Community issues

A local nonprofit marks the Battle of North Point this weekend with a celebration beginning Saturday, Aug. 23 at Fort Howard in Edgemere.

An Anne Arundel County man was arrested and charged with drunk driving after he struck a trooper’s car and injured another trooper early Thursday morning, Maryland State Police said.

Maryland has earmarked $500 million for horse racing infrastructure, a rare public investment into the industry. As crews work to demolish and rebuild Pimlico by the 2027 Preakness, the countdown is on.

Though Hurricane Erin is not forecast to make landfall along the East Coast, the storm is bringing hazardous conditions to the Mid-Atlantic region and Maryland beaches.

“Donald Trump, if you are not willing to walk our community, keep our name out of your mouth,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Thursday, before extending an official invitation for the president to visit Baltimore.

Catalent is laying off hundreds at its facility in Anne Arundel County and more than two dozen workers in Baltimore.

Ahead of the new school year, Maryland drivers are being asked to be careful and stop for school buses.

Howard County Police charged a mother in the November death of her 3-year-old child. At the time, the mother and child were living in Columbia.

ICE officers arrested a Honduran man, Adolfo Nimrod Hernandez-Ramos, because they suspected he was undocumented and he lived near their intended target.

Dan Cox, a Republican who lost to Wes Moore, is representing plaintiffs in two federal discrimination cases against Howard County government, the police department and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

Columbia's distinctive, some say quirky, street names have been around since its founding in 1967. But they’re gaining a new appreciation thanks to social media posts by a Columbia native who recently came home.

From the Clarksville Sunflower Festival to a Taylor Swift listening party, here are seven things to do in Howard County from Aug. 21-27.

Six Flags America in Bowie, home to Wild One and eight other coasters, was stamped a “noncore” property this year by its parent company, which is selling the 523-acre tract.

Adiante Franszoon, 80, of Suriname, etches ornate patterns into wood with his simple knife, working as if an audience were gathered to watch in Baltimore.

The state attorney general’s office announced it won’t charge the bailiff involved in a fatal shooting at Baltimore City Eastside District Courthouse this year.

Body camera footage shows Baltimore County Councilman Todd Crandell belligerent, uncooperative, apparently drunk and yelling at police.

Most of the city’s short-term rentals are downtown in the historic district, near the U.S. Naval Academy, St. John’s College and the State House.

Tide Point, formerly Under Armour’s headquarters, has sat mostly vacant since the company relocated to Baltimore Peninsula last year.

The permit pause adds new uncertainty for the transit project and will likely further delay the fulfillment of one of Gov. Wes Moore’s marquee campaign promises to build it.

Maryland State Police are investigating a multivehicle collision that killed two women and hospitalized five others Tuesday afternoon along Route 202 in Prince George’s County, officials announced.