Community issues

Concerns about Joseph Gillespie went unchecked many years ago, a city employee said.

A Day One order from Trump halts new leases and permits for offshore wind development, but one industry analyst said the step signals the president could take even more aggressive steps to roll back recent progress.

When Charles Miller was just 11 years old, his mother was killed. Now, 42 years later, he is still searching for answers about what happened.

Meghan Merkert, a Timonium mother of two who was expecting her third daughter, died suddenly Dec. 19. She was 36.

Woolly mammoth bones on display at the Natural History Society of Maryland’s museum are leaving soon.

The backlog of residents asking the city and its transportation department to do something to curtail dangerous speeding and aggressive driving has grown — by a lot — since right before the pandemic, when such behaviors starting getting worse across the country.

With frigid temperatures expected to last the next few days, here is a list of the schools that announced delayed openings for Wednesday morning.

Bendann, 40, of Baltimore, was found guilty in 2024 in U.S. District Court in Baltimore of sexual exploitation of a child, possession of child pornography and cyberstalking.

Baltimore County firefighters are working to put out hot spots and monitoring for any flare-ups at a recycling facility that caught fire over the weekend.

Baltimore County Police arrested a suspect after a shooting sent a teenager to the hospital on Monday afternoon.

Marginalized groups, including immigrants, non-white people and members of the LGBTQIA+ population expressed displeasure with Donald Trump’s inauguration speech and subsequent issuing of a slew of executive orders.

Maryland’s state government faces a potentially large bill to compensate people who were abused as children in the juvenile justice system — with no plan to pay for it.

Dangerous winds returned to Southern California on Tuesday as new wildfires broke out and a pair of major Los Angeles-area blazes burned for a third week.

What schools are either opening late or closed on Tuesday, Jan. 21.

Baltimore City is under a code blue alert through Thursday because of freezing temperatures.

Maryland makes homeowner associations collect funds for maintenance. Baltimore County’s councilmen say it’s too much.

Demonstrations after Donald Trump’s first inauguration were the largest in U.S. history. This time, the resistance has been subdued.

Baltimore County firefighters say they continue efforts to extinguish a fire at a recycling plant in Dundalk.

Baltimore Police have advised people to drive carefully due to icy and snowy roads Sunday night. Temperatures are expected to drop and usher in 1 to 3 inches of snow Sunday and maybe more on Tuesday.