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Maryland lawmakers are looking at a bill that would create a voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm list, which supporters call an important tool in suicide prevention. Only three other states have one.

About two decades before the sweeping educational reform known as the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, there was a different commission that laid the foundation.

It was a windy night in January, with temperatures in the mid-30s in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore City. But despite the cold, about a dozen people were bundled up and standing on a pier with ropes and magnets in hand.

On any given day, hundreds of birds gather at Baltimore County’s landfill in White Marsh, an unincorporated community just west of aptly named Bird River which drains into Gunpowder River and eventually the Chesapeake Bay.

Community members, business owners and government leaders celebrated the grand opening of Lexington Market in downtown Baltimore on Tuesday.

The legislation would ban retailers from offering plastic bags beginning Nov. 1, 2023.

Baltimore County leaders say it’s expected to take years to solve the overcrowding problem among high schools across the Northeastern region of the community.

College students attending Coppin State University may be recruited by the historically Black college in West Baltimore to teach individuals in low-income neighborhoods how to thrive in a digital world.

It’s a civic duty. It’s a triumph of democracy. And if you live in Baltimore, it can feel like a hassle. Locals say they get summons letters from the city courthouse almost every year. Is that normal? Is it like that everywhere, or just in Baltimore?

The Baltimore City Fire Department is proposing three different options to recoup its dwindling vehicle fleet of fire trucks but the scenarios as suggested to city leaders, may force the city council to make some hard decisions next budget cycle.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources workers are joined by Virginia’s state crew on boats searching the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries for blue crabs for an annual survey.

The 988 phone hotline already routes Maryland residents to suicide and prevention experts on standby instead of the 911 police response during a mental health crisis.

Why do the city’s benches proclaim, “Baltimore – The Greatest City In America”?

Carmen Roques is the next executive to lead the Maryland Department of Aging after the past 10 years as the CEO of Keswick Multi-Care, a large not-for-profit short-term rehabilitation facility and continuing care retirement community in Baltimore.

The question of where to build a new high school is reigniting a feud between the Baltimore County Council and the school system.

A century-old Steinway is silent, for now.

It’s been years in the works. Countless hours of meetings. Days worth of impassioned testimony. Late-night community listening sessions. Thousands of people using their voices to all ask for one plan, one path forward.

Baltimore County may follow other jurisdictions like Baltimore City and ban single-use plastic bags at the checkout counter.

“You can go ahead and clean it, but it might be back there the next day.”

Residents on CSX coal explosion and how it impacted the Curtis Bay neighborhood.