Fracking Shale For Gas Brings Wealth, Concerns
Hydraulic fracturing is a drilling process that blasts millions of gallons of water for each well deep into the earth to fracture dense shale and allow natural gas to escape.
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Hydraulic fracturing is a drilling process that blasts millions of gallons of water for each well deep into the earth to fracture dense shale and allow natural gas to escape.
Frederick city officials say emergency work on a sinkhole has closed a section of Monocacy Boulevard at Storage Way.
Walking around the Main Street at South River Colony complex, it's hard not to notice the vacant storefronts and signs advertising space to lease.
Maryland's environmental secretary is calling on the federal government to take a more active role in studying and regulating natural gas drilling.
The U.S. military is planning some training flights over Washington and Frederick County, Md., to test the region's air defenses.
A man died from his injuries after a Tuesday morning industrial accident.
A new defense for Maryland residents who use marijuana for medical reasons has cleared the Maryland General Assembly.
Maryland's sales tax on alcohol will jump 50 percent in July, the state will have a new venture capital fund to help jump-start businesses and illegal immigrants will be eligible for in-state tuition under legislation approved by the Maryland General Assembly on Monday night.
Baltimore Ravens offensive line coach Andy Moeller has pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while intoxicated, but he will not have to serve time in jail.
Hood College in Frederick has received a generous gift from a deceased graduate.
The General Assembly has approved Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed venture capital fund.
A spokesman for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley says the governor will sign a bill slashing the state's share of proceeds from slot machines at the Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort near Cumberland.
The Lululemon Athletica retail company says it is planning to reopen the Bethesda store where one of its employees was killed in March.
Ron Hilliard came back from church one Sunday to find hundreds of plastic $5, $10, $20 and $100 bills hanging on his fence in Flower Mound, Texas, another message from townsfolk angry at him for signing a lucrative natural gas drilling lease for his suburban Dallas property.
The National Security Agency is opening up to prospective contractors hoping to do business with the secretive government organization.
