Mayor Michael Estève said the rate increase was still 2 cents short of what’s needed to close the structural deficit in the city budget.

Bowie Mayor Michael Estève tells The Banner he wants to tackle residential speeding and attract new business to the city.

The Prince George’s County Council will have to address lingering effects from federal job cuts and increasing liabilities in the coming years.

A close reading of Prince George’s County’s 860-page budget, along with interviews with economists, suggests that the county’s toughest fiscal challenges lie ahead.

A new bill championed by Prince George's County council member Wanika Fisher passed unanimously. It will go into effect June 19.

The ACLU filed complaints against several Maryland police departments asking for formal apologies and reforms over the use of facial recognition technology they say landed an innocent woman in jail for half a year.

After large gatherings of teenagers turned violent, Baltimore officials are vowing to crack down on parents. Youth advocates, meanwhile, say the city is lacking in resources for young people.

Seeking to quell concerns about their plans to convert a sprawling Western Maryland warehouse into a makeshift detention facility, federal officials met with Washington County leadership to address the local impact.

Authorities said Dayton Webber was driving a Tesla with Bradrick Wells in the passenger seat when the shooting took place on Sunday night.

County commissioners detail their DHS meeting on the Williamsport ICE facility that could hold up to 1,500 detainees — including job projections and who would pay for infrastructure upgrades.

The University of Maryland hired a former Baltimore Police officer just months after he was accused of using excessive force during the Freddie Gray unrest, according to court documents and state officials.

A review of public contracting records by The Banner reveals details about the private companies that are helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement turn a massive Washington County warehouse into a detention center.

The Crisis Response Team was created nearly a decade ago, prompted in part by the federal investigation into the city’s police department following the 2015 in-custody death of Freddie Gray.

An internal investigation by the University of Maryland Police Department found that Meadows met the College Park student on a social media website known as “FET: Kinky BDSM Dating.”

Washington County commissioners declared support for the conversion of a sprawling warehouse outside Hagerstown into a proposed federal immigration detention facility on Tuesday.

Recent federal legislation championed by the administration of President Donald Trump has added hundreds of millions of dollars to immigration enforcement, leading to an expected spending spree to ramp up activities in states like Maryland.

The Baltimore Police Department is rolling out a new “citywide traffic team” focused on reducing fatal crashes and dangerous driving behaviors across the city.

A 48-year-old woman marched toward officers and threatened them with a large knife, prompting one to open fire and strike her twice in the leg, body camera footage released by the Baltimore Police Department shows.

Since 2021, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General has reviewed 86 cases in which someone was killed by police — and 20 of those cases involved mental health crises, according to a report released Thursday.

The Baltimore Police Department got a preliminary green light from the judge overseeing its federally mandated reforms, confirming that it’s on track to shed mandates for recruitment, hiring and technology.