Community issues

The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, a nonprofit committed to preserving the history of women, is dissolving.

Outstanding, fall-like weather will continue in Maryland for Labor Day and through the middle of the week.

Two and a half years into Gov. Wes Moore's term, the nonprofit Maryland League of Conservation Voters says his administration has fallen short on its climate and environmental justice commitments and notably backflipped on progressive policies.

Officials with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources are considering allowing e-bikes on more state bike trails, a move they say could increase accessibility to public parks.

The rally in Woodlawn was the third and final stop of the day for the union groups, which were traveling around the region to highlight three themes.

A golf center in Southeast Baltimore was damaged by a two-alarm fire on Sunday, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department.

But as summers grow hotter and longer, landlords across much of the rest of Maryland are under no obligation to cool buildings.

Hundreds of kids gathered on the outdoor basketball courts of the Robert C. Marshall Recreation Center, where they received new backpacks, competed in dance-offs and slurped snowballs that turned their lips red and purple.

Baltimore County police have identified the three people killed in a double murder-suicide inside a Catonsville home.

Baltimore Police are expanding their presence in the downtown entertainment hubs, including Fells Point, the Inner Harbor are and sports stadiums, to decrease crime ahead of football season and major events such as the Maryland Cycling Classic, officials announced Thursday.

A new deputy mayor for economic development was not announced.

Nancy Levin, a family lawyer who helped survivors of domestic violence, died Aug. 13 after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 85.

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Power was restored Friday evening at the University of Maryland, College Park, after an hourslong outage shuttered campus libraries and limited dining and health services, officials said.

Baltimore County Police said they are continuing to investigate the Catonsville double murder-suicide as they wait for a complete an examination into the manner and cause of death.

Eric Anderson had been living in Virginia. Massachusetts State Police detectives used license plate reader technology to find Anderson near Florida’s Gulf Coast. He was arrested on Monday.

More than 100 dogs and puppies were rescued from “filthy” conditions at a large-scale puppy mill in Harford County, according to the Humane World for Animals.

That billboard is still in downtown Annapolis. But wait. Is that an ad for The Baltimore Banner I see, floating majestically over City Dock? Why yes! Beauty, as I have just been reminded, is in the eye. Sometimes like a poke.

A woman who transitioned out of care at a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in 2017 has been charged in the fatal shooting last year of a clinician who worked at a residential rehabilitation program. Charges are pending in the death of a fellow patient of the program.

Claire’s has been a fixture in American malls for decades. They nearly left thousands of empty storefronts until investment firm Ames Watson, based in Columbia, agreed to buy parts of the retailer.