To thrive in 2025, Opera Baltimore is willing to try it all — even AI
While opera dates back more than 400 years ago, Opera Baltimore president Julia Cooke is squarely focused on the future — including how artificial intelligence can improve the nonprofit group’s operations.
Julia Cooke, the president and general director of Opera Baltimore, is focused on the future of opera.
Gen Z is driving a Y2K fashion comeback
From Juicy Couture sweat sets and low-rise, bedazzled jeans to chunky belts and baby tees, early 2000s fashion is all the rage again.
Beyonce, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s.
Odyssey of the crab: Inside the 1,100-mile network feeding Maryland’s frenzy
Within a generation, the Maryland crab business shifted from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the interstate.
Rin Tho loads a truck filled with crabs that is headed to the Pomes picking plant in Alabama at Pomes Seafood facility in New Orleans. Pomes started running his own trucks to Baltimore in 2017 and now delivers about 8,000 bushels of live crabs weekly to Maryland markets.
A Ravens fan wanted to sell her tickets after Harbaugh’s Trump visit. Then the phone rang.
A diehard Ravens fan almost sold her season ticketss over Coach John Harbaugh’s Trump White House visit. A call with a team executive changed her mind.
Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh.
Morgan State poised to reach elite status despite Trump cuts
In 2020, Morgan State brought in just $17.2 million in research funding and graduated 71 doctoral students.
Students walk around campus several weeks before classes begin at Morgan State University on August 5, 2025.
Justin Rose rallies late and beats J.J. Spaun in Memphis playoff. Next stop: Caves Valley.
The top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings will play in the BMW Championship starting Thursday.
Justin Rose won the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday by outlasting J.J. Spaun in a playoff.
Mike Elias explains why the Orioles haven’t called up Samuel Basallo and Dylan Beavers
Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias speaks during the event announcing that the Orioles' High-A affiliate will relocate to Frederick.
Ravens training camp highlights: Red-zone offense makes its comeback
The defense has had its fair share of wins during training. But on Sunday the offense, carried by its red-zone performance, evened out the win shares.
Quarterback Lamar Jackson has had a quiet training camp and showed inconsistency Sunday.
Cade Povich shows his ‘edge’ for Orioles, but bullpen blows game against Athletics
Povich allowed one run in six innings, but Keegan Akin lost the lead in the ninth inning of a 3-2 loss.
Cade Povich allowed four hits and one run over six innings Sunday.
Ravens place rookie CBs Bilhal Kone, Robert Longerbeam on season-ending injured reserve
The moves this weekend end both their seasons.
Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025 — Baltimore Ravens cornerback Bilhal Kone is carted off the field after suffering a knee injury in the Ravens’ first preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday night at M&T Bank Stadium.
Feel sticky this summer? That’s because it’s the muggiest on record
More than 70 million Americans have experienced the muggiest start to summer on record, with climate change increasing humidity in the Eastern U.S.
Ben Jones sips a bottle of water inside the Zeta Center for Healthy and Active Aging, one of the Baltimore City Health Department’s cooling centers, in northwest Baltimore, Md. on Monday, June 23, 2025.
Chesapeake Bay draft plan criticized for lack of pollution targets, accountability
The newest draft of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement lacks meaningful pollution reduction targets and allows states to evade legal accountability, say concerned environmental advocates and experts.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is seen from the beach at Sandy Point State Park before sunrise on February 7, 2025.
One victim dead after overnight mass shooting in Park Heights
One of the six people shot in Park Heights on Saturday night has died, Baltimore Police said Sunday morning.
7/8/22—A Baltimore Police officer’s car is parked on the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
Letter: Incarcerating young people should be a last resort
Recent scandals at Maryland’s youth detention center prove incarcerating young people should be avoided.
The Maryland Department of Juvenile Services’ Green Ridge Youth Center near Flintstone in Western Maryland.
Teaching my son to swim far, far away from the stereotype
Why a mother encouraging her son's connection to swimming is about more than safety.
Best bargain bites in Baltimore: Cheap eats you can actually count on
These Baltimore restaurants have bargain bites that are here to save the day — and your appetite — according to food social media influencer Chris Franzoni.
The chicken parmesan from Amicci's.
Trump’s controversial plan for Naval Academy demands loyalty over merit
Navy Secretary John Phelan spelled it out. The Trump administration plans to replace the Naval Academy dean, reduce the civilian faculty, increase discipline and generally screw around with the curriculum some more.
Naval Academy provost Samara L. Firebaugh addresses the Brigade of Midshipmen at the start of the new school year in August 2024.
A new era for city pools is reshaping summers in Baltimore
Unlike neighboring suburban counties, Baltimore offers residents public pools for recreation.
Richard Brooks, 55, adjusts goggles for Kairay Jones, 7, at  the Towanda Rec Center Pool on July 16, 2025.
Maryland’s Cameroonian population lives in fear under Trump
Since fleeing the gunfire and chaos of Cameroon in 2021, Ernestine and Denis have created a sense of normal life in Maryland.
Ernestine and Denis, a Cameroonian couple in Charles County, fear returning to their native country.
6 wounded, including 5-year-old girl, in Park Heights mass shooting, police say
Officers arrived on the scene and located six victims who had been shot, four males and two females.
Baltimore Police lights flicker at night.
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