Local government

After a years-long campaign by environmental advocates, top Maryland lawmakers want to cut off a program that has paid tens of millions of dollars in green energy subsidies to incinerators.

Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen directed his staff to use a code on electronic timesheets to boost their wages, triggering an improper calculation that cost the city more than $2.2 million, the city’s inspector general has found.

Two polls in the last month found housing was the top concern.

A Baltimore Banner review found the city has spent tens of millions of dollars since 2022 on three different firms hired to bolster the city’s workforce, and millions more have been committed.

The councilman says he just wants to save lives. The mayor’s office says he’s an attention seeker playing political games.

Residents in Baltimore and around Maryland have been outraged for weeks over high BGE bills, especially for natural gas.

Leaders of the agency and across the state said they hoped the money would help set the housing authority on the right course.

If there were a vacancy on the Baltimore County Council today, it would be filled by the county executive. Some want to change that.

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.