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Environmental advocates say Baltimore City could face additional penalties if it fails to meet repair deadlines and conditions.

In a Q&A, Manager Vivian Fisher reflects on the growth of the department and its Burns Memorial Reading Room.

With her Southern drawl and rich laugh, Peggy Bailey has been a fixture at Jennings Cafe since 1979. At 81, she is retiring from the cafe where she has waited tables and cheered customers for more than four decades.

One of Baltimore’s greatest statemen lived at the corner of Carrollton and Lafayette in West Baltimore across the street from Lafayette Square, long ago nicknamed the square of the churches for all the splendid churches built around it.

The design includes a large new housing development with two towers. Readers are not feeling it.

Alternative 1, a light rail tunnel option that most closely resembles an alignment that was canceled by former Gov. Larry Hogan in 2015, wins out on projected travel time and overall ridership, as well as trips from zero-car households.

Could a baby kangaroo be living undetected in the alleys of Baltimore? Did someone’s exotic pet hop away? In this strange, surprising city, anything was possible.

Reparations — and who ultimately will receive them — remains a contentious debate in this country and in Maryland.

The MTA is considering bus rapid transit as Baltimore's long-term east-west answer, but BRT critics think it's a waste of time and money.

Some of what’s new is obvious, like the two residential towers, but here are five more big changes we noticed in the plans.

Troy A. LeMaile-Stovall, CEO of TEDCO, believes that the key to Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies is through inclusive entrepreneurial innovation.

Among the featured components of the project is a large new housing development consisting of two towers in a “stepped down” design, one tower rising 32 stories and the other 25 stories. In all, the complex would deliver as many as 900 housing units, along with retail and commercial space.

Rinaldo is the second firefighter to succumb to injuries sustained in a rowhouse fire in Northwest Baltimore earlier this month.

Growing up, Elazar Zavaletta heard that trans people, like him, are an "abomination" in the eyes of God. Now a Lutheran pastor, Zavaletta has transformed his pain into solidarity with marginalized people.

In the fall of 2007, Ronnie Simpson, an accidental Texan by way of Iraq, a motorcycle salesman and apathetic college student, came to the conclusion he did not care whether he lived or died as he disappeared down a highway in San Antonio on a speeding motorcycle with the police in pursuit.

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Scores of first responders, state and city leaders and mourners gathered for the funeral of Baltimore City firefighter Rodney Pitts III, who died in the line of duty Oct. 19.

The Baltimore County Police Department is investigating the arrest Wednesday of a 16-year-old in front of the Baltimore County Public Library in Woodlawn, where last month, officers were accused of using excessive force during the arrest of a different teenager inside the library.

Audio of the emergency dispatch calls placed that afternoon include two calls for “Mayday” and a scramble for information.

A made-in-Baltimore store and all-day breakfast spot are among the new tenants coming to the Light Street Pavilion.