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Baltimore’s brewing tax fight and other budget hearing takeaways
Baltimore City Council members pushed for property tax relief, drilled down on city collections and asked for additional funding to support the city’s immigrants during the first day of budget hearings.
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 — Venn McCormick of New Life Recovery Center testifies during a Baltimore City Council committee hearing on the opioid crisis.
All aboard the ‘bike bus’: Some Baltimore students have a new ride to school
Not only do the Baltimore kids get to school safely, but they start the day with physical activity that some parents think helps them focus in the classroom.
Letti Hoffberger rides next to her mom Lily Mitchell and brother Hayes Hoffberger on the way to Roland Park Elementary/Middle School with a “bike bus” group.
17 miles of new or improved bike lanes planned for Baltimore
Baltimore’s transportation department plans to add or improve 17 miles of dedicated bike lanes across the city over the next three years.
Plastic flexposts frequently get run over, ripped up or damaged. During a February 2026 winter storm, snow plows ripped up hundreds of them - including these ones on President Street downtown that alerted motorists to the bike lane.
Final tracks laid for Purple Line as transit project inches toward 2027 opening
The Purple Line, the long-delayed light rail project that will connect Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, has taken another ceremonial step toward completion.
State and local officials, including Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller, Gov. Wes Moore and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, participate in a ceremonial pin hammering marking the completion of the Purple Line in Silver Spring.
Amtrak cancels controversial vent for West Baltimore tunnel project, citing cost savings
After searching for ways to trim costs on the multi-billion-dollar tunnel replacement, Amtrak is eliminating plans for one of three ventilation facilities.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - JANUARY 30: An Amtrak train moves through the Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) Tunnel before an event featuring U.S. President Joe Biden at the site on January 30, 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland. The tunnel is 150 years old and is the biggest chokepoint in the rail system between New York City and Washington, DC and frequently causes delays of Amtrak, Maryland commuter trains and freight rail traffic. Biden is discussing how funding from the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will aim to rebuild and replace the tunnel.
These alerts vibrate, beep and flash with one goal: Saving Maryland road workers’ lives
Researchers at Morgan State University’s National Transportation Center have created a multisensory system to alert Maryland road workers to approaching speeding or erratic vehicles.
April 30, 2026 - Mojtaba Naseri, a researcher at Morgan State University, calibrates a mobile Lidar unit set up along Hillen Road as part of the team's new road worker safety alert system.
Kiewit-built Key Bridge could have cost $9 billion
Maryland worked closely for over a year with hired contractor Kiewit on plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge. But at the negotiating table, the parties were billions of dollars apart.
Crane barges are idle at sunrise at the Francis Scott Key Bridge site on the second anniversary of its catastrophic collapse.
Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown, these future lawyers are undeterred
Amid a rapidly changing legal landscape that is pushing immigration attorneys to their brink, these Baltimore law students aren’t deterred.
From left, University of Maryland immigration law students Fanglin Ding and David de Alva, joined by professor Cori Alonso-Yoder.
One seriously injured during overnight tour bus crash on 295, police say
U.S. Park Police said one person was injured after a tour bus traveling on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway overturned.
A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
Former US Rep. Eric Swalwell placed on leave from UMD law school board
Former U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell has been placed on leave from the Board of Visitors for the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, where he got his law degree in 2006.
Former U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell has been placed on leave from the Board of Visitors for the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law.
The Key Bridge took her daughter’s father. Now, ICE is moving to deport her.
Zoila Guerra Sandoval, a native of Guatemala who has lived in Maryland for nearly two decades, is the former partner of José Mynor López, one of the workers repairing the Key Bridge overnight when the Dali struck it in March 2024.
Zoila Guerra Sandoval faces the possibility of deportation.
Maryland’s highway work zones are less deadly but still too dangerous, officials say
Roadway deaths are trending down after a pandemic-era spike, but new data released Tuesday shows that aggressive speeding in work zones continues to put scores of highway workers and motorists at great risk.
I-695 road work
Maryland’s boldest transportation reforms stuck in neutral
From restructuring the Maryland Transit Administration to new winter-weather driving rules, lawmakers passed modest transport reforms as bigger plans stalled.
Snow plows idle in the State Highway Administration parking lot at Falls Road and Joppa Road in January ahead of a major snowstorm.
A Baltimore Red Line bus? MTA wants your feedback on possible pivot.
As Baltimore’s proposed Red Line light rail faces mounting obstacles, the Maryland Transit Administration will present alternative options.
A close up image of three people wearing red t-shirts that say "RED LINE" and "redlinemaryland.com"
Washington County ICE facility construction limited by federal judge
The injunction prohibits building and operating detention space inside the facility while awaiting further arguments in the federal court case.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, purchased an unoccupied, 825,620-square-foot warehouse designed for commercial goods on the outskirts of Williamsport in January.
Waymo’s Baltimore rollout stalls without state approval for driverless cars
The future of driverless cars in Maryland is up on blocks after lawmakers left Annapolis without passing key legislation authorizing their use on state roads.
March 4, 2026 - A Waymo vehicle is parked outside the Maryland State House.
Rideshare app Empower remains defiant as Maryland tries to regulate it like Uber
Empower is an app people can use to hail a car similar to Uber or Lyft, but it promises to do it for cheaper without taking money off the top.
An ad for Empower, a rideshare app Maryland’s Public Service Commission filed a complaint against in 2024, seen on the side of a BaltimoreLink bus.
Gov. Moore announces new housing and development strategy at Baltimore transit stops
The new strategy comes as the state faces a shortage of housing units and Marylanders list housing affordability as a major concern.
Gov. Wes Moore is joined by Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, Maryland Transit Administrator Holly Arnold, and Maryland Transportation Secretary Kathryn Thomson at the Rogers Avenue Metro station on Monday.
57 years: How long it would take to repave Baltimore’s roads as city promises change
Data-driven, forward-looking and more collaborative: The Department of Transportation’s updated approach to street repaving uses all the right words, but against mounting disrepair, the proof will be in the pavement.
Road damage and potholes near the intersection of Wickford and Overhill roads in Baltimore.
BWI’s CEO explains the ‘perfect storm’ that some travelers say left them in the dark
Shannetta Griffin, executive director and CEO of the Maryland Aviation Administration, explains why BWI stopped providing real-time information on wait times for TSA lines.
Travelers wind through the food court as they near security checkpoint C following an hours-long line at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Saturday morning.
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