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.

Here are seven things to do in Howard County, from a “Lilo & Stitch” viewing to a play fest for all.

Howard County Council chair Liz Walsh is running for County Executive in 2026, joining two other Democrats in a contested race for Calvin Ball's seat.

Here’s a look at seven things to do in Howard County for the week ending Wednesday July 16.

On July 1, Havre de Grace shut down the historic State Theater, saying the 300-seat venue had continued to hold events without a final permit.

A crash involving multiple vehicles slowed traffic to a crawl across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge’s westbound lanes during the July 4 holiday.

Howard County climate advocates and elected leaders made a bold push in 2023 to decarbonize building codes.

These candidates are running for Howard County Council in the 2026 election.

Howard County’s wildly popular reading competition, “Battle of the Books,” has been a hallmark event for fifth graders since 2008. This fall, adults will have the opportunity to compete in their own version.