozen Number One Jimmies steamed. The bad news is that Chesapeake Bay blue crabs are running especially scarce this year, a combination of a cool spring that reduces crab movement (and thus prevents watermen from catching…

About 41.6 million pounds of blue crabs were harvested from the bay and its tributaries

An annual survey of the Chesapeake Bay has found the blue crab population at its lowest level since scientists began tracking the beleaguered species more than 30 years ago.

Cranes used to unload containers and free stuck ship

Ship freed from muddy bottom of the Chesapeake Bay at third attempt is owned by same company as ship stuck in Suez canal last year

BALTIMORE — At long last, the Ever Forward is free.

A container ship the length of more than three football fields has finally been pried from the muddy bottom of the Chesapeake Bay more than a month after it ran aground

BALTIMORE — For two decades, Jordan Crane intermittently worked on a graphic novel. He dreamed of the idea in his late 20s, but each time he made progress on it, something interfered and delayed the process. He’d make progress, but then get stuck.

Officials opt for new approach to moving vessel belonging to owners of Ever Given, which blocked Suez canal for a week

After two unsuccessful attempts to free the grounded Ever Forward in the Chesapeake Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard says containers will be removed to lighten the load before another try

The largest ship to get stuck in the Chesapeake Bay is carrying 5,000 containers of … stuff.