On Nov. 22, Anne Arundel County leaders will formally apologize for the county’s role in enforcing and supporting slavery. The issue is personal for County Executive Steuart Pittman, who grew up and lives on land where people were held in slavery.

The local NAACP says it was never consulted about the Anne Arundel County formal apology for slavery, despite its name appearing on communication about it. What happened?

Arundel Mills celebrated its 25th anniversary this week and is looking to the future. Toy retailer Toys R Us is opening a flagship location in the mall later this week, and online furniture giant Wayfair plans to open an outlet store there in 2026.

The 14 part-time librarians who were laid off by Baltimore County’s library system this week have been reinstated “effective immediately,” library officials said Friday.

Air travel at BWI Airport is expected to normalize by Thanksgiving. What else should Maryland travelers know?

The planned development, which is a three-story timber building with a restaurant on the ground floor and six apartments on the second and third floors at 161 West St., was first approved in 2023.

Democratic candidates for mayor and all eight city council seats in Annapolis lead in this year’s general election after mail-in ballots were counted Thursday.

In the race for Ward 1 alderman, incumbent Harry Huntley is 10 votes behind his challenger, Thomas Krieck, who ran unaffiliated.

Democratic candidates held the lead in the mayoral race and in seven of the eight races for City Council. The number of Democratic mail-in ballots far outnumbers the number of Republican and unaffiliated mail-in ballots yet to be counted.

Shoppers can get up to two hours of free parking in downtown Annapolis during the holiday season.

An Anne Arundel County man was arrested this week after threatening to “kill all of the judges” and his probation officer, according to court records.

Here’s who’s running to be mayor and on the City Council in Annapolis.

The Market House lease will extend from 2033 through 2038, with possible extensions.

Jim Frazetti of Anne Arundel County is the 26th person to be named a Maryland Master Angler by catching 10 out of a list of 60 qualifying fish species found in the state.

This is the sixth year that the Downtown Partnership has worked with other groups to bring gigantic pumpkins to downtown Annapolis, where they are carved by local artists.

The president and CEO of the National Aquarium in Baltimore, John Racanelli, is retiring “by the end of the year,” aquarium officials said Thursday.

A man and his wife, both 90 years old, died over the weekend in a single-vehicle crash in West River, Anne Arundel County Police said.

Anne Arundel County will contribute $10.6 million toward project planning and construction to widen I-97 between Route 32 in Millersville and U.S. 50 in Annapolis.

The fifth time was the charm for Sharon Lane, a Maryland native who landed a hard-to-get spot at the Maryland Renaissance Festival this year. The sold-out festival in Anne Arundel County concludes this weekend.

Ten new tenants, including Tesla, Uniqlo and Swarovski, are expected to open at Annapolis Mall by the end of next year, according to an update from the mall.