Montgomery County

Homicides in Montgomery County rose 20% in 2025, but were down from a 10-year high in 2021.

The funding would come out of the county’s reserves for the fiscal year 2026 budget, which ends in July.

“Golden,” the “KPop Demon Hunters” smash featuring vocals by Maryland native Rei Ami, won best original song at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. Is an Oscar next?

Caroline Green and Michael Parsons finished fourth at the national championship

Jesica Evelin Argueta of Silver Spring turned herself in Tuesday on an arrest warrant that charged her with manslaughter by vehicle due to gross negligence and related traffic offenses.

Dozens of clinicians and their patients are scrambling after the abrupt closure last week of The Chesapeake Center, a nationally known Bethesda-based practice specializing in ADHD with multiple locations in the region and Florida.

Rescue workers performed life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been released.

“Real Housewives of Potomac” alum Candiace Dillard Bassett and Donna Kelce (as in Taylor Swift’s soon-to-be mother-in-law) duked it out in the first few episodes of Season 4 of NBC’s “The Traitors.”

Kayla DiCello will compete for the first time since the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials.

Brody Richardson, 19, had consumed alcohol and used marijuana before a July 21 crash that killed Germantown resident Mary Elizabeth Moody, 71, authorities said.

A community organizer in Silver Spring said she couldn’t stop thinking Thursday about the woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday. “I had to turn my anguish into action,” she told The Banner.

Montgomery County Public Schools recently finished its first semester since the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a group of parents who sought the right to opt-out of lessons with LGBTQIA+ themes.

Laura Silverman, a North Bethesda resident, turned her sobriety journey into an international movement for nonalcoholic beverages. Here’s what you can learn from her this Dry January.

You talked a big game on Dec. 31 about the ways you were going to change your life this year. Executing those intentions is another thing. These seven activities happening this week in Montgomery County offer the opportunity to do good on your New Year’s resolutions.

The chain co-founded by Thelma Beall now has more than 100 locations, and is still family-run.

The rectangular-shaped-and-cut pizza, known as Maryland-style pizza, originated at Ledo Pizza in 1955 and has continued to evolve at these Montgomery County eateries.

Officials say public records requests have not only increased in number but in complexity.

Downtown Takoma Park is already equipped with an assortment of traffic-calming measures, including flashing stop signs, school zone speed limits and crossing guards. Now, it’s also embracing artificial intelligence-powered stop sign cameras.

Leaders said the county had completed or made substantial progress on 63 of the 84 goals outlined in the plan, as of June 30.

Matt Mervis, a Potomac native and Georgetown Prep graduate, signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals.