What was once known as “Murder Mall” will now become headquarters for a city office, with Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration ready to award $16 million to developer and campaign supporter P. David Bramble.

So far the reception from state leaders has been lukewarm and city budget officials have also pushed back, according to emails and other communications obtained in a public records request.

City code makes clear that employees are prohibited from working for or receiving payment from organizations that have contracts with their agency, as Chase Brexton does with the health department.

Dr. Emenuga is the subject of a criminal investigation that focuses, at least in part, on work she did at a health care provider while also serving as Baltimore’s health commissioner.

Before her promotion to commissioner, Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga worked as the health department’s Youth Wellness and Community Health Division, where she oversaw clinical services in schools.

The anti-Harborplace redevelopment coalition, organized by attorney Thiru Vignarajah, faced a 4:30 deadline Monday to submit 10,000 signatures to Baltimore elections officials.

Renew Baltimore recently hired attorneys from the Thomas & Libowitz firm to sue after the city’s election board director rejected their petition to put the tax cut on the November ballot.

The proposal would reduce the council to eight members from 14, plus a president elected citywide. City attorneys have made clear that if two successful charter amendments are completely contradictory, both will be thrown out.

A hearing to examine Baltimore’s opioid overdose crisis was abruptly canceled Wednesday morning as a dispute between Mayor Brandon Scott and the City Council member who’d called the meeting boiled over and became public.

Questions abound about how the money will be used to combat overdoses.

The proposal to slash Baltimore’s property tax rate nearly in half has stoked fears of cratering finances in City Hall. Organizers behind the initiative said Tuesday that they disagreed with the decision and plan to challenge it in court.

The proposal follows action by Maryland leaders last year to raise the floor pay for most other workers, and comes on the heels of a contentious fight over the minimum wage for tipped workers down the road in Washington, D.C.

Petitioners filed more than 23,000 signatures on Thursday, far more than the proposal needs to appear on November’s ballot.

The City Council didn’t introduce a single amendment to the mayor’s proposed budget.

CSX argues that many of the methods deployed by the community’s researchers, including low-cost air quality monitors, tape strips and statistical models, were flawed.

CSX Transportation and Curtis Bay residents who sued the company following a December 2021 explosion at its South Baltimore facility have reached a $1.75 million settlement in a class action lawsuit.

Councilman Mark Conway plans to introduce legislation on Monday to convene a hearing in late June.

Greenhouse gas emissions are coming down in Maryland. But record levels of coal leaving Baltimore are driving emissions overseas.

The city’s fund, one of several collecting donations for the survivors and victims of the Key Bridge disaster, was originally slated to close on Friday, but the mayor’s office said it planned to keep it open because of continued support.

Is a progressive bloc about to take hold of City Hall? The four newcomers don’t uniformly embrace the label.