While nearly every local government in Maryland took federal COVID relief money, three tiny towns chose not to.

Two months after the primary, Maryland’s electorate has coalesced behind party nominees in the general election race to succeed term-limited Gov. Larry Hogan, but at the same time, held firm on some issues, such as their opinions of President Biden and former president Trump, their frustration with inflation and their attitudes toward abortion.

The series tapped into the cultural zeitgeist to a degree unprecedented for a podcast, spawning "Saturday Night Live" parodies and a true crime phenomenon that continues to this day.

Consumer advocates have complained for years that renters cannot easily view these bills, making them susceptible to bogus charges from landlords.

Baltimore officials lifted Friday morning a five-day boil water advisory after the latest string of water tests came back negative for evidence of E. coli and coliform in city water.

City still working to identify source of the contamination.

About twenty months into his job, Shorter has led much of what Scott has described as his administration’s foundational work, but many of his boss’s well-publicized goals remain in the planning stages. Some in City Hall say the CAO has made their lives easier, while others feel the office is just another layer of bureaucracy. Everyone agrees his work is cut out for him.

Much of West Baltimore is under a boil water advisory Tuesday, and city officials are limiting residents top three gallons of bottled water per household.

The debate, scheduled for Oct. 12, will feature the two leading candidates to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

Ted Carter, the deputy mayor for community and economic development, oversees 14 agencies with a combined $1 billion budget. His portfolio includes housing, planning, workforce and tourism.

Officials cited low-staffed crews and growing amounts of recycling pickup as obstacles at a Department of Public Works oversight hearing on Wednesday.

A series of cascading errors by Baltimore’s finance department and city vendors led the Bureau of Revenue Collections to inadvertently send the wrong company a check for $2 million, nearly $60,000 of which cannot be recovered, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General.

The attorney has served as Scott’s right hand for three years, providing a source of stability for the mayor across different political offices and the tumult of the pandemic.

The charter amendment is now slated to go before city voters in November's general election. It calls for a drastic overhaul of the board, which consists mainly of elected officials the office may investigate and people they designate.

The first round of mail ballot counting is expected to last into next week.

It's still mathematically possible for Tom Perez to overtake Wes Moore in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, but one expert said: "I don't think Perez has a chance."

Hundreds of thousands of election day and mail-in ballots were yet to be counted.

Baltimore Police to increase presence after fatal encounter between squeegee workers and a bat-wielding driver.

The philosopher’s agenda aims to reduce the hours that Marylanders spend working to foster “simpler lives with less stuff,” a culture that values community and environmental stewardship.

The pilot program aims to reroute a small fraction of 911 calls to the crisis center: specifically, those in which callers have thoughts about committing suicide, but no weapons or concrete plans to carry out those thoughts.