Local government

Many of the federal workers who went to a recent food distribution event have spent their careers help others. More than a month into their furloughs, they're in dire need of assistance.

Two Silver Spring neighborhoods — one historically Black and the other historically off-limits to Black people — will come together by lantern light Saturday.

What to do about schools has long been a question for Annapolis. Keeping them from withering is the city’s next big challenge.

Anthony Barksdale, Baltimore’s deputy mayor for public safety and a former deputy police commissioner, died Thursday. He was 53.

Democratic candidates for mayor and all eight city council seats in Annapolis lead in this year’s general election after mail-in ballots were counted Thursday.

Howard County community members are questioning the political affiliations of Jean Xu, who is running as a Democrat for Howard County Council in 2026.

With the County Council’s expansion from seven seats to nine, the electoral contests have attracted four women candidates, three of them Black leaders.

In the race for Ward 1 alderman, incumbent Harry Huntley is 10 votes behind his challenger, Thomas Krieck, who ran unaffiliated.

Baltimore Gas and Electric has agreed to repay Baltimore City $670,000 after it was discovered the city was overcharged on numerous utility accounts.

Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman told The Banner that people “throughout the district” have encouraged him to run for County Council.

Ashman was reelected alongside City Council members Lisa Henderson and Jim McNulty, who ran together as a slate.

Democratic candidates held the lead in the mayoral race and in seven of the eight races for City Council. The number of Democratic mail-in ballots far outnumbers the number of Republican and unaffiliated mail-in ballots yet to be counted.

Drivers will now face a $60 fine and a traffic citation for parking in a bike lane in Montgomery County.

As Maryland lawmakers push for additional in-state power sources, Constellation Energy is providing them a range of options. Among them: generating natural gas, creating battery storage and more.

According to the state senator, the consultant she’s been charged with extorting was a “disgruntled woman” whom she fired from her first campaign in 2018 “for cause.” Attar does not state why.

A suite of housing and zoning reforms, once pie-in-the-sky dreams for some advocates, are now law in Baltimore, with Mayor Brandon Scott signing four bills Monday in a City Hall ceremony.

Forty-eight hours from Election Day, Democrat Jared Littmann’s campaign for mayor has an air of inevitability about it. How did Annapolis get to the point where the election feels like a foregone conclusion?

Mayor Brandon Scott, perhaps knowing he will one day have a portrait unveiling, kept his remarks gracious, respectful and relatively vague.

The amusement park, which first opened in the 1970s and has operated as a Six Flags since 1998, shuts down after it closes at 6 p.m. What’s next for the massive tract in Bowie remains unclear.

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier announced she will provide $4 million from the county coffers to assist furloughed federal workers and those set to lose their SNAP benefits as the Trump Administration continues to cut spending.