Lillian Reed

Maryland Del. Vanessa Atterbeary, a Democrat, is running for Howard County executive in 2026, giving voters a chance to elect the first Black woman to the office.

Teen period clubs like the one at Mount Hebron High School have successfully expanded access to menstrual products in Howard County.

Here are seven things to do in Howard County, from a birding event to the All Things Go music festival.

In a new court filing, an appraiser for Second Chance says the IRS is waging a “scorched earth assault” on the Baltimore-based nonprofit that sells secondhand furniture and building supplies.

Vigilante mom Dieneba Sekou Traore was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after a Howard County jury found her guilty of shooting two teens in downtown Columbia.

Howard County police on Thursday detained a person following the fatal stabbing of a woman in Ellicott City

there are plenty of events coming up in Howard County geared toward bringing communities together on Sept. 11-17. Here are seven things to do that prioritize socializing over screentime.

"The Glow" is an annual backyard circus that draw performers from Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia to test-run their wildest acts.

Howard County received 58 applications for its first-ever Inspector General, an independent position that residents voted overwhelmingly to create last fall.

Dan Cox, a Republican who lost to Wes Moore, is representing plaintiffs in two federal discrimination cases against Howard County government, the police department and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

From the Clarksville Sunflower Festival to a Taylor Swift listening party, here are seven things to do in Howard County from Aug. 21-27.

A 93-year-old woman is dead after an on-duty Howard County Police officer struck her with an unmarked vehicle in a Columbia shopping center parking lot early Friday morning.

Ellicott City Partnership has parted ways with its executive director Sharon Christiansen at a time of significant consequence for the historic Main Street.

Howard County is launching a guaranteed basic income pilot program to study how transformative $1,000 monthly cash payments would be for 20 needy families.

Here are 7 things to do in Howard County from Thursday Aug. 7 through Wednesday Aug. 13, from the beginning of Restaurant and Craft Beverage Weeks to a Transition Repair Café.

Swimming access was central to Columbia’s planned design at a time when efforts to desegregate many Maryland pools sometimes resulted in racial violence.

Ellicott City’s Main Street Music Fest is canceled this year, but organizers promise the event will return in 2026.

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier believes the county's inclusion on the list was “in error.”

The Howard County Council raised penalties on for-profit house parties but acknowledged the emergency legislation had revealed weaknesses when it comes to short-term rentals.

For-profit house parties are raging in suburban Maryland, prompting Howard and Montgomery county officials to crack down on the practice.