Community issues

The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore on Monday said the first public swim event in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in decades will be held on June 23. Registration for “Harbor Splash” begins next week.

A viral video sounded the alarm about the effect of the city's sewage overflows on the Chesapeake Bay. The city has until 2030 to prevent them from occurring.

Advocates say that two recent crashes on East Baltimore Street highlight the need for better bike infrastructure in Baltimore’s Southeast neighborhoods.

Almost two months after leaving port, the crew of the Dali remain onboard, back where they started, as their longest voyage continues.

“Today, the court will provide time and space for listening,” U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michelle M. Harner said on Monday at the beginning of a hearing in the case.

After what’s felt like an endless slog of muggy days and rainy weekends, the Baltimore region can expect warmer, sunnier days ahead.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semiautomatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons.

The Dali on Monday made its way to a nearby marine terminal nearly eight weeks after it struck the Key Bridge.

Rethinking approaches to health care and adopting a new nursing initiative would help alleviate long emergency care wait times that put Marylanders at risk, leaders of health care and nursing programs at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State universities say.

Organizers of New Village Academy planned to open a charter high school this fall, but they have encountered difficulty finalizing a lease at Westfield Annapolis mall.

Baltimore longshoremen held a celebratory picnic at a park in Essex on Sunday to mark progress in reopening the Port of Baltimore. The refloating and move of the Dali, the container ship that crashed into the Key Bridge on March 26, will allow the port to get back to full strength.

Mike Flanagan, the filmmaker known for his horror works such as “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “Midnight Mass” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is returning to his home.

U.S. District Judge Lydia K. Griggsby is scheduled on Thursday to sentence Mosby, 44, a Democrat who serve two terms as the city's top prosecutor from 2015-2023, on two counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement on a loan application. She maintains her innocence.

Communities must stand against the language that criminalizes and dehumanizes immigrants, says the managing attorney of an organization supporting immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in Baltimore.

Maryland must do more to address the educational, health and other urgent needs of migrant children, say a Johns Hopkins primary care pediatrician and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

When the mayor of Annapolis plans a $10 million, glass-walled maritime welcome center at City Dock — right on top of an $88 million public works project to save downtown by lifting part of it above climate-driven flooding — Historic Annapolis pays attention. The question is, is anyone listening?

No matter where you noticed the spotted lanternfly nymphs, they’re a sign of what’s to come. Experts said they expect a swarm of the bugs — which take on a dramatic red coloring when they’re grown — just like last year in Maryland.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is set to finalize its plan to close churches next month. That includes some where Hispanic congregations worship.

Six weeks after the ship hit and collapsed Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, officials aim to refloat it during high tide.

Waves of rain moved through Baltimore early Saturday, and forecasters predicted clouds will continue throughout Preakness Day.