From Irish traditional music to a classical music concert and the 33rd annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival, there’s plenty to do in Annapolis this coming week.

There have been nine homicides in Annapolis this year and many more shootings and reports of evening gunfire. It’s easy to overlook that some people are trying to help those hurt by it all.

Generations of historians, archaeologists and preservationists have to contend with one legend over and over again — that a network of tunnels is hidden beneath the centuries-old center of Annapolis.

The Annapolis Songwriters Festival dominates the list of things to do in Annapolis, but there's also good food, good causes, history and fair fun.

It can be hard to distinguish between real danger and overhyped warnings in the media. But yes, Maryland does experience tropical storms and hurricanes. Isabel, which hit 20 years ago this month, is hard to forget.

The shooting happened on the same block of the Bywater neighborhood where, on July 27, another fatal shooting occurred.

Leaders of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation hope the opening of the Fleugel Alumni Center proves to be a watershed moment for both financial support of the academy and services to graduates.

You can watch the Naval Academy Midshipmen try to change their fortunes in a home opener against Wagner College, catch some legendary Irish music or give blood in memory of a local hero. Here are seven great ideas for things to do in Annapolis.

This fall, the Anne Arundel County Department of Health and the city of Annapolis will select one neighborhood and one nonprofit for its first Cure Violence program. The goal is to end the tragedy of deaths like Robert Clark's.

September has always been a difficult month to identify with one season. Is it summer or fall? The beginning or the end?

“Pops in the Park” on Sunday tops the weekend, but there’s more than good music to enjoy through Sept. 6.

The day Sarah E. Carter broke the color barrier in Anne Arundel County nearly a half-century ago, she said she recognized the significance of her achievement. On Monday, Anne Arundel County finally honored it as well.

Turning your children over to someone else requires trust. You put your kids on the bus for the first day of kindergarten or watch them drive off for the start of senior year and believe they’ll come home safe and ever-so-slightly better educated. Yet, as school starts next week for most Maryland students, it’s no longer a given that parents have that trust.

You could join the cinematic chase for a great white shark, help open the Maryland Renaissance Festival or mark the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. It’s a crazy busy week in Annapolis, here are some tips on the best events through Aug. 30.

I tried out the three Annapolis pot dispensaries over the weekend, bringing home enough cannabis — in edibles, pre-rolled joints, and loose in a little glass jar like the one for my wife’s expensive moisturizer — to float me for the foreseeable future.

For the first time, community members who want to address the challenges posed by airplane noise and traffic are getting seats on the Maryland Aviation Commission, an appointed body that helps govern BWI.

The spike in sexual assaults at service academies was worst in Annapolis, where 23% of female midshipmen experienced unwanted sexual contact and sexual harassment. The causes are both unique to the Naval Academy and common to all college freshmen.

Spend the coming week in Annapolis and you could judge crab soup at the Maryland Seafood Festival, take in the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, or get your dog wet to support the SPCA at the annual Puppy Plunge. There’s something fun every day.

I’ve watched with a sense of loss this summer as Hillsmere Elementary School dissolved into a dusty pile of brick-and-concrete rubble, bent-steel framing and broken rebar.

Language in the Pentagon spending bill working its way through Congress would require the Joint Spectrum Center to finally move from the old David Taylor Research Center, clearing the way for the largest waterfront development in Annapolis history