Local government

Hundreds of federal workers turned out for a forum in Howard County ahead of the Thursday night deadline to decide whether to take Elon Musk's resign-with-pay deal.

The owner of the commercial shopping center next to the Lutherville light rail stop is pledging to continue to work to add housing there, despite intense community opposition and resistance from the County Council.

A Baltimore Police officer who once shot a city teen holding a BB gun and dinged the car of a passerby will likely cost the city $720,000 this week to settle a lawsuit with a different man who lost a leg in a crash with the officer.

As executive director the Women’s Law Center of Maryland, Katie Curran O’Malley has the unprecedented task of guiding the 53-year-old organization through uncertain territory.

With BGE utility bills rising, Del. Elizabeth Embry, a Baltimore Democrat, recently introduced legislation to require more information about costly natural gas projects.

Baltimore County’s inspector general found that a former county DPW supervisor used a county vehicle to visit a sick, elderly relative during work hours 141 times in 16 months.

The Trump administration’s series of executive orders and immigration policies have left much of Maryland’s immigrant community anxious and fearful.

Baltimore receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant money. The city is suing President Donald Trump.

Neither solid granite nor uncertainty tied to President Donald Trump's federal funding freeze has stalled Howard County leaders’ plans to bore a mile-long tunnel from Ellicott City to the Patapsco River this fall.

The Maryland Democratic plan, announced Monday, drew pushback from climate advocates who warned about courting polluting fuels like natural gas.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott raised more than $400,000 for his inaugural festivities last year from some of the region’s most prominent and politically connected health, utility and real estate companies.

Chasen Cos., a Baltimore development firm faces new legal trouble after a bank alleged it defaulted on a nearly $14 million loan for properties in Fells Point.

In 2024, transportation officers wrote almost one-third fewer parking tickets than what they wrote two years prior, according to enforcement data.

The settlement, announced by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office Tuesday, comes less than a month after he filed a complaint before federal utility regulators calling on PJM Interconnection to impose a lower price cap on its next energy auction.

Trump, who campaigned on linking immigrants to criminality, has not specifically addressed how his immigration policies will affect the restaurant industry.

What we know about President Donald Trump’s temporary pause on federal spending and its impact on Marylanders.

The order from U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan came minutes before the funding freeze was scheduled to go into effect.

The joint statement endorsed by Mayor Brandon Scott and city officials said they are pursuing legal action in an effort to prevent cuts to funding Baltimore uses.

Annapolis and Anne Arundel argued that fossil fuel giants knew their businesses were driving the damaging consequences of climate change.