Nick Thieme

Baltimore Circuit Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill said he's confident that the case will eventually reach the Maryland Supreme Court.

A hearing to examine Baltimore’s opioid overdose crisis was abruptly canceled Wednesday morning as a dispute between Mayor Brandon Scott and the City Council member who’d called the meeting boiled over and became public.

Baltimore’s unprecedented overdose crisis has not been suffered equally. Neighborhoods with the highest overdose rates were often the same ones with the highest rates of poverty, a Banner analysis found.

A yearlong investigation recently published by The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times revealed an unprecedented overdose crisis gripping Baltimore.

The Baltimore City Council will hold at least four oversight hearings examining the city’s response to its unprecedented overdose epidemic.

Councilman Mark Conway plans to introduce legislation on Monday to convene a hearing in late June.

Many are dying from fentanyl and other drugs. The hardest-hit are Black men in their 50s to 70s, a group that Baltimore’s changing economy left behind.

The city has become the U.S. overdose capital, and older Black men are dying at higher rates than anyone else.

Unprecedented overdose rates from fentanyl and other drugs have left signs of loss across the city.

The same drug that Jackie Ferguson had used to ease her mother’s pain had also taken her son Jaylon’s life.

The city was once hailed for its response to addiction. But as fentanyl flooded the streets and officials shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights.

Nearly 6,000 people have died over the past six years — an unparalleled number among U.S. cities.

Life as a highway construction worker: We ‘don’t know who’s gonna go home that day’

Read Street has become a vibrant community of Black-owned residences, buildings, and businesses with five Black-owned stores opening in just the two years since pandemic lockdowns abated.

Reporters with The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times are investigating the problem of drug overdoses and we want to hear from those with personal experiences.

Individuals don’t understand crime in their neighborhood, but communities do.

In the mayor’s race, Fox45 viewers prefer Sheila Dixon or some other candidate. WBAL viewers prefer Mayor Brandon Scott.

Donald Lawson was last heard from more than two weeks ago when he lost contact with his wife almost 300 miles off the coast of Acapulco in the Pacific Ocean.

A Mexican search plane spotted a racing yacht believed to belong to the missing Baltimore sailor Donald Lawson 275 nautical miles off the coast of Acapulco.

The majority Black neighborhoods known as the “Black Butterfly” has gone through a metamorphosis over the last 80 years. What began as small enclaves in Central Baltimore has spread its wings into the county.