The Baltimore County Council on Monday could decide whether to ask voters to consider a ballot measure to expand from seven to nine members. Some say the council, which is now composed of seven men and only one person of color, is not representative of the increasingly diverse county.

The Maryland Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that Baltimore County Police Cpl. Royce Ruby could not be held liable for firing a shot that wounded 5-year-old Kodi Gaines after a long standoff with police in the boy’s home in 2016. Police fatally shot his mother, who had brandished a gun.

The seizure of dozens of dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, parakeets and fish from an Essex home has led to crowded conditions in Baltimore County's only open-admission shelter, officials say.

In Baltimore County, the law allows anyone to nominate a property to be landmarked and protected, regardless of ownership.

Baltimore County Executive says he stands ready to compromise on a better bill.

Matthew August Jeffers has a rare form of dwarfism. It has not stopped him from opening big on Broadway in one of the hottest shows of the season, Enemy of the People.

A hamlet in Baltimore County is so quiet it is actually called Boring. And neighbors are campaigning to keep it that way, fighting a zoning change that would turn their firehouse and bingo hall into a manufacturing facility.

The Baltimore County Council has passed a measure that would make it harder for developers to build new housing in communities with crowded schools. But county school officials want to have more input, and the county executive worries it may have a negative impact on the county’s moral and legal obligations to address attainable housing.

Baltimore County and state officials are using a helicopter fly swatter to spray bacteria over a 1,200-acre section of the Back River. The goal is to kill millions of midge larvae so they do not grow up to annoy residents and destroy businesses in the marinas and waterfront homes in and around Essex.

The Baltimore County Council next week is poised to sell Perry Hall, as county staff acknowledges it can’t afford to keep the estate in the manner to which it was long accustomed.

The Baltimore County Council on Monday passed a contentious measure designed to reduce overcrowding in schools by adding an approval process for developers who want to build new housing.

Overcrowded schools can mean students are sometimes eating lunch closer to breakfast time, having their gym class in homeroom, or walking long distances to outside trailers. Sometimes, the school needs to hold an assembly two or three times so everyone can attend.

The Baltimore County Council extended their confirmation authority to members of the county’s powerful planning board and voted to place term limits on commission members, allowing them to serve no more than three terms and making that retroactive.

Council members opted to cut $600,000 from a $1.2 million request to renovate the historic Towson courthouse, where the County Council meets.

Baltimore longshoremen held a celebratory picnic at a park in Essex on Sunday to mark progress in reopening the Port of Baltimore. The refloating and move of the Dali, the container ship that crashed into the Key Bridge on March 26, will allow the port to get back to full strength.

Wealthy Maryland congressman has said he will back Democrat Angela Alsobrooks’ U.S. Senate bid in the fall, but has not signaled whether he’ll become a major financial supporter of her campaign.

The need for more fields in the county has become increasingly pressing since the 1980s.

Angela Alsobrooks won the Democratic primary for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday night and will face off against Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan in the general election.

Compared with our neighboring states, Maryland has been slow to adapt to the growing demand for safe cycling lanes, particularly over bridges.

The Baltimore City Council will vote this month on Bill 31-24, which would amend the county’s ordinance to tighten rules designed to ease or prevent overcrowded school districts.