The flag's older history is tied to George Calvert, an English politician and colonizer who more or less founded the Maryland colony, although he died just weeks before the charter for the state ...

By the Civil War, the most common Maryland flag design probably consisted of the great seal of the state on a blue background. These blue banners were flown at least until the late 1890s." ...

The Carroll County school board in Maryland will consider a new flag policy on political symbols that could ban items like the rainbow Pride flag in public school classrooms.

Rep. Brett Wilson wears a Maryland flag-themed tie on the House of Delegates floor in Annapolis on Jan. 14, 2015, the first day of the 2015 legislative session.

The gaudy reds and golds of the Maryland state flag have leapt in recent years from the flagpole to T-shirts, koozies, swimsuits and a host of other products that Lord Baltimore himself never could… ...

A Maryland panel, the State House Trust, voted this month to remove a plaque from Maryland’s Capitol that honors the Civil War’s Union and Confederate soldiers from the state.

This Flag Day, Marylanders are reminded that American, Maryland and POW/MIA flags are exempt from Maryland’s 6 percent sales tax.