Local government

As the administration of President Donald Trump pursues a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the agency’s environmental justice division already has faced cuts — and things could get worse.

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works director acknowledged, ‘We’re not where we need to be, but we’re going to get there.‘

Howard County Council is weighing a ban on hourly room rentals in an effort to curb human trafficking and prostitution.

Benjamin Schmitt, president of the Howard County Education Association, says students with disabilities deserve fairness when it comes to educational funding priorities.

The park includes playing fields, an indoor gym, and a new playground. It also features a 16,000-square-foot community center and an ADA-accessible fishing pier and kayak launch.

Baltimore’s population gains may be linked to broad economic factors outside the city’s control.

Nepali immigrant Nara Khakurel’s coffee shop in Towson is a nexus of jurors and Baltimore County officials.

Howard County has picked a design by county resident Esen Paradiso to be the new county flag. It replaces a design that’s been in place since 1968.

Environmentalists have pushed for years to no avail to end the state’s subsidy for trash incinerators, which burn garbage to produce electricity and steam.

Baltimore County government should reconsider its Urban Rural Demarcation Line to address its housing crisis, says Sharonda Dillard-Huffman, a candidate for Baltimore County Council.

Longtime political aide Anthony W. McCarthy died Sunday after a lengthy battle with kidney disease. He was 57.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said Friday that the school board’s $1.26 billion funding request is “unattainable and unaffordable.”

The end of Gavin Buckley's parade is in sight. Term-limited, the mayor leaves office in December for a return to the business that brought him to Annapolis, restaurants. Most mayors are soon forgotten. Will it be different for the brash Australian?

Immigrants and their attorneys claim there are no beds, little food and medicine at Baltimore’s ICE holding room.

Novelist Amitav Ghosh discusses climate change ahead of his address at Loyola University Maryland 2025 Humanities Symposium.

The Maryland General Assembly committees that oversee energy issues join a growing chorus of lawmakers and consumer advocates alarmed by rapidly rising utility bills.

Charm City has enough problems to overcome, and self-inflicted ones like poor permitting only make it more difficult.

A bill introduced last year to speedily renew the district became mired in the City Council, received no hearing and ultimately died at the end of the session.

More than 800 NOAA staffers fired last month as the Trump administration pushes aggressive tactics to winnow the federal workforce.

The state and county governments are making resources available for laid-off federal workers.