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    Groups drop suit over pollution worries at redevelopment of WWII bomber plant in Middle River
    A dispute over pollution concerns from construction work at the site of a World War II-era manufacturing plant in Eastern Baltimore County has fizzled quickly.
    Martin State Airport is seen with a coating of snow after a winter storm.
    Tim Hortons plans Maryland expansion in Howard, Carroll counties
    Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee chain, is searching for 10 locations to open in Maryland, according to a news release.
    OAKVILLE, CANADA - AUGUST 26:  An exterior view of a Tim Hortons Restaurant in front of the Tim Hortons Corporate Headquarters on August 26, 2014 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.  Burger King has agreed to pay $11 billion to buy the Tim Hortons chain.
    Sheriff’s office won’t cooperate with Maryland power line developer ‘under any circumstance’
    The Carroll County Sheriff’s office said it would not “force” a landowner to comply with a civil access order.
    An existing set of transmission lines crosses over Old York Road near the start of the proposed route of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP) in northern Baltimore County.
    Baltimore County Public Library takes a page from the Pratt with marquee author series
    The Baltimore County Public Library is taking a page from the Pratt library’s playbook and engaging the public with lively talks, much-needed services and even some parent-and-me desks so you can take your child to the library and get some work done.
    Bestselling authors Erik Larson, Jennifer Weiner, and Percival Everett are three of the upcoming speakers at the Baltimore County Public Library's author series.
    Baltimore’s proposed tax cut could come at a cost — like a new trash fee
    Cutting Baltimore City property tax rates would come at a cost — about $120 million annually.
    Trash cans on North Chester Street are set out for pickup in the afternoon of Thursday, August 29, 2024.
    A troubled New York investor started to flip a Baltimore community. Then he died.
    Before his death, Mendel Steiner was fighting off a receivership petition at two Baltimore apartment complexes.
    The Dutch Village apartment complex was home to as many as 120 students at Yorkwood Elementary School last year.
    Moore’s Asia trip helped by baseball talk and a slight football gaffe
    Sports were frequent cultural touchstones on Gov. Wes Moore's trip to Japan and South Korea.
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore presented Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa of the Kanagawa Prefecture a signed Tomoyuki Sugano Baltimore Orioles jersey. A pitcher for the Os, Sugano is from the Kanagawa Prefecture and is a three-time MVP in Japan.
    Eastern Baltimore County is changing. Will its representation?
    The Baltimore County Council is expanding from seven districts to nine in 2026, after voters approved the change last fall. What that will look like is unclear.
    A construction worker drives a backhoe past the Berkleigh luxury apartment complex in the Greenleigh community of Middle River
    The city sold this land for $40. With nothing built, investor wants to cash out.
    The city created this parcel as part of the ambitious — now failed — plan to turn the West Baltimore neighborhood of Poppleton into a dense, upscale community.
    La Cite had been planning to build an age-restricted apartment building on this lot until it lost the development rights. Photographed in the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore on February 26, 2025
    Gov. Wes Moore kicks off Asia trade trip with maglev train ride: ‘This is the future’
    Moore needed one word to summarize the experience: “Wow.”
    Gov. Wes Moore smiles as he departs a Central Japan Railway Company SCMAGLEV train Saturday, April 12, 2025. "Wow" is how he described the experience, a 311 MPH futuristic train ride.
    5 more Black-owned businesses to move into Baltimore’s downtown amid DEI backlash
    The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore announced its third cohort of five businesses that will open storefronts in downtown Baltimore late this year.
    The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore announced its next cohort of the Black Owned and Operated Storefront Tenancy program Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Downtown Partnership President Shelonda Stokes, center.
    Judge weighs fate of one of Baltimore’s most controversial land deals
    A lawsuit challenging a 19-year-old Poppleton land deal between the city of Baltimore and a controversial developer had a pivotal hearing Wednesday.
    A portion of the La Cite development can be seen beyond older homes in the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore on February 26, 2025.
    A Baltimore housing program is leading the nation in a key metric
    A Cityscape paper found the Baltimore area is bucking a national trend.
    West Baltimore housing
    Baltimore County Council advances measure to make it harder to build in rural areas
    The Baltimore County Council has voted to advance a measure that would require a supermajority to build in designated rural areas of the county. The charter amendment will now go before voters in 2026.
    The Baltimore County Council had made it harder to develop in designated rural areas of the county. The urban-rural line protects the Gunpowder River and county reservoirs, including Loch Raven, shown here.
    Baltimore could pay for downtown’s facelift using this one weird trick
    A proposed authority to oversee the Baltimore Convention Center could also control other parts of downtown Baltimore.
    The Baltimore Convention Center on April 2, 2025.
    Choate House was a national historic landmark. A Baltimore County developer bulldozed it.
    The developer who tore the historic home down said he also wanted a different outcome, that he even offered to pay to move it to a parcel of land he is donating to the county.
    The old Choate House, photographed in 1989
    Baltimore sues Poppleton developer over unpaid water bills
    The city of Baltimore is suing La Cité Development over an unpaid water bill of $478,051.
    The Center\West apartment complex in Poppleton, developed by La Cité, has unpaid water bills. The city is now suing.
    Is breaching Baltimore County’s urban-rural divide ‘the dumbest growth possible?’
    As the Baltimore County Council considers a measure that would make it harder to change its Urban Rural Demarcation Line, here are answers to five questions about the decades-old URDL.
    Prettyboy Dam impounds the Gunpowder Falls to create the 1500-acre Prettyboy Reservoir in northern Baltimore County.
    Greenleigh, in Baltimore County, could offer a way out of the housing crisis
    Greenleigh’s residential housing success story could offer a blueprint for the rest of the state during a national housing crisis.
    Asa Johnson Sr. sits on the front steps of his home in the Greenleigh development in Middle River.
    One of downtown Baltimore’s biggest landlords hit with foreclosure
    A lender is foreclosing on a downtown apartment building owned by one Baltimore’s most successful developers of office-to-residential conversions.
    The 11-story Art Deco-style apartment building is the former home of the Baltimore Life Insurance Company. Photographed on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
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