Council members opted to cut $600,000 from a $1.2 million request to renovate the historic Towson courthouse, where the County Council meets.

Baltimore longshoremen held a celebratory picnic at a park in Essex on Sunday to mark progress in reopening the Port of Baltimore. The refloating and move of the Dali, the container ship that crashed into the Key Bridge on March 26, will allow the port to get back to full strength.

Wealthy Maryland congressman has said he will back Democrat Angela Alsobrooks’ U.S. Senate bid in the fall, but has not signaled whether he’ll become a major financial supporter of her campaign.

The need for more fields in the county has become increasingly pressing since the 1980s.

Angela Alsobrooks won the Democratic primary for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday night and will face off against Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan in the general election.

Compared with our neighboring states, Maryland has been slow to adapt to the growing demand for safe cycling lanes, particularly over bridges.

The Baltimore City Council will vote this month on Bill 31-24, which would amend the county’s ordinance to tighten rules designed to ease or prevent overcrowded school districts.

Joanne Rund, who has served as Baltimore County's fire chief since 2019, is retiring effective July 2024. She is the county's first permanent fire chief and survived a no-confidence vote last June.

Baltimore County’s foreign-born population grew by 15,439 people from 2012 to 2022, an increase of 16.3%, census figures show. County officials want to make the immigrant experience less challenging for both parents and children.

Baltimore County Animal Services is waiving adoption fees for all pets and also throwing in some discounted and free pet perks. The perks last through Sunday, May 5, which is fitting since May is National Pet Month.

To win over voters, Trone combines restless energy with the feel-your-pain approach of former President Bill Clinton.

A 99-year-old World War II veteran who helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp shared his memories with Loyola Blakefield students on April 25, 2024. He was critical of student protesters who have invoked the Holocaust to taunt Jewish students.

The American Visionary Art Museum has confirmed that 80-year-old Junius Wilson of Woodlawn, who has created a backyard full of sculptures that evoke ancient Egypt, is one of four artists chosen so far for their fall 2025 show.

Trucks have long cut through neighborhoods around the Port of Baltimore, but residents say the problem is getting worse in the wake of the Key Bridge’s collapse.

Their collective samples became known as the GBMC slides. And after many years of these frozen slides growing ever colder, Baltimore County law enforcement announced its laboratory would process the remaining 1,400 slides by the end of 2024.

After an unusually rancorous appointment process, the County Council on Monday night approved D’Andrea L. Walker's appointment as county administrative officer, the second-highest position.

The wooded campus of Goucher College was once part of one of the largest plantations in the state of Maryland, where the Ridgely family enslaved hundreds of Black Marylanders. Three groups with a stake in the Ridgely plantation reunited this month for a descendant engagement symposium.

As leaders begin planning a new bridge to replace Baltimore’s fallen Key Bridge, some are already arguing that it should not bear the name of Francis Scott Key, an 18th century lawyer, author and poet who held racist views.

Two resolutions adopted by the Baltimore County Council on Monday night continued assistance to responders, families, businesses

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge might be more iconic, the Golden Gate might be prettier, but there was something so Baltimore about the Key Bridge. It wasn’t flashy, could be genuinely stunning, and did its job without attracting much attention until the day it collapsed.