The ballot measure to expand Baltimore County Council is aimed at bringing diversity to the all-male and mostly white council.

Some question Baltimore County’s plans to spend more than $6 million in county funds to renovate Rocky Point Golf Course’s clubhouse. The county’s Revenue Authority, which oversees golf courses and parking garages, typically pays for such projects.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. and other county leaders this week criticized the Maryland Department of Transportation for cutting funding and slow-walking important county transit projects.

The Fort Howard Haunted Dungeons are spooky, scary fun.

Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan wants residents to vote for a charter amendment making her office permanent.

A Baltimore community of animal lovers banded together over Facebook to rescue a goat.

The Baltimore County Council voted not to change the maps that accompany a ballot question on whether to expand the council.

The Baltimore County Council has approved the nominations of Joseph W. Dixon as fire chief, and of C. Scott Holupka and Emily Brophy to be Planning Board chair and vice chair, respectively.

Some Baltimore County residents are expressing concern about County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s efforts to shape the makeup of the Planning Board shortly before voters head to the polls to consider term limits and City Council approval for planning board members.

Junius Wilson, the outsider artist, shows off his work in Egyptian garb as he prepares for show at the American Visionary Art Museum.

Brown boobies, rare birds native to the tropics, are getting comfortable on buoys in the Chesapeake.

Baltimore County is buying land for a waterfront park less than a mile from County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s Millers Island home. Some have questioned whether the county followed the protocol that it used for other proposed park acquisitions.

The Baltimore County Council passed legislation to tax vacant structures and direct the revenue to funds that help find housing and fix up vacant buildings.

Resnick was a dedicated philanthropist for many Jewish causes, served on the board of Morgan State University and helped to establish The University of Maryland Foundation and the Signal 13 Foundation.

The annual event is focused on bringing senior citizens out of their homes for some camaraderie, entertainment, and a little bit of education.

Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young is trying to change a recently passed law that will put a referendum on the fall ballot to expand the council for the first time since 1956.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. has nominated Joseph W. Dixon, the former chief of Gainesville, Florida, to lead the county Fire Department. He would be the county’s first Black fire chief.

Neighbors entered the normally locked gates surrounding the C.P Crane plant site to hear that their efforts paid off. C.P. Crane will become a waterfront park.

School lockdowns happen all the time but one reporter almost ignored the text messages from her daughter: “Mom. Something is happening.”

State senators and delegates from Baltimore County have become the latest to criticize grid operator PJM over the proposed 70-mile transmission line.