Community issues

The city’s park and neighborhood pools will open on weekdays starting Tuesday, after a handful opened on weekends last month.

The University of Maryland Medical System sued a Medicaid managed care company for denying $15 million in unpaid claims.

Sen. Cory McCray’s involvement in Ronald Lipscomb’s proposed apartment building raised alarms, ethical concerns, emails show.

After funding loss, the Baltimore Youth Film Arts program is sunsetting, but a new idea is rising.

If the federal government truly cared about child welfare, say two Baltimore professors of pediatrics, increasing funding and resources for existing agencies would be more efficient and effective than using federal agents.

Healthy real estate markets typically have about a six-month supply of homes at any given time. Howard County has just a few weeks’ worth.

Thousands of protesters filled streets and parks across Maryland on Saturday as part of the nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations, one of the largest coordinated protest actions of the year against President Donald Trump’s administration.

Baltimore County is under a Code Orange air quality alert through midnight as smoke from wildfires burning in New Jersey drifts into the region on Saturday.

Maryland elected officials expressed shock and horror following the shooting of two Democratic state lawmakers from Minnesota and their spouses.

Severe thunderstorms could dump up to 4 inches of rain per hour this evening in the nation’s capital and parts of Howard and Anne Arundel counties, the National Weather Service warned Saturday.

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A former University of Maryland Medical Center pharmacist has had his license suspended after accusations of hacking hundreds of the hospital’s computers to spy on his female colleagues.

Play began services at BWI in 2022, providing budget-friendly tickets to Iceland and connecting flights across Europe.

A 4-year-old Maryland boy and his mother were safely located just hours after an Amber Alert was issued for the missing child, authorities said Friday.

Howard County’s wildly popular reading competition, “Battle of the Books,” has been a hallmark event for fifth graders since 2008. This fall, adults will have the opportunity to compete in their own version.

The No Kings day of protests on Saturday, June 14, have been organized to reject authoritarianism, "billionaire-first politics" and the militarization of the country’s democracy, according to organizers.

Lily, a spirited daughter, sister and friend who loved going to the beach and taking long drives with her boyfriend, died Monday at age 16. The cause of death is not yet known.

Two Marylanders, Darriann Lynnelle Randle and Cedric Antoine Britten, are charged in the death of a 3-year-old girl who they initially said was kidnapped.

The monthslong search for a leader for the Baltimore Development Corp. comes to an end as Mayor Brandon Scott announces Otis Rolley’s selection for the role.

It will be busy in Baltimore this weekend with Pride events, the Charles Street Promenade, Orioles games and other festivals happening around the city. The Baltimore City Department of Transportation announced road closures for this weekend.