Local government

City code states that water should be shut off inside vacant buildings, but the housing department rarely enforces the law.

Members of the Baltimore City Council voted to advance an ordinance Tuesday that would restore tenants’ right to negotiate privately with landlords for rental properties ahead of owners making other offers.

MICA administrators won’t say how many employees will be laid off ahead of the fall 2023 academic semester but have indicated that “rightsizing” is ongoing.

There’s never been a consensus in Maryland on the need for reparations, what they might look like or who should qualify for them. Legislation to create a commission on the concept — just study the idea — has died twice in the Maryland General Assembly in the last two years. Maybe, just maybe, we’re about to see the start of a campaign to approach this at the local level.

Kayla Drummond, a rising senior at Parkville High School, will be the first student board member with budgetary voting rights thanks to legislation signed by the governor earlier this year.

Political experts say voters will remember what could be the largest shooting in city history — and Mayor Scott’s leadership in the aftermath.

For several months, the General Assembly has been dealing with a post-election series of departures and appointments.

The revived east-west Red Line project will bring Baltimore communities together and provide a range of benefits to residents across the Baltimore region, say Gov. Wes Moore, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore visited the Brooklyn neighborhood Tuesday, where he other officials answered for what some residents called a lack of resources until tragedy struck.

Two people were killed and a staggering 28 were injured in Sunday’s mass shooting in Brooklyn. Here’s what you need to know.

The first Marylanders to hand over cash in exchange for legally purchased recreational marijuana Saturday began to fill a pot of state money set aside for communities with disproportionate amounts of cannabis-related arrests.

Baltimore residents have seen a pollapalooza in the City Council president race.

Leaders from civil rights groups gathered outside Baltimore Police headquarters Thursday morning, decrying what they called Mayor Brandon Scott’s lack of transparency in appointing a police commissioner and demanding he restart the search process.

The Mayor’s Office of Aging would focus on topics such as income maintenance, housing and personal care services.

She was arrested in Federal Hill earlier that day while protesting a move by BGE to shut off gas service at several homes that refused to let contractors install external gas regulators.

No other major candidates have officially declared a run against Mayor Brandon Scott in the Democratic primary, but Sheila Dixon is getting close.

Already officials are eyeing a massive, multimillion-dollar redevelopment project at Security Square Mall as an opportunity to start flexing broader land acquisition powers granted by the General Assembly in 2022 through a quasi-public West Baltimore County Redevelopment Authority.

Baltimore fire officials this week released the results of their investigation into an explosion at a contractor facility at the plant, stating a spark in the dryer ignited dust and caused an explosion that then ignited thermal oil.

The season has always brought a sense of nervousness for city leaders, and this year Baltimore is grappling with an alarming surge in teen gun violence — the most dangerous year for teenagers since at least 2015.

West Baltimore's ill-fated stretch of roadway that has come to be known as the Highway to Nowhere was the product of bad decision making and disregard for the mostly Black neighborhoods it harmed, says E. Evans Paull, a retired city planner and the author of a book about the project's history and impact.