Community issues

Sailors have long thought of the Key Bridge as a beacon, a waypoint signaling the entry to or exit from Baltimore. It remains so, even as wreckage.

On a recent Saturday, the Maryland Transit Administration hosted its annual “Bus Roadeo,” where local drivers and maintenance crews get to show off their stuff.

Water access advocates say County Executive Steuart Pittman has slowed the momentum they helped build on expanding public water access along the Chesapeake Bay.

Baltimore Youth Kinetic Energy Collective, or BYKE for short, is a local nonprofit that teaches young people in the city to repair bikes, but they say they are much more than a repair shop.

Neither the governor nor attorney general offered details on their announcement, but it comes just before a deadline to file legal claims against the ship's owner and operator.

Black fraternities and sororities, professional social groups and other organizations have helped establish an infrastructure of support for Black candidates.

David Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore and now owns the Orioles. But for most of his life, nobody — not even Rubenstein himself — thought he was a Baltimore guy.

A fire broke out in downtown Baltimore on Sunday, impacting traffic as the Orioles prepare for their final regular-season home game.

The Key Bridge collapse killed most of a Baltimore construction crew. Their relatives share stories about the men and the pain of losing them.

In statements Saturday, spokespeople for the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland confirmed authorities have boarded the Maersk Saltoro.

The project, known as OSAM-1, was developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and was expected to service existing satellites and expand their lifespans in space.

Ocean City Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald said in a statement Friday evening that the water is safe for swimming and surfing.

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Wallace Lane’s mother’s car burst in flames shortly after she parked it after church a few months ago. She and his sister had just left the vehicle.

A rooftop pool leak lead to the evacuation of the Axel Brewers Hill Apartments, fire officials said Friday.

The funeral was just days after the suspect in the shooting, a 16-year-old classmate, was indicted by a grand jury.

Johns Hopkins University shared socioeconomic statistics and self-reported racial and ethnic identities of this year’s incoming first-year undergraduates.

Gov. Wes Moore appointed Yvonne Briley-Wilson as the head of the new state agency that will examine prison conditions.

The ship’s operators were “potentially grossly negligent and reckless,” the attorney representing Brawner Builders, Andrew Connolly, wrote in the claim filed in the U.S. District Court of Maryland.

At the same time the city’s top arts organization was struggling to make payroll, its CEO went ahead with plans for Artscape, BOPA’s premier event, without consulting anyone.