West Baltimore neighborhoods
With new grocery store, Edmondson Village will no longer be a food desert
LA Mart will fill the space the former Giant Food left in Edmondson Village.
Family of DPW worker crushed by trash truck demands answers
Timothy Cartwell, a waste collector with the Reedbird Sanitation Yard, died after being trapped between a utility pole and a trash truck in an alley in West Baltimore.
Crash between a Jeep and a moped kills one teenager in West Baltimore
A 16-year-old boy is dead and a 17-year-old boy is injured after a crash between the moped they were riding and a Jeep in Upton, Baltimore Police confirmed Thursday morning.
Baltimore’s latest plans for the Superblock go super-bust
The Baltimore Development Corp. canceled its contract with Westside Partners after the group couldn’t show it had obtained financing for a mixed-use development.
Officials identify man killed, three officers involved in shooting
The Independent Investigations Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General said Friday that Robert Phillip Nedd Jr. of Baltimore died Wednesday in the fatal shooting involving police officers.
Three officers on leave after fatal police shooting in West Baltimore
Baltimore police officers shot and killed a man following a pursuit in the Upton neighborhood Wednesday night, the department said.
At new Baltimore community center, Eric Holder says Justice Thurgood Marshall’s work is unfinished
Eric Holder, the former U.S. Attorney General and renowned civil rights leader, delivered an inaugural speech in a lecture series created to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Letters: Ballot measure to cut City Council size will hurt Black participation
A reader says the ballot measure to cut the size of the Baltimore City Council will diminish the political participation of Black citizens.
Residents want Baltimore City Council to slow down Amtrak’s tunnel project. But can they?
The railroad company is asking Baltimore’s City Council to sign off on the rights to build under public land. But residents want them to wait.
Baltimore toddlers are about to get a lifelong jump on reading
ParentChild+ will send early learning specialists into 30 toddlers’ homes and day care locations twice a week, bearing educational gifts and guidance for caregivers.
Letters: West Baltimore residents are right. Parts of proposed bike trail are dangerous.
The proposed bike trail from Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park to Druid Hill Park would be dangerous, a reader says, but an alternate route would make sense.
How did five Baltimore school facilities mysteriously catch fire in July?
The five fires, which all broke out in the afternoons or evenings in late July, exclusively erupted at elementary/middle school facilities, according to incident reports.
Letters: Giant Food grocery curfew unfairly blames youths for crime
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.
The city wants to build a trail to link 2 West Baltimore parks. No one seems happy with the plan.
A proposal to link The Greenway Trails Network between Druid Hill and Leakin parks has left some trail advocates scratching their heads.
Young children are dying in Baltimore’s unprecedented overdose crisis
The smallest and least suspecting victims of Baltimore’s opioid epidemic are young children. Since 2020, 15 young children have died of overdose.
Poppleton investor sues for control as West Baltimore project flounders
La Cité Development was supposed to break ground on an age-restricted apartment complex for older adults this year. Instead, the developer missed a key financing deadline.
Why hasn’t the city refilled the Lake Ashburton Reservoir?
Gentrification? A football field? Residents can't see to get a straight answer on when the reservoir will hold water again.
Letters: Mayor must fix ‘deplorable’ conditions at DPW
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.
Police shooting of Baltimore teen prompts outrage among residents
Authorities have released few details about the Monday night shooting, which follows two others that unfolded under similar circumstances last year in Baltimore. All three encounters escalated quickly, starting when officers saw someone on the street and believed they could be armed.
More than 100 West Baltimore homes are still without gas after water issue, BGE says
The Department of Public Works is investigating how water got into the gas lines, prompting the company to shut off service in the area for multiple days.
