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Waitlist spots may become available for the Inner Harbor public swim set for late June — but they are not guaranteed.

The island community will be able to use the money to shore up its petroleum storage and make other necessary improvements to protect from flooding.

Cylburn Arboretum’s most-photographed tree, a dawn redwood, was destroyed by a lightning strike this week.

Ultramarathon swimmer and Maryland native Katie Pumphrey is looking to make history with what she calls “a love letter to Baltimore.”

By the end of 2024, two giant pandas will be back at the National Zoo in Washington.

While the Johns Hopkins Health System has ceased dealings with a South Baltimore medical waste incinerator that has been sued and hit with fines, MedStar Health plans to continue using the facility.

An attorney for the Sinclair chairman and Baltimore Sun owner objected to 64 questions in a recent deposition as part of a lawsuit Smith is funding against city schools.

The pilot, which is just under 2 years old, includes 1,164 households participating in the free compost collection program through Key City Compost. The total amount of diverted waste is 574,670 pounds as of the end of April.

You may be wishing Maryland had never abandoned the network of ferries that once glided along the Chesapeake Bay. But if ferry service is restored someday, it will be about tourism, not easing traffic jams.

Many residents are concerned that a recent comprehensive rezoning may have cleared the way for a development anchored by a hotel at the site of the Liberty Marina in Anne Arundel County.

Overcrowded schools can mean students are sometimes eating lunch closer to breakfast time, having their gym class in homeroom, or walking long distances to outside trailers. Sometimes, the school needs to hold an assembly two or three times so everyone can attend.

St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church once anchored an East Baltimore neighborhood that was home to many German Catholics, but it has languished since the parish was dissolved in the 1980s. A lightning strike sparked a fire in the towering steeple in 2020, and now it's up for sale with a $1 million asking price.

Members of the Jarrettsville and Historic Elkridge Young Marines and Timonium Girl Scouts placed 3,500 flags at Dulaney Valley Memorial Grounds in Timonium.

Shani Mott, a scholar of Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins University, died in March. A celebration to commemorate her life will be held Sunday.

Airman Makai Cummings will be honored Monday at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens’ 57th annual Memorial Day Ceremony, honoring the lives of fallen service members with Maryland ties.

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This weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. It also means pools across Baltimore will be reopening soon for those looking to cool off and splash around.

Salvage work and restoration of the main shipping channel near the site where the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed should be complete by the second week of June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday.

A preservationist developer wanted to modernize an old 25-bedroom hotel in Mount Vernon. Now, the property sits with a listing price at $1.6 million.