Local government

Baltimore County Councilman Izzy Patoka announced a run for the county executive position.

The Trump administration has said its strategy for third-country deportation is meant to be an inconvenience.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott tour the city in a community walk, pushing back on President Trump's narrative of Charm City.

Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy is changing roles as Baltimore faces criticism for its permitting overhaul.

About two dozen legislators and Democratic activists gathered in front of Baltimore County’s offices at the historic courthouse in Towson to protest what they consider an unjust redistricting map as well as an unfair process leading to it.

When Annapolis voters elect a new mayor this fall, he or she will need to focus on finishing the reinvention of City Dock, a project that awaits federal funding.

Baltimore County paid former chief of staff Patrick Murray $100,000 to settle a lawsuit that its inspector general filed against him.

Questions about how the city and state would respond to federal intervention come a day after Trump said he was sending troops to Chicago and suggested he would do the same in Baltimore.

Segments of the historic Superblock caught fire during Tuesday afternoon’s five-alarm blaze.

Howard County received 58 applications for its first-ever Inspector General, an independent position that residents voted overwhelmingly to create last fall.

Pack a lunch and bring a pillow. Baltimore County Council meetings have been lasting more than six hours, which some say may not be good for democracy.

President Donald Trump was declarative on his plans for Chicago but ambiguous when it came to Baltimore.

With President Donald Trump threatening to send the military to Baltimore, the situation in Washington is instructive to how things may unfold here.

Orphans' Court judges convinced the Baltimore County executive and council to give them $30,000 raises. It may have violated the Maryland Constitution.

Baltimore is now in its third consecutive year of steep declines in homicides and nonfatal shootings.

A new deputy mayor for economic development was not announced.

That billboard is still in downtown Annapolis. But wait. Is that an ad for The Baltimore Banner I see, floating majestically over City Dock? Why yes! Beauty, as I have just been reminded, is in the eye. Sometimes like a poke.

Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Cumming, a former prosecutor, offered a full-throated defense of her tweets, arguing that she posted each from her personal account.

Maryland’s chief medical examiner has ruled the death of a man who had been in Baltimore Police custody as a homicide, in what appears to be the first case with such a ruling since a scathing audit.

Julian Jones, a veteran Baltimore County Council member, is running for county executive in 2026. He would be the first Black person to hold the job.