Community issues

The state is implementing a modest increase in the gas tax on July 1. This is what that means for drivers.

The Baltimore City Board of Estimates approved a 7.25% water rate increase for Baltimore County residents beginning July 1 for the coming fiscal year.

The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday.

COLUMN | I am excited about the idea of Baltimore’s harbor being swimmable. But you’re going to have to do it without your girl.

The Maryland Second Look Act allows people who’ve served at least 20 years in prison for crimes committed when they were adults younger than 25 to ask a court to reduce their sentence.

After helping elect Zohran Mamdani in New York, the progressive Working Families Party has spent big backing Sarah David in the race for Baltimore County’s top prosecutor.

A 77-year-old man who was severely injured during an explosion in a shed near Annapolis this week was mixing chemicals, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Marshal’s Office.

An MTA bus collided with a work van in Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, hospitalizing a dozen people, fire officials said.

The University of Maryland, College Park, laid off 84 employees on Wednesday, according to a letter sent to the faculty and students.

For the second year in a row, Annapolis Pride will hold it parade and festival in the fall instead of June.

A hearing in Luigi Mangione ’s state murder case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was held in secret Wednesday after the judge shut out the press and public without explanation.

Amtrak and development team Penn Station Partners are hitting pause on plans to expand the historic Central Baltimore train station amid a project reset.

The county's Department of Public Works and Transportation says it's aware of safety concerns along Kenwood Avenue. It plans to conduct a new traffic assessment to "determine what additional measures may be warranted."

A disagreement over how to notify survivors of sexual assault about decades-old DNA could cost Baltimore County $5.3 million in state funding.

A federal judge sentenced two Baltimore men on Tuesday to lengthy prison terms for their involvement in an attempted carjacking that turned deadly in 2022, officials said.

A bus driver who was involved in a deadly crash in Virginia pleaded guilty Tuesday to a previous speeding citation in Maryland, Anne Arundel County court officials said.

A 70-year-old woman, Paula McDonald, has been identified as the victim of a three-alarm fire last week in Baltimore's Barclay neighborhood.

A Timonium man is being held without bail after allegedly threatening and brandishing a semiautomatic gun at the family of Liam O’Donoghue, a 16-year-old Calvert Hall student who lost an arm in a car crash that killed two of his friends last month.

A man was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Tuesday after an explosion in a detached garage at a home near Annapolis, fire officials said.

Kiannah Bonaparte, 49, of Original Northwood, appeared on Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court for her trial on charges of first- and second-degree assault, conspiracy to commit first-degree assault and reckless endangerment.