The only member of council who can cancel another’s hearing, City Council President Zeke Cohen had avoided wading into the back and forth. Until now.

Byron represented Western Maryland in the House of Representatives for seven terms.

Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen directed his staff to use a code on electronic timesheets to boost their wages, triggering an improper calculation that cost the city more than $2.2 million, the city’s inspector general has found.

A Baltimore Banner review found the city has spent tens of millions of dollars since 2022 on three different firms hired to bolster the city’s workforce, and millions more have been committed.

The councilman says he just wants to save lives. The mayor’s office says he’s an attention seeker playing political games.

A Baltimore Police officer who once shot a city teen holding a BB gun and dinged the car of a passerby will likely cost the city $720,000 this week to settle a lawsuit with a different man who lost a leg in a crash with the officer.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott raised more than $400,000 for his inaugural festivities last year from some of the region’s most prominent and politically connected health, utility and real estate companies.

What we know about President Donald Trump’s temporary pause on federal spending and its impact on Marylanders.

State officials and nonprofit leaders reported they were locked out of federal systems used to draw down federal funds for Medicaid reimbursements and financing basic needs for low-earning Marylanders.

The joint statement endorsed by Mayor Brandon Scott and city officials said they are pursuing legal action in an effort to prevent cuts to funding Baltimore uses.

It’s time for Baltimore’s landmark Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower to get a facelift. As the city cuts ties with BOPA, the nonprofit that has managed the tower for years, it’s unclear who will oversee the project.

Baltimore’s mayor-controlled spending board voted to increase the city’s water and sewer rates by as much as 15% after hearing objections from residents.

A Justice Department official directed prosecutors across the nation to investigate and charge officials who don’t comply in carrying out the administration’s mass deportation agenda

The $11.8 million investment, on top of the $12.5 million spent recently on stonework renovations, will complete an exterior rehabilitation of City Hall that will carry the building years into the future.

It may be a new year, but for Mayor Brandon Scott and State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, it’s an auld feud.

Stephen Miller heads America First Legal, which sent warning letters to numerous officials in Maryland jurisdictions it accused of “concealing, harboring or shielding” immigrants.

Here are six stories The Banner’s political team can’t stop thinking about.

What seemed to be the certain destruction of Camp Small has instead brought unexpected opportunity.

Mayor Brandon Scott, who had to fight through a difficult primary in May, won a second term last month and retook the oath of office Dec. 3, said Wednesday the election was not a factor in his decision to seek a rate increase this month.

The 27-page report, released Wednesday, undercuts accusations of cronyism that swirled around Olszewski this year as he mounted a campaign for Congress.