Anne Arundel County

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman on Wednesday proposed a $2.31 billion budget for fiscal year 2025 that increases spending, boosts the starting pay of police officers and provides funds to staff three new schools.

Officers responded to Marley Middle School in Glen Burnie on Tuesday after school officials found an unloaded 9 mm handgun in a student’s backpack, according to Anne Arundel County Police.

Christian Siriano, an Annapolis native, will serve as grand marshal and keynote speaker June 1 for the annual Annapolis Pride Parade & Festival, which is a major coup as the event enters its fourth year.

I explored cozy coffeehouses in Anne Arundel County to find hidden gems, enjoying unique drinks and bites at each location.

Light rail service will not operate at five stations in Anne Arundel County for most of May as the Maryland Transit Administration is set to begin track repairs next week.

Anne Arundel County police say surveillance video captured two teens breaking a piece of concrete from a flower bed and damaging a memorial plaque in the garden of Saint Alban’s Episcopal Church in Glen Burnie. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

The week ending Thursday, May 2 is a great one to wander around some boats in Annapolis, take in a ballet classic or dig deeply into books with their authors.

I listened with interest last week to a panel discussion of the University of Maryland’s groundbreaking study on the state of journalism in Maryland. No surprise, what it found ain’t great. But there is reason to hope.

Black Marylanders will be featured in the documentary “Finding Us,” which will be shown on PBS. They are part of the newly formed Descendants of Jesuit Enslavement Historical and Genealogical Society.

Baltimore County poet Jennifer Sutherland's “Bullet Points” lyrically recounts a tragic fatal shooting and its aftermath.

A new Anne Arundel County law will expand the Human Relations Commission’s powers from addressing discrimination complaints in housing to include noncounty employment and public accommodations.

A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago.

Trucks have long cut through neighborhoods around the Port of Baltimore, but residents say the problem is getting worse in the wake of the Key Bridge’s collapse.

Former Capitol Hill police officer Harry Dunn and state Sen. Sarah Elfreth were among the candidates who participated in a forum in Annapolis. The candidates, who are vying to success outgoing U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes, face off in the May 14 primary election.

April is finally warming, and that means there are opportunities to get out on the water in Annapolis. There’s also free music, a festival for female voices, a maritime collective market day and student art to enjoy through April 24.

Public school students in the Anne Arundel and Howard County school districts go to the polls soon to elect a student school board member, who will serve one year.

I’ve been commuting from Annapolis to Baltimore a couple of days each week for a few months now. We’ve got traffic in Annapolis, and sometimes it’s maddening. There was that one time a sailboat mast got caught in a powerline on Forest Drive. But I have to ask you Baltimore Beltway commuters a question: Is it always this bad?

The district includes all of Howard County, the central and northern parts of Anne Arundel County and a small portion of Carroll County.

St. John’s College in Annapolis will look at its most complicated graduate as part of a wider reckoning with its history of racism.

Scott Miller of Anne Arundel is facing sentencing Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington for his role in the insurrection. He pleaded guilty in January to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon.