Community issues

There are plans to create a temporary alternate channel near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge that will allow commercial vessels to access the port.

The wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is becoming a public spectacle. Here's where to view the recovery effort from a distance.

Assisting businesses, opening channels remain priority, officials said.

Gov. Wes Moore, Mayor Brandon Scott and U.S. officials discussed the recovery effort on national TV news.

Co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che made two jokes about the disaster during the show's Weekend Update segment.

Parks & People celebrated its 40th anniversary with its annual Easter egg hunt.

Less than 20 seconds was all it took for it to collapse into the Patapsco River on Tuesday.

The mother of a Baltimore man called police early Thursday to report that men had broken into her home and demanded money for her son, whom they claimed to be holding. They fled without the money, and hours later the man was found dead in a wooded area of Annapolis.

Though the Key Bridge in Baltimore had been in satisfactory condition before the shipping collision, thousands of other bridges stand in poor shape across the U.S. due to aging piers, beams and key structural components.

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From a proposal to the American dream, Baltimoreans remember the bridge as more than a roadway.

The loss of workers in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse serves as a reminder of the essential role immigrant workers play in our community and of our obligation to protect them, say the leaders of immigrant rights groups United We Dream and CASA.

“We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor,” Scott told The Banner. “They really want to say the N-word.”

Sha-Kim Akil Webley, 29, of Windsor Mill, was shot Jan. 9 at a BP gas station near Slade Avenue and Reisterstown Road in Pikesville.

More than a thousand people — including union laborer Terry Turbin — gathered Friday to raise money for port workers who will lose work because of the Key Bridge collapse.

A baker in Dundalk was one of the last people to cross the Key Bridge, making it off about a minute before it collapsed.

Since the Francis Scott Bridge’s collapse early Tuesday, community members have been reaching out and providing support to families of the six Latino construction workers who perished in the disaster.

The six missing workers were all part of Baltimore’s flourishing Latino community, immigrant advocates say.

Expansion of the Seagirt Marine Terminal in 2013 allowed bigger ships like the Dali to load up at the Port of Baltimore, ships that vastly outflank the vessels operating when the Key Bridge was built in the 1970s.

Rescue and recovery efforts have turned to a salvage operation that Maryland Department of Transportation estimated Thursday would cost at least $60 million.