More than 150 years after Maryland stuck with the Union, the state is facing a peculiar request by its three westernmost counties to secede. Lawmakers from the counties — Garrett, Allegany and ...

CHARLESTON — Several state lawmakers in neighboring Maryland reached out across the border last week seeking to bring their counties into West Virginia. Representatives of Legislative District 1 ...

In its politics, the western counties are akin to West Virginia, which, like them, voted handily for Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.. To get to West Virginia ...

Five Republican lawmakers from Maryland's three westernmost counties have sent letters to West Virginia legislative leaders asking if the state would consider adding their jurisdictions.

In Western Maryland counties like Allegany and Washington, for example, or Somerset and Talbot counties on the Eastern Shore, the 65-and-over population rose less than 2% year to year.

Maryland students describe rescue from major flooding 02:57. Severe flooding devastated some Western Maryland communities in Allegany and Garrett counties, where children had to be rescued from ...

The state of Maryland is teaching gender identity in rural schools through a program targeting Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore, which includes telling teachers to refer to girls as ...

State legislators in three conservative western Maryland counties are seeking permission to secede from the state to join neighboring West Virginia. In letters to West Virginia state House Speaker ...

Western Maryland is under a state of emergency as recovery efforts continue after historic flooding in Allegany and Garrett Counties. Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) toured the town of Westernport ...

Chief Critics. Many Maryland lawmakers slammed the proposal as a stunt, as did the state's largest newspaper, The Baltimore Sun. "If you want to be irrelevant, you pull stunts like this," the ...

Allegany is also one of the least healthy counties in Maryland, ranking 21 of 24. We are relatively poor and there is almost no public transportation. It’s been difficult to access any ...