Oysters are more than a classic on menus in the D.C. area. They play a key role in filtering the Chesapeake Bay. Volunteers known as oyster gardeners help raise oysters for this purpose.

The Oyster Bay Forward Grant Program is thanks to federal funds secured by the town, according to a news release. Beginning Nov. 29, businesses and nonprofits can apply for $5,000 grants.

On Thursday, June 19, the charming hamlet of Oyster Bay will once again open its gates and garden paths to the public for one of its most beloved community events: the Oyster Bay Garden Tour.

For the fifth year in a row, the oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay is doing well after decades of combating drought, disease, loss of habitat and overharvesting. The Maryland Department of ...

Oyster Bay planted 50,000 adult oysters in town waters this week as part of a national nonprofit program that buys shellfish from local growers and donates them to municipalities to help create ...

The Oyster Bay Town Board has approved a six-month moratorium on battery energy storage sites that stalls any movement on proposals for two such facilities that are pending. No sites are in ...

By Sydney Kuhnel editors@antonnews.com The Town of Oyster Bay was recently awarded a $435,000 grant through the Green Innovation Grant Program. The grant is part of a larger program through New ...

The Oyster Bay site was the only one that fit all the criteria. Now, the City is under contract to get to 30% design for the site grading but has only received concepts for comment.

TOMALES BAY – An oyster that was once abundant in the Bay Area is being studied to see if farming more of it could help boost its population in the wild.

Shellfish growers in Willapa Bay in southwest Washington, the self-styled "Oyster Capital of the World," are alarmed by an invasion of potentially destructive nonnative European green crabs. Some ...