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Hayes Gardner

Hayes

Hayes Gardner is a business reporter for The Baltimore Banner. He previously wrote for The Baltimore Sun, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Ames (Iowa) Tribune, covering a mix of sports, news and business. He was a member of a Courier-Journal team recognized as Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2021. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Hayes graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and then served two years as an AmeriCorps member at an education nonprofit in Oregon.

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Ravens to install solar panels at M&T Bank Stadium complex
Lumina Solar Inc., based in Baltimore County, will design and install the system.
The exterior of M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens, in South Baltimore.
Escalating Key Bridge price adds pressure to upcoming negotiations with builder
Despite Gov. Wes Moore’s repeated commitments to keep the Key Bridge rebuild on time and on budget, the project’s image took a hit last week as officials revealed that initial estimates were off by years and billions of dollars.
Exposed girders are seen as work continues on demolishing the southwest ramp to the Francis Scott Key Bridge in July.
Pricier Key Bridge rebuild to have over $1 billion in pier protection
The cost and duration of the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild significantly increased due to a larger span and extra pier protection.
Crane barges are seen at the Francis Scott Key Bridge site at sunrise as test piles are installed into the Patapsco River bed to test the strength and stability for the new bridge's foundation.
‘Needle in a haystack’: 5 takeaways from NTSB’s Key Bridge hearing
The National Transportation Safety Board met Tuesday to discuss the causes of the Key Bridge disaster. Here are five takeaways from the hearing.
Thomas Chapman of the National Transportation Safety Board questions investigators while examining a sample terminal block. A malfunctioning wire on the Dali container ship caused a chain of events that led to the Key Bridge collapse.
Key Bridge workers got no warning before collapse, NTSB says
Nearly 20 months after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River, federal officials are poised to make a final ruling about how it happened.
Marine Accident Investigator Marcel Muise, seated center, leads a staff presentation about the 2024 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse during a National Transportation Safety Board meeting in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Deal between Dali and US has left crew ‘marooned’ in Baltimore for 19 months
The NTSB will discuss probable cause of the Key Bridge collapse during a meeting Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, nine crew members of the Dali ship that struck the bridge are stuck in Baltimore under a deal between the ship owner and U.S. government.
Several members of the Dali's crew have remained in the Baltimore area since the Dali lost power and smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, killing six construction workers.
Key Bridge rebuild expected to cost billions more than preliminary estimate
The new bridge is now expected to open by the end of 2030 and cost between $4.3 billion and $5.2 billion — more than twice initial estimates — Bruce Gartner, executive director of the Maryland Transportation Authority, said Monday.
Crane barges are seen at the Francis Scott Key Bridge site at sunrise as test piles are installed into the Patapsco River bed to test the strength and stability for the new bridge's foundation.
Steph Curry and Under Armour separate, ending 12-year partnership
Stephen Curry and Under Armour reached a “long-term agreement” in 2023. That partnership is coming to a sudden end.
Stephen Curry during “Armour Day” at Carver Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore in September.
Royal Caribbean cruise ship to sail from Baltimore part-time in 2027
The Royal Caribbean ship, “Vision of the Seas,” will be returning to the Port of Baltimore in 2027 after the cruise line announced last year it would move the ship to Florida.
Royal Caribbean’s “Vision of the Seas” will sail from the Port of Baltimore again in 2027.
The federal shutdown is ending, but it’ll leave economic scars in Maryland
Much of the shutdown's economic harm will be "undone," but it still did some permanent damage to Maryland, a state especially reliant on federal dollars.
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 5: A pedestrian walks along Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol during sunrise on November 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. The record for longest shutdown in the U.S. Government was broken Wednesday as it entered its 36th day.
Longtime Under Armour CFO to be replaced by Samsonite executive
David Bergman has been a consistent presence as Under Armour’s chief financial officer since 2017, but he’ll depart his post next year.
Under Armour will begin moving into its new 280,000-square-foot global headquarters building in the Baltimore Peninsula next week.
A 145-ton hammer is installing the Key Bridge foundation
For hundreds of skinny, 220-foot rods to form the foundation of a new Francis Scott Key Bridge, contractors are deploying a huge hydraulic hammer that attaches to a crane barge.
A massive hydraulic hammer used to drive test piles into the Patapsco River bed sits aboard a Weeks 533 crane barge at the Key Bridge site on Wednesday.
Constellation pitches new nuclear reactors and batteries in Maryland
As Maryland lawmakers push for additional in-state power sources, Constellation Energy is providing them a range of options. Among them: generating natural gas, creating battery storage and more.
The Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center, Constellation’s nuclear power plant is located on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, Maryland.
‘That’s all folks!’ Future of Six Flags America site unclear as park closes Sunday
The amusement park, which first opened in the 1970s and has operated as a Six Flags since 1998, shuts down after it closes at 6 p.m. What’s next for the massive tract in Bowie remains unclear.
Visitors arrive to Six Flags America in Bowie, MD on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. The amusement park will close permanently at the end of the 2025 season.
T. Rowe Price teamed with Goldman Sachs as Trump loosens investment restrictions
Goldman Sachs bought $1 billion worth of T. Rowe Price stock. The partnership is the latest alliance between financial firms looking to unite retirement accounts with private investments.
The new T. Rowe Price global headquarters building is on the Harbor Point waterfront.
Technicians repairing cargo ship’s sails after trans-Atlantic voyage
The world’s largest sailing cargo ship crept up the Chesapeake Bay in the quiet, rainy hours of Thursday morning, squeezed under the Bay Bridge and berthed at the Dundalk Marine Terminal.
The Neoliner Origin, the first large wind-powered vessel to visit the Port of Baltimore, is seen docked at the Seagirt Marine Terminal after arriving before dawn on Thursday.
As design nears completion, state shares new Key Bridge renderings
The new Key Bridge will soon be 70% designed, a key checkpoint. As part of the process, engineers have generated more than 25,000 pages of calculations and reports.
The south approach view of updated rendering of plans for the rebuild of the Key Bridge.
World’s largest sailing cargo ship headed to Baltimore on inaugural voyage
With towering 300-foot sails — which need to be lowered to fit under the Bay Bridge — the Neoliner Origin will regularly unload automobiles, bottles of Hennessy and even cruising passengers at the Dundalk Marine Terminal.
The Neoliner Origin, pictured during a sea trial earlier this year, has two mainsails and two jibs.
Moore continued ‘sports diplomacy’ with Japan in Rubenstein’s suite
Gov. Wes Moore met this year with Japan’s ambassador to the U.S. It marked a collaboration between Moore and Rubenstein and a continuation of Moore’s penchant for using sports as a connector.
Gov. Wes Moore arrives for the Baltimore Orioles’ home opener in March. In May, Moore met with Japan’s ambassador to the U.S. in Orioles owner David Rubenstein’s Camden Yards suite.
Orioles to resod Camden Yards field as part of deal with LA Rams
The Orioles, who rent Camden Yards from the state, sublet the ballpark to the Rams for the week.
The outfield at Oriole Park has been transformed into a football practice field for the Los Angeles Rams as they prepare for a game this weekend in London.
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