Severe thunderstorms swept across Maryland on Saturday, toppling trees and power lines, damaging homes and businesses, and knocking out electricity to thousands as tornadoes, flash flooding and dangerous winds threatened much of the state.

Maryland skies should look a little less hazy by Saturday evening as thunderstorms move into the region.

A 1-year-old boy was found dead in a car in Northwest Baltimore Thursday, police said.

A tractor trailer crashed into several homes and a light pole in Dundalk on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department.

Five people in Carroll County contracted measles after visiting a high-risk area outside the state, Maryland Department of Health officials said Wednesday in a news release.

There have been 32 cases of cyclosporiasis in the state so far this year, including 28 since May, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

Baltimore County fire crews responded after a bus crashed into a building Wednesday in Pikesville, leaving more than 30 people injured.

Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said officers responded around 7:20 p.m. Tuesday to a house in the 6100 block of Talles Road. Officers found a 9-year-old and a 15-year-old, who appeared to be brother and sister, dead from gunshot wounds.

Repairs continue at Cromwell Light Rail Station days after storm damage indefinitely paused services.

From Baltimore briefly serving as the nation’s de facto capital for two months to its role in building some of the Continental Navy’s ships, here are a few things you might not have known about Baltimore’s — and Marylanders — contributions to the fight for independence.

As Maryland braces for extreme heat over Independence Day weekend, here are tips to keep your energy bill from rising.

The emergency response shut down Pulaski Highway in both directions, causing traffic delays.

The tall ships that brought life to Baltimore’s waterfront are heading to New York for Independence Day.

A rural hospital in Cecil County plans to stop delivering babies. The closure of its Family Birth Center poses a challenge to pregnant residents and shows the limits of the state’s hospital regulatory system.

A 72-year-old woman with dementia who had been missing from the Charles Village area in Baltimore since June 17 was found dead Monday, officials said.

The failure of an air-conditioning unit at the Baltimore City Youth Detention Center has left a small number of young defendants sleeping in a gymnasium that lacks full cooling.

Black Acres Roastery announced Tuesday that it was leaving Lexington Market, citing lower-than-expected performance, its CEO shared in an Instagram post.

Police on Tuesday shut down a ramp to U.S. Route 50 as they negotiated with a man sitting atop a fence on an overpass. The incident briefly affected nearby voters.

The department’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether school districts in Frederick, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties violated Title IX with its gender-identity policies.

Two Johns Hopkins University groups will get money from a benefit festival that Grammy Award-winning pop singer Olivia Rodrigo is hosting in California in August.