Baltimore City

Nearly 6,000 people have died over the past six years — an unparalleled number among U.S. cities.

The city was once hailed for its response to addiction. But as fentanyl flooded the streets and officials shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights.

Help us cover the response to Baltimore’s overdose crisis by sharing your experience.

A final plan announced by Archbishop William E. Lori would reduce the number of parishes in Baltimore City and parts of Baltimore County from 61 to 23, while shrinking the number of worship sites from 59 to 30, four more than originally recommended.

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori on Wednesday announced a final church consolidation plan that would reduce the number of worship sites from 59 to 30. Many churches would get folded into merged parishes.

Canvassers poured over almost 5,000 provisional and mail-in ballots Wednesday, more than initially expected. Of those, about 2,000 were thrown out, and about 744 will be only “partially accepted,” or counted in statewide races, due largely to voters filling out ballots in the wrong council district or to unaffiliated voters erroneously participating in the May 14 closed primary, city Board of Elections representatives said Wednesday evening.

Wonder was at the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall on Wednesday afternoon as the recipient of the George Peabody Medal, the highest honor by the institute at the Johns Hopkins University.

The Charm City Circulator, a free bus service that operates four routes through the city’s core, will add a new route that crosses the Hanover Street Bridge to Cherry Hill starting June 23. The new line will include stops in Baltimore Peninsula, Riverside and Federal Hill before terminating at the Inner Harbor.

Police found dozens of 3D-printed handgun components, in a variety of colors, that could be readily assembled into a usable weapon. Some were hanging like ornaments on an artificial Christmas tree.

Honoring William Donald Schaefer by renaming the Key Bridge replacement after him would make perfect sense, says a Baltimore resident who cites Schaefer's “do it now” approach as Maryland’s governor and Baltimore’s mayor.

The students, as part of yearlong engineering class, created a snap-on accessory that reduces the noise produced by a leaf blower by nearly 40% — without reducing the power of the air being pushed out.

La Cité signed its deal during the mayoral administration of Martin O’Malley in 2006 to redevelop Poppleton, a predominantly Black neighborhood a few minutes from downtown.

Harborplace has a history, and young people are OK with writing a new one.

On Wednesday, canvassers will begin reviewing at least 6,000 additional provisional ballots and elections officials expect to use the rest of the week to tally up those votes.

The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago.

“I need to do everything that I can to try to avoid the avoidable ones, and then try to help people once they have been evicted,” Cogen said.

Jamie Costello is retiring from TV after almost four decades with WMAR.

The lineup that Ryan Fuller, the Orioles’ co-hitting coach, helps guide is one of the most powerful and dynamic in all of baseball, with a set of ascendant young stars leading the way.

Ekiben’s Fells Point location announced Monday it would temporarily close due to a plumbing issue. Baltimore freaked.

The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore on Monday said the first public swim event in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in decades will be held on June 23. Registration for “Harbor Splash” begins next week.