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MTA Administrator Holly Arnold said the agency would need a new bus depot to meaningfully expand service.
Can MTA’s new budget get Baltimore students to school on time?
It could mean years before as many as 25,000 Baltimore City Public Schools students see much change in their journeys to school.
Patty Morin, center, mother of Rachel Morin, during a press conference outside the circuit court for Harford County in Bel Air last month.
Rachel Morin’s children file new lawsuit against their grandmother and aunt
The five children of Rachel Morin, the Bel Air woman slain on a hiking trail in 2023, have again filed a lawsuit against their grandmother and aunt.
Lake Kittamaqundi and downtown Columbia.
Bill Ackman’s hedge fund just got closer to buying up downtown Columbia developer
Billionaire Bill Ackman has increased his control of the real estate development company that owns much of Columbia, further tethering the Maryland town’s interests to one of the richest people in the world.
Reporter Alissa Zhu, center left, and photojournalist Jessica Gallagher, center right, celebrate with the Baltimore Banner newsroom as they find out they've won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting on Monday, May 5, 2025.
Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis
The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.
6/28/22—the exterior of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse.
Mother pleads guilty to murder for killing her 1-year-old daughter in Baltimore
Aurielle Montgomery, 23, of Pikesville, faces between 10 years and 22 years in prison at sentencing on July 16 in Baltimore Circuit Court on one count of second-degree depraved heart murder.
Baltimore Police officers respond to the scene after a child was shot in the 800 block of Vine Street on Saturday, May 3, 2025.
6-year-old boy found dead with gunshot wound inside Baltimore home, police say
A 6-year-old boy was found dead with a gunshot wound inside a Southwest Baltimore home, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said Saturday.
All of the students on the bus attend Millersville Elementary School, according to officials.
School bus crashes into tree in Anne Arundel County, with minor injuries to students
All of the students attend Millersville Elementary School, an official said.
Alcatraz Island is pictured on Sunday, May 4, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Trump says he’ll reopen Alcatraz for ‘most ruthless and violent offenders’
President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.
The Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail wants to bring a Superconducting Maglev to the Northeast, connecting Baltimore to Washington D.C. and eventually New York.
Letter: Maglev president says environmental review needed to embrace high-speed rail
Bill Scott, president of Northeast Maglev, says a quick finish to the project’s environmental review is necessary to give Marylanders the transportation upgrade they need.
The Baltimore City Department of Public Works distributes water in 2022 after E. coli bacteria was found in local drinking water. Baltimore is one of the cities awarded an environmental justice grant that the EPA plans to terminate. Among the grant's aims: water quality testing.
EPA funding cuts target disadvantaged communities, analysis shows
In its bid to resist a court order to unfreeze grants, the Trump administration reveals a laser focus on eliminating environmental justice aid.
Federal workers may ‘need to vent’: How to cope and manage workplace stress
Federal workers who are still on the job may find their changing commutes and positions stressful, but there are ways to cope.
Downed trees have caused the suspension of light rail service between North Avenue and Lutherville, the Maryland Transit Administration reported Sunday morning.
Storm damage near light rail could delay Orioles fans
Transit officials and the Baltimore Orioles are warning fans to leave extra time when taking light rail to Sunday afternoon’s game.
Letter: Private-school voucher programs should be preserved
A letter writer defends private-school vouchers, saying public schools have underperformed and harmed special education students like his brother.
FiFi the Poodle, center, the race’s heaviest sculpture, makes her way down Key Highway to kick off the Kinetic Sculpture Race on Saturday.
While Kentucky had horse races, Baltimore had its own annual race with crocodiles, poodles and more
Celebrating its 25th year, Baltimore’s favorite spectator sport, the Kinetic Sculpture Race, took to the streets Saturday.
Baltimore family demands answers after finding aunt dead in a safe
Police said they are investigating the death of 53-year-old Dawn White, found dead inside her home on Benzinger Road in April.
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Terry "TSU Terry" Wedington performs three classic Baltimore dance moves.
Baltimore club music says ‘Wut Wut’ to the world with ‘Fortnite’ emote
Baltimore Club music and its dance culture have reached plenty of milestones over the years. Add “Fortnite” to the list.
Dueling signs about a proposed maglev train are planted outside a library branch in Greenbelt, where elected officials held a meeting opposing the project earlier this month.
Letter: Maglev isn’t the future Maryland needs
Martin Mitchell, a former at-large Laurel City Council member, says the proposed SCMaglev train will be expensive, unfriendly to commuters, inequitable, and will travel through protected land.
Baltimore County Police say gunfire broke out just after midnight Friday in the parking lot of a shopping center along Woodlawn Drive.
4 injured after shooting outside Baltimore County shopping center
Baltimore County Police say gunfire broke out just after midnight Friday in the parking lot of a shopping center along Woodlawn Drive.
Protesters gather at McKeldin Plaza in Baltimore after marching from around downtown Thursday.
Thousands of protesters hit Baltimore’s streets for May Day marches: ‘This is just amazing’
Several May Day marches filled the streets of Baltimore with about 3,000 protesters converging at the Inner Harbor's McKeldin Square.
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