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    A car pulls out of a Fells Point apartment complex on June 16, 2025. A proposed bill before Baltimore City Council would eliminate the requirement that many new housing and retail developments provide off-street parking like garages.
    Baltimore eyes eliminating requirement for developers to build parking
    A new bill before the Baltimore City Council would eliminate the requirement to provide a minimum amount of off-street parking for new development.
    A Fly Play Airbus A321 lands at Lisbon airport, as night falls Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
    European budget airline to end flights to BWI
    Play began services at BWI in 2022, providing budget-friendly tickets to Iceland and connecting flights across Europe.
    A participant in the Baltimore Trans Pride Grand March poses for a photo in Baltimore, MD on 6/29/2024.
    Weekend traffic: Baltimore Pride festivities, Orioles games and other events to bring road closures
    It will be busy in Baltimore this weekend with Pride events, the Charles Street Promenade, Orioles games and other festivals happening around the city. The Baltimore City Department of Transportation announced road closures for this weekend.
    The site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and the Dali, seen from a debris retrieval vessel in April 2024.
    Hours before Key Bridge collapse, Dali crew discussed flagging in-port blackouts
    An NTSB transcript sheds light on the Dali container ship’s in-port blackouts hours before the Key Bridge collapse. Some experts say there is evidence that an important safety step was skipped before the Dali departed Baltimore.
    A photo of Buster Hughes is kept on the door of his workshop by Christopher McNally, who knew him for more than 20 years. June 11, 2025
    Ticket to Pride: Event honors Buster Hughes, gay rights activist and streetcar enthusiast
    On Friday, two of the most important parts of the life of the late Buster Hughes will come together as the Baltimore Streetcar Museum hosts its first Pride party.
    Drivers can expect three more years of major work on I-695. But officials say it's worth the wait.
    3 more years of major I-695 work ahead, but officials say the wait is worth it
    There’s an end in sight for miles upon miles of roadwork on Interstate 695 — it’s just not coming this year. Or next. Or even the one after that.
    A northbound MARC train pulls away from the station in Odenton. The northwest parking lot of the station is slated for redevelopment.
    Maryland announces $1.25 million in grants for development around rail stations
    The announcement comes as Maryland is trying to double down on a bet that transit hubs can help turn the tide on climate and housing affordability issues.
    A busy roadway of cars. A two-way bike path is to the left of the cars and several people are walking away from the camera in the distance in it.
    Maryland plans more ‘quick build’ road safety changes, citing success across state
    Planners have a menu of traffic calming measures to consider for each site.
    FILE - A military aircraft waits for migrants to board from a bus at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Tx., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, before deporting them to Guatemala.
    Trump wants to speed up deportations. A Baltimore judge’s move may slow them.
    A recent order from a federal district court judge in Baltimore may slow President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda in Maryland.
    A hotel and mixed-use development fills what once was the eastern portion of Rochester, N.Y.’s Inner Loop East highway.
    Rochester gave up on a highway and filled it in. Should Baltimore?
    Rochester gave up lanes of highway traffic to turn a trench into green space — and wants to do more.
    Howard County school bus driver Javion Hinmon waits to depart on a practice route in Hanover last year.
    More Howard County students will be able to ride the bus this fall. Will yours?
    With more Howard County Public Schools students eligible to ride a yellow school bus this August, families can check an online map to verify their transportation for the 2025-26 academic year.
    The Maryland Department of Transportation hopes to ease traffic, like on the Jones Falls Expressway, with incentives for car- and van-pooling.
    Maryland wants to pay you to carpool to work. Here’s how to cash in.
    Encouraging carpooling is part of Maryland's attempt to reduce the impact vehicles have on the environment.
    New transcript reveals frantic scene aboard Dali before Key Bridge collapse
    A newly released transcript details, first, unremarkable conversation, and, later, the frenzied moments before and after the Dali knocked over the Key Bridge.
    The Kensington Expressway, looking south in Buffalo, N.Y.
    Buffalo’s $1 billion cautionary tale for Baltimore’s ‘Highway to Nowhere’
    Buffalo’s plan to turn part of an expressway into a tunnel covered by green space got funded, and then got controversial.
    Southwest Airlines accounts for about 70% of airline traffic at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
    Final boarding call for free bags at Southwest as airline abandons perk
    It’s the last day to book a flight on Southwest Airlines without being hit with a fee to check bags after the airline abandoned a decades-long luggage policy.
    A pothole on the Jones Falls Expressway in Baltimore.
    Baltimore’s janky, pothole-filled roads have long been neglected — that may be changing
    City transportation officials aim to cover 111 miles of streets before the weather gets too cold to lay asphalt.
    The Maryland State Police logo emblazoned on a lectern in front a police vehicle from a separate agency before a press conference, pictured outside the Maryland State Police Glen Burnie Barracks on 11/10/22.
    Two dead in weekend pile-up on I-70 in Frederick County
    Maryland State Police investigate a double fatal traffic crash in Frederick County on Sunday afternoon.
    Numerous streets will be closed for Artscape, Deathfest, Festival of India, and more events starting on Friday.
    Artscape, Deathfest and more: Here’s what to know about traffic & parking this weekend
    There’s a lot going on in Baltimore over Memorial Day weekend. Here’s what you need to know about traffic and parking restrictions.
    A silver and blue Amtrak train emerges from a tunnel. In the background trees and a small piece of the Baltimore skyline are visible.
    Is Elon Musk boring his way into Baltimore tunnels?
    Though construction has begun for the multiyear, $6 billion project, major digging is still at least a year away.
    A Southwest Airlines jet takes off from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
    Southwest Airlines will require chargers be kept out while in use because of battery fire concerns
    Southwest is the first U.S. airline to restrict the use of portable chargers like this.
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