Community issues

Updates to Howard County building codes mean residents will have lower bills, better energy efficiency and more comfort during hot weather, says Monica O’Connor, a member of HoCo Climate Action.

In the early 1980s, Donna De Garcia drove through the mountainside of Taxco, Mexico, searching for her vision of gold — silver.

Flooded basements, trash, pests — residents of Midtown-Edmondson say that construction for Amtrak’s Frederick Douglass Tunnel is bringing unwanted additions to the neighborhood.

Standing up to injustice requires courage, and every step toward despotism by President Donald Trump is another call to show it.

Uber driver Tanner Donahoo didn’t know he was driving famous rapper Jeezy until halfway through their 10-hour ride to save his Baltimore concert at the Lyric.

Williamsport High School in Washington County will start the 2025-26 academic year virtually after asbestos was found in parts of its building.

A Harford County judge on Monday sentenced the man who raped and murdered Rachel Morin on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A mass power outage in Central Maryland was avoided on Monday, following a transmission failure at a local Baltimore Gas and Electric Company substation.

President Donald Trump included Baltimore on a short list of Democratic-led cities he cast as crime-ridden, on the same day he deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.

The Howard Community College union reached a tentative agreement on its first contract with administration, resulting in the highest salary increase in seven years.

Residents in Baltimore’s Park Heights community are waiting for answers after a mass shooting Saturday night left one person dead and five others injured. 

Workers at the library systems celebrated the new contracts.

A new city grant will help the Baltimore Streetcar Museum achieve its future vision that includes refurbishing a nearby former railroad building into a new education space.

A fire ripped through a house in Charles County, Maryland, on Sunday, killing four children and two adults, authorities said.

Within a generation, the Maryland crab business shifted from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the interstate.

A diehard Ravens fan almost sold her season ticketss over Coach John Harbaugh’s Trump White House visit. A call with a team executive changed her mind.

The top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings will play in the BMW Championship starting Thursday.

The newest draft of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement lacks meaningful pollution reduction targets and allows states to evade legal accountability, say concerned environmental advocates and experts.

One of the six people shot in Park Heights on Saturday night has died, Baltimore Police said Sunday morning.

Unlike neighboring suburban counties, Baltimore offers residents public pools for recreation.