Community issues

Kids submit an original Lego build to a railroad-themed competition at the B&O Railroad Museum.

Boat ramps are the gateway to the Chesapeake Bay for hundreds of thousands of Marylanders. So when the public ramp shuts down people are going to notice.

A teen suffered a “catastrophic” injury and officials seized more than 1,300 fireworks from an illegal show over the July 4 weekend, officials said.

The seven-member Baltimore County Council unanimously voted down the additional $2 million loan for Red Maple Place in Towson.

About 160 people will lose their jobs at Microsoft’s ZeniMax Media in Rockville as part of the company’s recent cuts.

A coalition of doctors’ groups and public health organizations sued the U.S. government over the decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for most children and pregnant women.

After two cancellations, Baltimore leaders starting this week will launch a series of public hearings on the city’s drug overdose crisis, which has been the worst in the country.

Multiday passes hit the market July 7 and single-day tickets go on sale Aug. 4.

Parts of Maryland are under a flood watch Monday as remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal move across the region.

The idea to rename the Baltimore Waterfront Promenade was inspired by Baltimore missing out on USA Today’s list of top riverwalks multiple times for years.

Baltimore’s Department of Public Works is changing the trash pickup time for city residents in an effort to protect employees from the summer heat. 

The Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church has been searching for a financial lifeline to maintain its historic building.

Craig Smith, a commercial real estate developer who also used to run a family trucking business, died June 7 of lung cancer. He was 82.

Fort Garrison Fort was built in 1692 to house rangers patrolling colonial settlements, but it is rarely open for people to learn its history.

Patuxent Research Refuge’s North Tract in Laurel has cut visiting hours. Could the Trump administration could close it entirely?

The body of a 20-year-old New York man who went missing after he went swimming with friends in a Maryland reservoir was recovered on Saturday afternoon.

Rescuers scoured flooded riverbanks littered with mangled trees Saturday and turned over rocks in the search for more than two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others missing after a wall of water blasted down a river in the Texas Hill Country. The storm killed at least 32 people, including 14 children.

On July 1, Havre de Grace shut down the historic State Theater, saying the 300-seat venue had continued to hold events without a final permit.

BermudAir recently announced that it will have a nonstop flight going from Baltimore to Anguilla, a small British territory in the Eastern Caribbean known for its pristine white-sand beaches and turquoise waters.

Residents of Baltimore's Locust Point neighborhood are accustomed to the sound of ship horns and train whistles, even the Domino Sugar plant. But some say the noise and lights from two massive Navy ships that recently docked near their homes has been unbearable. They want to know what officials are going to do about it?