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.

Baltimore County is among the state's most diverse, but its council is all male and almost all white. Can that change?

Baltimore County plans to spend $10 million in state open space money to turn 85 acres in the eastern part of the county into a new waterfront park. The site until recently was home to the Charles P. Crane Generating Station, a power plant that burned coal.

Two East Side community activists, Leah Biddinger and Kevin McDonough, work together to identify potential code violations in their community and alert Baltimore County officials.

Those seeking zoning changes in Baltimore County through a quadrennial process learned the fate of their proposals on Tuesday night. The County Council wrapped up work its Comprehensive Zoning Map Process.

The Baltimore County Council on Tuesday will adopt a comprehensive zoning map, something it does every four years. But critics say the process is anything but democratic, with individual council members deferring to one another on decisions in their respective districts. Some say this has put too much power in the hands of each council member.

More than 200 northern Baltimore County residents packed into Hereford High School’s auditorium to oppose a $424 million transmission line that would cut through pristine farmland and prized horse country to power both residential growth in Maryland and data center development in Virginia.

A stream in Oregon Ridge has been named after “Reds” Wolman, the famed Johns Hopkins scientist who would have turned 100 this week.

Months after the Baltimore County Council approved a plan to sell the historic Perry Hall Mansion for $5,000, a local businessman has advised the county that the proposed sale is no longer feasible. He cited community concerns about any restoration and reuse of the structure.

Baltimore County’s inspector general received 277 complaints in the most recently completed budget year, on matters ranging from misusing county computer systems to submitting fraudulent timesheets.

The council approved two amendments that County Executive Johnny Olzewski Jr.’s administration had requested.

As his congressional campaign enters a crucial phase, Baltimore County Democrat Johnny Olszewski Jr. has been facing renewed scrutiny over a controversial 2020 payment by the county to a retired firefighter.

No one seems to want a proposed 70-mile power transmission line that would run through Carroll, Frederick and Baltimore Counties. And no one seems to know exactly how to stop it.

David S. Lapp, the people’s counsel, wrote a letter voicing his worries about a proposed 70-mile power line to the managers of PJM Interconnection LLC, the utility that manages the power grid infrastructure in Maryland and 12 other states.

Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan found that 24 county employees were drawing pensions while collecting paychecks, and that some had done so for eight or nine years. The County Council often isn’t notified of such cases.

The Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project would bring a 70-mile energy transmission line to central Maryland. But the plan to slice through three counties to fuel data centers is worrying residents in Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick counties.

The Maryland Department of Transportation recently installed a historic marker on Route 413 in Crisfield to commemorate the 86th anniversary of a strike by about 600 workers — predominantly Black women — for fair wages in the seafood industry. It’s part of a statewide effort to recognize history that has been left out or gone unacknowledged.

Nearly 140 years ago, a white mob lynched a Black teenager in front of the old Towson jail. On Saturday, a ceremony remembers Howard Cooper.

Red Maple Place, a proposed 56-unit housing development in historic East Towson, will not be subject to new design standards.