Howard County

COLUMN | How do you count the ways the world went right and wrong? Here’s 2025 summed up, according to me, numerically.

Here’s how to dispose of your Christmas tree in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Howard County, Anne Arundel County and across the state.

COLUMN| Is “The Baltimorons” a Christmas movie? Is it a Baltimore movie? Is it both? Columnists Leslie Gray Streeter and Rick Hutzell debate.

Here are seven things to do in Howard County from Thursday Dec. 25 through Wednesday Dec. 31.

Some of the biggest stories in Howard County: From zoning battles, the approval of the new lakefront library, school redistricting and a new inspector general.

These are the best meals I ate while covering Baltimore's dining scene, from a cheesesteak at Frank's Pizza and Pasta to The Duchess' pancit bihon hollai.

COLUMN: There’s a reason we light our nighttime hours, sing and dance around the winter solstice. Yes, it’s Christmas. Yes, it’s Hanukkah. It’s Kwanzaa, Dongzhi and Yalda, too. But we do it to ward off the dark, the bad things that lurk outside our homes and our lives and to remind of us the good.

No one hit the jackpot Wednesday, swelling the Powerball to $1.5 billion ahead of the next drawing on Saturday night.

Terri Royster left behind a lot of friends and a “memorable” legacy, her brother said. “She lived out loud.”

Howard County firefighters can use medical cannabis when they are off duty starting in January.

Howard County Police arrested Christian Kinuthia, of Windsor Mill, Friday at the scene of a nonfatal shooting in a McDonald’s parking lot in Jessup.

The home’s prime location means unique shopping and dining along Ellicott City’s historic Main Street is just minutes away. Downtown Baltimore is about 20 minutes away and Columbia is about 10.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball signed off on legislation months ago to allow for county surplus funding to go to the school system. Now he's calling that into question.

From Howard County’s first Kwanzaa market to an ugly sweater party, here are seven things to do Dec. 18-24.

A 70-year-old Howard County man was killed, and two others were injured after two cars crashed on Monday in Aberdeen, police said.

Tersiguel's, a mainstay restaurant of old Ellicott City for classic French cuisine, will serve its last meal this weekend.

There’ll always be time for Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé, The Jackson 5 and Tex Ritter. They’re everlasting. But your December playlist isn't complete until you add local Christmas music.

A Columbia man is charged with stealing two pairs of designer shoes off women’s feet outside The Mall in Columbia, according to Howard County Police.

COLUMN | President Donald Trump will attend the Army-Navy game on Saturday in Baltimore. There will be protests outside, but probably none within M&T Bank Stadium. Maybe there should be.

Atterbeary's resignation takes effect Jan. 14 and comes as there could be a shake-up in House leadership roles.