Community issues

Heavy downpours swept through Maryland on Wednesday, triggering flash flood warnings, toppling trees and delaying the Orioles game at Camden Yards.

Bark Social, the beloved dog park and beer garden combo, is back in Baltimore with some former employees and new ownership.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Reps. Kweisi Mfume and Sarah Elfreth, all Democrats, said they are seeking transparency from an increasingly opaque deportation process under the Trump administration.

High heat in Maryland has killed more people so far this year than in all of 2024.

Baltimore contemporary jewelry maker Betty Cooke was an icon of minimalist art design.

The case centers on a standing order issued in May by Chief Judge George L. Russell III, in which he ordered a 48-hour pause in every case in which an immigrant had tried to block deportation by challenging the legality of their detention.

Residents of the Hillsmere Shores community in Annapolis discovered a man’s body in Duvall Creek near a kayak launch Sunday, prompting a police investigation.

Bob Seurkamp, the "first first man" of Notre Dame University of Maryland and a former executive director of the Maryland Governor’s Workforce Investment Board, died in July of heart failure.

The BMORE Bus plan, released in June, calls for increasing the frequency of bus service on all MTA routes and adding new, limited-stop express routes, among other improvements.

A Baltimore grandmother said she’s devastated after a 38-year-old man was killed in a mass shooting in the Park Heights neighborhood on Saturday.

The pools in Baltimore County are inviting for families, but not everyone can afford such luxury.

Maternal mental health has declined significantly across the nation in the last decade. That trend holds true in Baltimore, experts say

Here are seven things to do in Baltimore County for the week ending Aug. 20, 2025.

Maryland and other blue states have been met with funding denials, program cuts and other means that hurt their constituents under the Trump administration.

A toddler was airlifted to the hospital and faces life-threatening injuries after falling from a sixth-story balcony of a College Park apartment, officials said.

The U.S. Naval Academy will have its change of command ceremony for the new superintendent on Friday.

Tropical Storm Erin formed Monday in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean and could become the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season later this week, forecasters say.

Howard County is launching a guaranteed basic income pilot program to study how transformative $1,000 monthly cash payments would be for 20 needy families.

A Columbia man, Charles Epperson Jr., pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal January shooting of Lance Carrington in Howard County, prosecutors said.

Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, said he and a bipartisan team of senators worked with Trump administration officials to secure the release of citizens wrongfully detained.