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.

The complaint, submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, argues that the city's department of public works has failed to adequately chart a course that would end Baltimore's reliance on incineration for its trash.

A longtime union leader, Jones ran a progressive campaign to unseat a two-term East Baltimore stalwart. He joins a wave of young, progressive-leaning candidates set to join the council.

While Baltimore has been slow to spend much of its American Rescue Plan Act funding, a change in oversight requirements has left the city nearly in compliance with an end-of-2024 federal deadline.

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori on Wednesday announced a final church consolidation plan that would reduce the number of worship sites from 59 to 30. Many churches would get folded into merged parishes.

Nick Mosby’s last campaign looked a lot like that of his ex-wife, Marilyn Mosby. What happens next for the onetime Baltimore power couple is anyone’s guess.

Zeke Cohen jumped out to an early lead Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Baltimore City Council president, as initial returns showed the 1st District councilman a few thousand votes ahead both incumbent Nick Mosby and Shannon Sneed.

Cohen has not masked his ambitions for higher office, even publicly flirting with a run for mayor this year.

Victory could offer four years to reset his political career. Losing would close, at least for now, a decade-long chapter in which the Mosbys have commanded the political spotlight in Baltimore.

When Sneed jumped into the race last October, she entered as an underdog in a contest that already pitted an embattled incumbent against a formidably financed council colleague.

Incumbent Council President Mosby also amped up his spending in April while bringing in a modest $13,500.

Backers of the city’s public financing system, including the City Council member who introduced the legislation to establish the program, called on Vignarajah Thursday to return the money.