Wes Moore

When Maryland lawmakers return to Annapolis to work on the next state budget, they’ll have to close a budget hole of more than $1 billion — a significantly tougher challenge than they’d anticipated.

Gov. Wes Moore’s high-profile attempt to push Maryland into the national fray of redistricting got off to a low-profile start on Tuesday.

Party leaders, rank and file want an opportunity to fight back against President Donald Trump

Marylanders who have been waiting for food assistance amid the government shutdown and legal fights will start to see state-funded benefits in their accounts starting Tuesday.

The State of Maryland and Prince George’s County are suing President Donald Trump for interfering in the long-planned relocation of the FBI to Greenbelt.

After a month of being asked, Gov. Wes Moore’s office provided crime statistics for what state police got up to in September.

A press conference is scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Prince George’s County. It will include the attorney general, the governor, the county executive and state and federal lawmakers.

After nearly 40 years of pushing for progressive change on environmental and educational policy, Maryland Energy Administration leader Paul Pinsky is retiring from public service.

“My commitment has been clear from day one — we will explore every avenue possible to make sure Maryland has fair and representative maps,” Moore said in a statement Tuesday.

More than 680,000 Marylanders — nearly 40% of them children — receive SNAP benefits each month to help keep food on the table. The average benefit is $180.

Maryland state lawmakers pressed Gov. Wes Moore and his administration to keep food benefits intact during the federal government shutdown — even if that means tapping the state’s Rainy Day Fund.

Food banks and pantries say they already are seeing unprecedented demand for help. They expect demand to increase with the loss of federal food aid.

Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday that he was confident in Maryland Human Services Secretary Rafael López, despite the many challenges the embattled state agency has faced.

Restaurants, museums and theaters in Maryland are offering freebies or reduced-price deals to federal workers during the government shutdown.

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson wrote of redistricting: “The legal risks are too high, the timeline for action is too dangerous, the downside risk to Democrats is catastrophic, and the certainty of our existing map would be undermined.”

Maryland has more than $2 billion in a Rainy Day Fund that’s been tapped before for emergencies like the Key Bridge collapse and the coronavirus pandemic.

On Oct. 22, Human Services Secretary Rafael López issued a policy directing social services providers to “immediately stop facilitating stays in unlicensed settings.”

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is asking the federal government to cover SNAP benefits with money already set aside by Congress.

With federal food assistance set to dry up at the end of the month, Maryland lawmakers are convening a hearing to see what, if anything, they can do to help.

Human Services Secretary Rafael Lopez issued the new directive last Wednesday, exactly one month after a 16-year-old girl living in an East Baltimore hotel was found dead.