Local government

The 19th-century pipes underground in Baltimore City are bursting into flames, and the city and BGE are pointing fingers instead of finding a solution.

It has rained every Wednesday for the last eight weeks. It washes garbage and leaves and dead animals and poop into the Chesapeake Bay.

The Columbia Association board of directors is getting younger, and residents say it's for the better.

Mario Minor, a former concert promoter with no experience opening a grocery store, sold Poppleton residents in Baltimore City a dream.

The Board of Estimates voted down an amendment intended to address a problem uncovered by Baltimore’s inspector general.

Baltimore groups ask for more funding for drug treatment services in the Penn North neighborhood in West Baltimore.

Montgomery County officials unanimously passed a bill Tuesday creating a hiring preference for displaced federal workers.

There are no public pools in Baltimore County. Nearly 70 years after the Supreme Court's Brown decision overturning the "separate but equal" principle, some attribute this to the legacy of segregation.

Baltimore residents crowded the City Council’s Public Safety Committee meeting on police accountability to condemn police-related deaths.

Following Gov. Wes Moore's decision not to locate the state's first cannabis incubator at the Catonsville armory, residents voiced frustration with the process and discussed what they would like to see there.

Although Baltimore City officials say they never sought the money from the state, they confirm they are exploring a deal with Plank to relocate the aviation unit.

Nearly a year after a Western Howard County resident retroactively applied for a permit to keep a go-kart track on his property for his son, a local county board is poised to decide the track’s fate later this month.

Audio from emergency dispatches show a single call for help for a 27-year-old woman quickly spiraled into a much larger crisis.

The outcome of mediation in a class action lawsuit will either free the next Annapolis mayor to move past an ugly history or hobble the city with a crippling payout and more years of litigation.

Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan has found that a third county corrections officer with ties to Nigeria committed fraud by obtaining a federal COVID loan for a business that did not exist.

Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan has found that a third county corrections officer with ties to Nigeria committed fraud by obtaining a federal COVID loan for a business that did not exist.

Baltimore Gas and Electric still believes that the Baltimore Peninsula will one day become a pulsating metropolis.

At ARPA funding dries up, many nonprofits have also been socked by the loss of other federal dollars slashed under the Trump administration.

Boat ramps are the gateway to the Chesapeake Bay for hundreds of thousands of Marylanders. So when the public ramp shuts down people are going to notice.

The seven-member Baltimore County Council unanimously voted down the additional $2 million loan for Red Maple Place in Towson.