The council spent most of the three-hour hearing asking City Administrator Faith Leach high-level administration questions reflective of her office’s oversight, from the mayor’s plans for shelters for unhoused Baltimoreans to delays in a planned network of cycling and pedestrian trails.

Messaging from Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration in the days leading up to Memorial Day weekend — when enforcement of the city’s long-standing curfew kicks off again — has been muddled and at times misleading.

Police believe the shooter was targeting one person but fired multiple shots and also hit four others.

The annual International Council of Shopping Centers conference may not sound like one of the most fascinating weekends in the Baltimore and Maryland political scenes, but when else has a sitting mayor officiated the wedding of two top lobbyists?

The Moores will be featured as a couple who successfully found their match. A two-minute video clip shows the Moores on a couch in the governor’s mansion, holding hands and giving advice about finding a lifetime partner.

Comptroller Bill Henry has endorsed Zeke Cohen in his bid for City Council president, marking the first major endorsement of a challenger in Baltimore’s 2024 election season.

James and Doherty will fill roles that opened Monday, when the mayor asked Chezia Cager and Cirilo Manego to resign from their positions.

The Scott administration attempted to quell concerns that City Hall has a turnover problem, just one day after the Democrat asked both his chief of staff and communications director to step down.

Mayor Brandon Scott has asked chief of staff Chezia Cager and communications director Cirilo Manego to step down, according to multiple officials speaking on background who are not authorized to speak on personnel manners publicly.

You may be surprised to learn that there seems to be little rhyme or reason why government officials and agencies that were previously verified on Twitter lost or retained their checkmarks following the social media site's update in the past week.

Baltimoreans on Wednesday night will have the first of two chances to voice their feelings about Mayor Brandon Scott’s 2024 budget directly to City Hall, kicking off a historic budget season marking expanded budget authority for council members.

Two councils of a Maryland labor union representing thousands of public service workers announced they will merge, beginning in April.

Baltimore County Department of Corrections Director Walt Pesterfield said the county is working with potential partners to identify alternative housing options for juvenile detainees charged as adults and will share more in the coming weeks.

The announcement came with two weeks left for homeowners to pay outstanding taxes, but housing advocates say only changes to state and local law can ensure the system is more just.

More than halfway into his first term, Mayor Brandon Scott pitched Baltimoreans a renaissance of expanded city services, including longer recreation center hours and the return of weekly curbside recycling at Monday night’s State of the City address.

The gun used in the crime appears to have been an assault-style rifle based on the casings found at the scene, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said.

"I rise to stand with our colleagues in Tennessee. I rise to remind us of how delicate the fabric of this body is and how we must always work to defend and protect each other," Del. Jheanelle Wilkins said to her colleagues in the House of Delegates.

City officials voiced concern about the financial impact of ending tax sales after learning that Baltimore faced a $79 million increase in education spending — an unanticipated cost that Mayor Brandon Scott likened to a ”gut punch.”

For the first time since the Great Recession, the city will balance its budget by tapping a reserve fund typically used for legal settlements.

It’s spring the year before a Baltimore election — meaning consultants, elected officials and their potential challengers are quietly maneuvering to identify viable candidates.