Unreliable public transportation turns school choice into a false promise.

Baltimore Police say 201 people were killed in 2024, with more than 400 people shot and wounded.

Baltimore County Police have arrested Mark Jones, 30, and charged him with the killing of his son and shooting two others in Rosedale on Christmas Eve.

Maryland lawmakers joined a chorus of mourners in remembering the life of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States and 2002 Nobel Prize winner, who died on Sunday at 100.

Check out our map to see the restaurants that closed in 2024, from established chains like Red Lobster in Howard County to newbies like JBGB’s in Baltimore’s Remington.

A bank has filed to foreclose on a high-profile Chasen Cos. property at 1400 Aliceanna St.

Search our database to see which Maryland schools earned a 5-star rating.

How many stars did your school earn this year? The answer is coming later today.

State officials say they don’t have a statewide map of Maryland precincts. The Banner compiled as many maps from counties as we could and approximated the others.

Most impoverished communities voted to approve the David Smith-backed measure to shrink the Baltimore City Council from 14 to eight, precinct-level data shows.

Critics have said the ballot measure to shrink the Baltimore City Council will disenfranchise majority-Black neighborhoods. A Banner analysis found the vast majority of signers live in those neighborhoods and are Democrats. But why did they sign?

Facing lien petitions, contract disputes and a foreclosure, the Baltimore real estate company has reached a tipping point.

With mortgage rates coming down, relief could be on the horizon for Baltimore-area homebuyers, home sellers and home builders alike.

You can explore your test scores at your local school, or at any school in Maryland, on our searchable tables.

Students in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Howard and Baltimore counties made steady progress on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program, known as MCAP.

Maryland has sent athletes to the 2024 Paris Olympics at one of the highest rates in the United States, a Baltimore Banner analysis found.

The namesake company of Baltimore developer Brandon Chasen is facing additional legal troubles large and small.

In court documents filed on April 15 but not previously available in Baltimore Circuit Court, Patriot Steel Fabrication Inc., a firm based in Church Creek, Dorchester County, asserts that Chasen Cos. owes the business more than $915,000.

Brandon Chasen’s development company is dialing back its national expansion plans and slowing its pace in Baltimore, too.

If this pace continues, the Orioles’ attendance will be over 2 million for the first time since 2017, before the team’s rebuild began.