Community issues

Baltimore County events this week include an Upperco music festival, Pikesville Armory block party and more.

The Baltimore-based US Wind project off Ocean City is Maryland’s only offshore wind farm close to construction, but federal tax breaks and courtroom battles may decide its fate.

Annapolis hardware store owner Jared Littmann opened up a commanding lead over longtime Alderwoman Rhonda Pindell Charles in the Democratic primary for Annapolis mayor.

Baltimore County Police are investigating the homicide of a 69-year-old woman who was discovered dead in a home in Lutherville.

A Baltimore man was found guilty of murdering 19-year-old bystander Cameran Holt in 2024 in Federal Hill.

Baltimore County officials are investigating the cause of a fire Monday night at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Guy, 32, of Reisterstown, is scheduled on Dec. 17 to be sentenced in Baltimore County Circuit Court to serve seven years in prison.

In 2024, more than 1 in every 3 county residents was born outside the U.S. That ranks 15th out of 841 counties included in census data.

A judge on Tuesday dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state’s case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state’s second-degree murder charges against him.

The threat against the Naval Academy last week set off panic and confusion and resulted in a midshipman being shot and wounded in a case of mistaken identity.

The 4-3 vote along party lines followed impassioned public testimony at the end of a four-hour legislative meeting Monday night.

Will Milam, who is running to unseat Montgomery County Sheriff Maxwell Uy, said the sheriff's office is broken, citing staff shortages and a toxic environment.

A White Marsh landfill has applied for a permit to dump a toxic liquid called leachate into the Bird River, a tributary of the Upper Gunpowder River.

A growing number of Democrat-led states are joining together to protect common-sense safeguards against infectious disease with vaccines. Maryland has yet to join these partnerships, but the idea is under discussion.

Johns Hopkins Medicine officials say they have ended negotiations with the insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, leaving its doctors and hospitals out of network for some 60,000 patients.

The Baltimore County Council voted 5 to 2 to approve a redistricting map that gives Maryland’s third largest county more opportunity to represent its diverse population.

A woman screamed to warn others she saw a bear, but there was no black bear attack in Baltimore County on Monday.

A lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park, has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of indecent exposure.

For the past two months, we have been putting together a team of journalists who can cover the issues that matter most to residents.

While mostly positive, the Banner-commissioned poll shows deep economic concerns for residents of Maryland’s wealthiest county.