Bethany Hooper

Officials say they will not pursue eminent domain after learning that the four downtown properties the city had interest in purchasing for the creation of a municipal parking lot are now under contract with another buyer.

Employees with the new beach enforcement division issued three more citations this month, with all of them occurring on the same day for the same tent violation.

While the county's elected officials last week passed a moratorium on data center and cable landing station projects, Ocean City Manager Terry McGean says the decision has no impact on a lease agreement between the resort government and Globalinx, the company proposing a 25,000-square-foot facility along Route 611.

Last December, the Ocean City Council gave its blessing to a $4.9 million contract with Axon Enterprise to modernize the Ocean City Police Department's technology system.

Ocean City resident Jerry Collier was sitting on the beach with family last week when he witnessed something he had never before seen – a beachgoer catching a bluefin tuna with his bare hands.

Participants in a local fishing tournament raised more than $700,000 last week for Dravet Syndrome research.

A wild horse died on Assateague last Saturday night after being struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Bayberry Drive and Oceanside Drive.

St. Paul's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church is asking a federal judge to dismiss the Town of Ocean City's countersuit against the them as its case involving its homeless shelter moves forward.

Drought conditions throughout Worcester County are expected to end this month, according to a new prediction model from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Both incumbent Rick Meehan and Council President Matt James have officially entered the mayoral race, setting off another contested election in Ocean City.