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?

High property values and relative population density have given the town an outsized importance in the county’s economic picture.

The owner and the manager of the container ship that caused the Key Bridge collapse, killing six bridge workers, have agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department. DOJ blamed the Singapore-based companies for a “cascading series of failures.”

“We don’t have a sense of when it may happen again, we don’t have a sense of what to do differently,” Councilman Mark Conway said.

Willy Fink and Sara Kenefick were the winners in the Baltimore Running Festival event.

A 41-year-old garbage worker was outside of the garbage truck he was operating when it began to roll.

BOPA CEO Rachel Graham said the arts council is still planning to put on a fireworks display for New Year’s Eve and to organize a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.

Baltimore for a New Harborplace reported receiving no donations while owing more than $100,000 to political strategy firms for “field expenses” and “media.”

Stop Sinclair has $155,952 on hand, a sizable advantage over Baltimore County media executive David Smith’s group, which has just over $5,100 in its account.

Thursday’s ruling means voters will cast ballots on a charter amendment which would allow MCB Real Estate, a private company, to redevelop the site of the existing Harborplace pavilions.

The detailed plan would redirect all money the city gives the nonprofit to a wing of the mayor’s office and other organizations to put on BOPA’s signature events.

The plan would set the property tax rate on vacant properties at triple the current level for the first year it is in effect and then quadruple the current rate in subsequent years.

The fate of a nearly $1 billion plan to reimagine Baltimore’s downtown waterfront now rests in the hands of judges.

Baltimore’s City Hall may have fumbled a chance to put its highest priority issue before voters.

BOPA says the money was meant for the organization; the mayor’s office said it was a restricted grant that was always meant for the city.

The typical female brown rat has about five litters a year, with up to 12 “pups” a litter.

What we know six months after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse — and what will surface in the years to come.

How campaign finance records reveal the palates of Baltimore’s politicos.

Maryland Elections Administrator Jared DeMarinis wrote on social media that his agency made the request in an effort to prevent “potential disenfranchisement” or “undervoting” while an appeal is ongoing.

At the same time the city’s top arts organization was struggling to make payroll, its CEO went ahead with plans for Artscape, BOPA’s premier event, without consulting anyone.