Community issues

Baltimore County’s agreement with MCB Real Estate to develop housing that’s attainable for working families should serve as a model for addressing the county’s unmet housing needs, County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. says.

Residents of the apartment building saw the snake, tried to contain it, and in at least one case, played with it.

A 99-year-old World War II veteran who helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp shared his memories with Loyola Blakefield students on April 25, 2024. He was critical of student protesters who have invoked the Holocaust to taunt Jewish students.

People begged the archdiocese to keep beloved churches open at a public meeting Thursday night on a proposal from the archdiocese to close a significant portion of Baltimore’s Catholic churches.

A 42-year-old Montgomery County man has been charged in a fatal hit-and-run that happened earlier this month.

New design plans were announced for the East Columbia Library Park on Thursday.

The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago, halting most maritime traffic through the city’s port.

Catholic Charities unveiled plans Thursday for a resource center at a shuttered school in the Franklintown Road neighborhood.

A group of physicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center have formed a union that would represent more than 900 residents and fellows, according to union organizers.

A University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science researcher is raising questions about species leaving the Chesapeake Bay on the hulls of ships.

Maryland’s public transit agency is seeking public input on BMORE BUS, a short-range plan to improve Baltimore’s bus network.

Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Catonsville, was indicted in February last year on charges that she conspired to destroy an energy facility. Clendaniel now faces a charge that she possessed a firearm even though she was prohibited from doing so, according to online court records.

Anne Arundel County police say surveillance video captured two teens breaking a piece of concrete from a flower bed and damaging a memorial plaque in the garden of Saint Alban’s Episcopal Church in Glen Burnie. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

The student protests that have been sweeping college campuses nationwide landed at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday.

For more than 100 years, Tubman was credited with freeing 300 people — but that figure is way off, according to a biographer.

The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago.

“It’s our port, our city, our channel, our community, and when I say our, I mean everybody,” said Col. Estee Pinchasin, who commands the Baltimore District of the Army Corps of Engineers that is overseeing the collective effort to open the port.

Because of fines, enforcement and accountability, people are definitely talking about dirt bikes in Baltimore.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will hold a listening session Thursday evening about a plan to close dozens of churches and reduce the number of Catholic parishes by two-thirds. Two more such sessions are also scheduled, and a final plan is set to be announced in June.

Amid a jurisdictional tug of war over the future home of the Washington Commanders, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Wednesday struck an assured posture on his state’s ability to keep the team in Prince George’s County.