Local government

Baltimore is sending at least eight officials to the annual International Council of Shopping Centers convention at a cost of more than $27,000, according to publicly available travel requests.

Ten Baltimore County residents gathered in front of county offices Friday morning to deliver a letter and a 260-signature petition urging County Executive Kathy Klausmeier to keep Inspector General Kelly Madigan in her role.

It's been two years since the “iconic” Columbia lakefront library project was announced. There’s been little movement on the project’s progress.

The councilmen are reacting to news that Madigan was notified by Klausmeier’s office that she wouldn’t be reappointed and that the inspector general’s job had been posted.

Both women were sent by ICE to detention facilities in New Jersey and Colorado over the weekend.

Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan was putting the finishing touches on her latest fraud investigation yesterday when her bosses told her she might be out of a job.

We’re deep into local budget season in Maryland, when decisions are made for spending nearly $28 billion on priorities and problems. Here’s what I learned by listening to hours of budget addresses this spring.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball filed emergency budget legislation Monday to provide up to $14.5 million in additional funding to the school system for the coming fiscal year.

The Maryland Child Alliance is back to collecting signatures to create a fund for parents of newborns.

A package of five bills will attempt to make it easier to build and redevelop Baltimore City properties.

Maryland wanted to make poor areas greener but instead it boosted the already rich and green neighborhood of Roland Park in Baltimore.

Nearly 1.3 million gallons of sewage overflowed in a Columbia townhouse community, the county health department said Friday. The agency has issued a precautionary health alert.

Only $2 million is slated to be available to community organizations interested in applying for grants this upcoming year.

Liberty Reservoir, one of the region’s key water resources, has dropped to its lowest point in nearly two decades.

The biggest political conversations in Howard County often happen at the Wilde Lake Village Starbucks.

It’s become of the mayor’s signature policies, but advocates are pushing him to up the ante.

City officials know of at least 12,000 federal employees who work in Baltimore, but there are untold more who commute to other locations or work from home in the city.

Dr. Ben Carson, who served as Donald Trump‘s housing secretary, is trying to turn 33 acres that he and his wife own into a solar farm.

Curtis Bay Energy and one top official pleaded guilty in 2023, but a judge cleared the former plant manager on all counts.

Buying the hotel would strengthen the Baltimore developer’s position downtown, where it already owns or controls multiple properties nearby, including Harborplace.