North Baltimore neighborhoods

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.

Supporters of the new Dunkin' location in Roland Park say the model will actually reduce traffic in the area.

The Hampden Family Center has shuttered for good, but there’s a possibility a new organization could take its place.

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.

Baltimore officials and members of the city’s flagship violence-intervention program, Safe Streets, have gone more than a year without a homicide in the area where their Penn North site is located.

Amtrak is adding eight new daily trains through the North Baltimore hub on weekdays, two additional Saturday morning trains to Washington, D.C., and four new Sunday trains.

Ashish Bhandari, who has bought the rights to the Eddie’s of Mount Vernon name, hopes to reopen the grocer this summer.

The Hampden artist, known for his hubcap Christmas tree displayed outside and artwork inside his home, died this week.

Some see the move to a hotel as a chance for a new start. The city plans to clear out the park by March 6.

A high school student and a priest recalled a speeding car and seeing a child amid the wreckage of a fatal crash that killed an adult and child in Northeast Baltimore.

A child was pronounced dead at the scene and a second person who was trapped inside of a vehicle was later pronounced dead.

The new Kneads, located in the Village of Cross Keys, will be a 1,300-square-foot grab-and-go bakery and coffee shop, significantly smaller than the flagship.

Federal, state and local officials and Amtrak executives gathered Monday for a ceremonial ribbon-cutting to mark the most latest improvements to Penn Station: A new platform to serve high-speed train passengers.

The annual gathering is retiring after 30 years, according to an email shared Wednesday night by Wendy Sites, a HONfest vendor and logistics coordinator.

A blaze Saturday morning in the 4700 block of Old York Road in Baltimore City left two people dead, including a victim who had jumped from a second-floor window to escape the fire.

No arrests were immediately made in either shooting, and police said the investigations were ongoing.

After years of residents calling for safety measures on 28th Street near I-83, the city implemented a redesign that included traffic-calming measures and reduced the number of travel lanes from two to one. Residents say speeding is way down, but they still worry about overnight crashes into cars and buildings.

Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

Detectives are investigating a shooting that killed two men in North Baltimore on Sunday morning. Officers responded to the 3600 block of Greenmount Avenue for reports of a shooting around 3 a.m., a news release said.