Community issues

Baltimore County’s proposed $5 billion budget for fiscal year 2027 includes a nearly 4% increase in spending and no new tax hikes.

As Baltimore’s proposed Red Line light rail faces mounting obstacles, the Maryland Transit Administration will present alternative options.

A Columbia mother and her boyfriend gave different answers to police about what caused the bruises on her daughter’s face or how the 3-year-old came to ingest a bottle of melatonin.

The Howard County Public School System extended its contract with Zum, the controversial school bus company, for five more years.

The Johns Hopkins University’s global aid nonprofit Jhpiego was among several groups to receive massive federal funding increases in the last fiscal year.

Downtown Partnership leader Shelonda Stokes got an assist from a Baltimore designer for this year’s annual report for Charm City.

Paula Hollinger, a nurse who served in the Maryland General Assembly for nearly three decades, died March 25 of leukemia. She was 85.

COLUMN | When Northwood-Appold United Methodist’s BGE bills totaled nearly $7,000 in January and February, the congregation banded together to take care of it.

Launched last fall, Maryland Youth Mental Health Corps is the newest addition to the Maryland Corps/Service Year Option for 18 to 29-year-olds.

The injunction prohibits building and operating detention space inside the facility while awaiting further arguments in the federal court case.

Several signs on the doors and inside the post office in Fells Point warn customers before entering: There are no stamps.

The Maryland Prescription Drug Affordability Board took the first step to limit the cost of a common diabetes drug, with Ozempic potentially next.

Lawrence E. Smith, the decorated former Dunbar High football coach, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for stealing $215,000 in overtime pay as a city schools police officer.

Baltimore broke an 85-year-old heat record Wednesday when the temperature reached 91 degrees, the highest ever recorded on April 15 in the city, according to the National Weather Service.

A teen is charged with arson and threats of mass violence for allegedly writing the name of the Sandy Hook shooter at a Bethesda elementary school and burning a shed, Montgomery County Police said Wednesday.

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier announced funding for 12 additional battalion chief positions, more than doubling the number of senior officers available to oversee an emergency response at the scene.

For the first time, city taxpayers may be able to pay their debts in monthly installments.

The union for Anne Arundel County police officers has endorsed the challenger to State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess, arguing that the Police Department’s relationship with the county prosecutor’s office is broken.

Nino Mangione faces Theaux Le Gardeur in Republican primary. Democrat Shawn McIntosh awaits in general election in Baltimore County.

The future of driverless cars in Maryland is up on blocks after lawmakers left Annapolis without passing key legislation authorizing their use on state roads.