Community issues

How a Southwest Baltimore couple are making their restaurant feel like home

What are ghost guns and why all the fuss about them? Here’s an explanation of the ongoing issue.

Baltimore’s own Mr. Trash Wheel is featured in a new book in Dr. Seuss' Lorax series.

Ksenia Karelina, a 33-year-old aesthetician and dancer, faces up to 20 years in a Russian prison.

At the start of the year, the Howard County Council failed to pass a rent stabilization bill, leaving tenants feeling the burden of rent increases.

The Baltimore County Council unanimously approved a diversity, equity and inclusion study.

The early start times now mandated for Baltimore public school students can be a factor in poor performance and lead to detrimental health outcomes, say two Loyola college students who experienced early start times and long trips to school as Baltimore public school students.

Nineteen months after a fire destroyed Sailor Oyster Bar in Annapolis, it’s a safe bet that a lot of old friends and well-wishers will return to the little bar that burned when it reopens for the public on Tuesday.

A Banner analysis of newly obtained police data shows ghost guns make up 20% of crime-related guns in Baltimore.

A high school student and a priest recalled a speeding car and seeing a child amid the wreckage of a fatal crash that killed an adult and child in Northeast Baltimore.

The midtown staple had been the neighborhood’s only grocer for years, garnering a special reputations in the community as an intimate family-operated business before it closed abruptly last June.

Lawmakers grilled leaders from the Maryland Judiciary on Thursday during a Senate budget subcommittee hearing.

The effort stands in contrast to those in more conservative states that moved to limit abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Maryland’s Department of Emergency Management said it was “aware of the widespread internet and cellular outages” across the state and was “monitoring the situation.”

State officials detected a case of H5N1 avian influenza in a backyard flock of chickens in Charles County.

The Maryland Department of Correctional Services says transgender prisoners are “housed according to physical genitalia.” Advocates say that’s illegal.

Rep. Glenn Ivey and Rep. Andy Harris are co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill that would award Frederick Douglass the Congressional Gold Medal.

The Humane Society of Harford County needs your help. The shelter is over capacity and needs dogs to be fostered or adopted.

A child was pronounced dead at the scene and a second person who was trapped inside of a vehicle was later pronounced dead.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s plan would make it the second HBCU in the country and first university in the state to offer a stand-alone veterinary school.