Thirty-nine high school-age residents were shot and 11 died in the first three months of this year – the deadliest start to a year for Baltimore teens since at least 2015.

Safe Streets outposts reduced nearby homicides and nonfatal shootings by an average of 16% to 23%, with larger reductions in homicides during the first four years of the longer-running sites.

Two of Maryland’s third parties have lost their official recognition due to poor showings at the ballot box.

Like other kinds of work in the gig economy, such a program could help address city agencies’ severe staffing needs while connecting people with jobs that could last as long as a day, a week or a month.

The administration was pursuing a first-of-its-kind strategy to deliver fiber internet to every home in Baltimore. But turnover and delay have thrown the approach into question.

The city has only sanctioned a company once before for failing to uphold minority- and women-owned business requirements, and leaders hoped Wednesday’s decision would send a signal about their commitment to supporting them going forward.

Of cars sold to Maryland dealers in model year 2027 — or just three years from now — 43% must be zero emissions. That share steadily increases every year until the 100% requirement goes into effect in model year 2035.

Council President Nick Mosby said the abbreviated, 12-month extension is intended to put pressure on Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration to get moving on a long-promised review of how tax incentives are effecting disinvested parts of town.

Last week, Baltimore landed a $2 million federal grant to begin studying removal of the infamous highway dividing West Baltimore — funding that proponents hope is just the beginning.

Baltimore Gas and Electric defended its controversial conduit deal with Mayor Brandon Scott during another marathon probe into the agreement Thursday, arguing the arrangement will bring long-term benefits for an aging city asset while delivering millions in costs savings to utility ratepayers.

The debate over a maintenance contract for Baltimore’s conduit exposed fault lines in city politics with the 2024 city elections approaching.

The vote culminated a dramatic series of events at Wednesday’s Board of Estimates meeting, in which the protest by Council President Nick Mosby and Comptroller Bill Henry, both critics of the deal, tried but failed to delay the decision.

The emails, obtained in a batch of records requested by The Banner, shed more light on the lead-up to the chaotic chain of events in January that resulted in BOPA Director Donna Drew Sawyer’s resignation and a last-minute dash to hold a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.

The finance department has called the city’s menu of tax credits “highly inequitable” and singled out the historic preservation incentive as especially in need of reforms.

The community cleaning initiative, which will focus on low-income neighborhoods of East, West and South Baltimore, comes as the city’s public works department is managing severe staffing problems.

A Banner analysis of a revived Group Violence Reduction Strategy in the Western District suggests remarkable impacts.

Under the new rules, a recent move by Mosby that kneecapped an administration request on the city’s 700-mile underground conduit would not have been possible.

A new report, released on the same day that the city’s top public works official announced his resignation, lays out a roadmap to address staffing challenges, equipment shortages and inefficient truck routes.

Jason Mitchell cited family matters for leaving, but has faced intense criticism for matters such as recycling from some City Council members during his tenure.