Lillian Reed

The Columbia Costco gas station will close for construction this summer, leaving Howard County drivers to seek discounted fuel elsewhere.

Former state Del. Vanessa Atterbeary has accrued more endorsements and donations than her competitors in the Howard County executive race, but it’s made her a mutual target.

The Howard County Council on Monday unanimously passed a temporary moratorium on the development of new data centers and created a task force to study their impacts.

The discord in the Columbia Association keeps escalating. Infighting is the order of the day, and ethics complaints are the new weapon of choice. Is it a generational shift, or a reflection of today’s political polarization?

Whistleblowers and tipsters have submitted 61 complaints to Howard County’s new Inspector General Kelly Madigan, but the watchdog said she faces hurdles to accessing the records she needs to investigate.

A federal judge seems prepared to strike down Howard County’s emergency legislation banning private detention centers after a challenge by the developer converting an old office building for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

State Del. Chao Wu said he has no regrets about participating in democracy after two Republican colleagues, Del. Mark Fisher and Del. Brian Chisholm, refused to apologize for a racist video they posted about him.

Howard County has named Major Terrence Benn, a former U.S. Marine with nearly 20 years of law enforcement experience, as acting police chief.

The Howard County Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint alleging a conflict of interest involving Steve Quisenberry and Kelly Madigan in the search for the county’s first inspector general.

More than a year after Howard County officials pledged to increase police presence at The Mall in Columbia, law enforcement is preparing to move in — along with more than a half dozen new businesses.

A four-vehicle crash involving a Maryland Transit Administration bus early Sunday in Anne Arundel County left a 33-year-old woman dead and two injured.

James Rouse founded Columbia with a vision of inclusivity. But as residents prepare to cast ballots for their village councils and Columbia Association board members, some worry varying rules are producing low turnout and elections lack transparency.

A Columbia mother and her boyfriend gave different answers to police about what caused the bruises on her daughter’s face or how the 3-year-old came to ingest a bottle of melatonin.

Federal authorities are weighing in on a lawsuit between Howard County and Genesis GSA Strategic One LLC, a case with implications for the future location of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Baltimore field office.

The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club annually hosts the world’s largest one-day bottle show, a lucrative antique market that draws serious collectors and even more serious money to the Howard County Fairgrounds each spring.

Howard County’s $432.6 million capital budget proposal represents an approximately 16% increase from last year.

Howard County’s Chief of Police Gregory Der is planning to retire from the department on June 1 in the wake of two fatal police-involved incidents.

A Maola Local Dairies milk processing plant in North Laurel is laying off 72 workers and closing by Dec. 31, meaning residents no longer have to deal with a stench coming from the plant since at least the ’90s.

Kathleen Amesbury, 28, and Dale Brown Jr., 25, of Hanover, Pennsylvania, are facing charges in Howard County following a yearlong investigation into the 2025 death of her 3-year-old child.

Two years after the Dali cargo ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, eight crew members remain grounded in Baltimore, among the longest stretches of time for any seafarers in recent memory.