Community issues

Crews plan to make precision cuts using small charges to break up the steel structure into pieces more easily removed by equipment.

Howard County celebrated Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the third annual AAPI festival at Merriweather Park.

Callum Robinson was a standout lacrosse player at Stevenson University, a hulking figure who was hard to miss. But friends remember the former Locust Point resident, who was found fatally shot in Mexico last month in a robbery attempt, for his big hugs, big heart and zest for life.

Map details include walking paths in Patterson Park and Federal Hill Park, winding suburban roads and a swimmable Inner Harbor.

The Baltimore Banner obtained the body camera video Friday from the Maryland Natural Resources Police through a Maryland Public Information Act request.

Maryland was once one of the largest dairy-producing states in the country. But the number of dairy farms has fallen sharply over the years, especially in the past three decades. There were 297 dairy farms still in existence as of March, down from 1,400 in 1991, according to the Maryland Departments of Health and Agriculture.

Columbia’s Merriweather Post Pavilion added an unusual amenity to their backstage facilities in 2018. What was it?

The city’s white demographic is expected to play a pivotal role in electing Baltimore’s next mayor. With Sheila Dixon, who has attracted a loyal base of Black voters throughout her career, white residents can help sway a tightly contested race, according to experts.

A non-profit organization that fought to reign in Maryland's energy market won part of its fight with Gov. Wes Moore's pledge to sign a far-reaching reform bill.

A 47-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with arson and related offenses in connection to a May 6, 2024 fire at Papi Cuisine in South Baltimore.

Since 1995, an oyster reef has existed at Fort Carroll, an uninhabited island in the Patapsco River near the Key Bridge.

A crush of court orders and the lack of psychiatric hospital bed space have led to a record-high waitlist for jail transfers.

Jeremiah Brogden, a junior at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School and a running back on the Mustangs varsity football team, was shot and killed as classes let out for Labor Day weekend in 2022. He was 17.

The timing isn't certain, but there is a possibility of seeing the brilliant northern lights much further south than normal this weekend.

A Maryland teen is part of a group facing federal charges for calling in hoax threats to an airport, a school, a casino and people’s homes across the country, according to a newly unsealed indictment.

Mosby’s attorneys, Federal Public Defender James Wyda and Assistant Federal Public Defenders Maggie Grace and Sedira Banan, said, “Jail is not justice for Marilyn Mosby.”

The Maryland Emergency Medical Services System, which monitors hospitals across the state, placed St. Agnes in mini-disaster status, meaning new patients to the emergency room were rerouted to other hospitals.

The new location is set to include enough space for more than 200,000 annual library visitors, arts space and public access computers on the library side, and an open gymnasium, walking path and indoor courts — including for pickleball — on the rec center side.

As of Thursday morning, it appears the best chance for severe storms will be south of Baltimore across far southern Maryland and the lower Eastern Shore.

“Lady in the Lake,” the Apple TV+ drama based on the 2019 novel by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, will have its global premiere date of July 19. The miniseries stars Natalie Portman and Baltimore-native Moses Ingram.