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An underground fire shut down streets in downtown Baltimore and caused power and internet outages Sunday.

A reader says the ballot measure to cut the size of the Baltimore City Council will diminish the political participation of Black citizens.

Grocery stores targeting youths with curfews sends the harmful and inaccurate message that young people are primarily responsible for crime and shoplifting, says Hannah Stommel, a Zubrow fellow at the Juvenile Law Center.

A reader says the mayor must fix the “deplorable, inhumane” working conditions at the Department of Public Works sanitation yards after a worker died while on his route.

Baltimore’s Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved the lease for OneDo Coffee Roasters to take up a 1,156-square-foot space, with an expected opening next spring.

Some of Eric Costello’s errors were self-inflicted. One voter said his endorsement of Sheila Dixon for mayor “betrayed the public trust.”

A preservationist developer wanted to modernize an old 25-bedroom hotel in Mount Vernon. Now, the property sits with a listing price at $1.6 million.

Baltimore Catholics, reeling from the archdiocese's proposal to close 40 churches, spent Monday mourning and preparing to battle to keep their beloved parishes open.

Gaming isn’t just about Monopoly and Candy Land anymore — a new generation of board games, collectible card games and tabletop role-playing games has exploded in popularity.

Traveling through downtown this coming week? Make sure you plan ahead because traffic is expected to be much heavier due to the CIAA tournament at CFG Bank Arena.

The midtown staple had been the neighborhood’s only grocer for years, garnering a special reputations in the community as an intimate family-operated business before it closed abruptly last June.

Police arrested Teneshia Pollock, 35, of Baltimore, after she allegedly shot at a female motorist, grazing her in the head, and then at an off-duty police officer in downtown Baltimore on Saturday afternoon.

Family members of Theodore McKeldin, remembered as the “father of the Inner Harbor,” want to preserve his waterfront memorial amid Baltimore-based MCB Real Estate's plans to overhaul Harborplace.

As 2023 winds down, The Banner’s photo staff culled through the thousands of pictures we filed this year to highlight some of the most memorable frames, stories and projects from across Baltimore and the surrounding region.

No, the city of Baltimore is not rushing the redevelopment of Harborplace. That’s what the Baltimore Planning Commission decided Thursday night after an hours-long hearing.

Alternative 1, a light rail tunnel option that most closely resembles an alignment that was canceled by former Gov. Larry Hogan in 2015, wins out on projected travel time and overall ridership, as well as trips from zero-car households.

Growing up, Elazar Zavaletta heard that trans people, like him, are an "abomination" in the eyes of God. Now a Lutheran pastor, Zavaletta has transformed his pain into solidarity with marginalized people.

“We really need to be thinking about this, as one, connected, amazing district that is not car-centric with a highway running through it,” P. David Bramble said Thursday.

We commissioned artistic renderings of readers’ most popular design requests.

When Maryland’s acting state parks Superintendent Angela Crenshaw visits parks, she goes over a few rules with staff members. Be nice. Be safe. Keep body to self.