Local government

Current and former park employees say Maryland State Park Superintendent Nita Settina and other officials knew about problems at Gunpowder Falls State Park, but failed to take substantive action.

Baltimore City Solicitor Jim Shea will retire early next year, the Scott administration announced Thursday.

In a vehement denial of many assertions in the report, Baltimore County’s top administrator, Stacy Rodgers, asked Madigan not to publish her findings, which Rodgers said are false.

Several other department heads are leaving county government.

As ballot canvassing stretched into its fifth day on Tuesday, Steuart Pittman squeaked ahead of Jessica Haire by just 192 votes, with more mail votes remaining to be counted.

The change, made public this week, is an attempt by new developers at the New York-based MAG Partners and the San Francisco-based MacFarlane Partners to turn a page on a contentious project that has faced delays, turnover and public criticism for its heavy reliance on subsidies.

The complaint asserts that the subcommittees are performing the bulk of the work for Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Ethics and Accountability; because of that, the complainant writes subcommittees’ deliberations over policy changes and interviews should be public.

Some have questioned the Visit Baltimore CEO's high salary; others say marketing the city — with all it's challenges — is a tough job.

A spokeswoman for Mayor Brandon Scott said he was not paid to appear in a branded video touting Nike sneakers produced by DTLR.

Real estate development firm MAG Partners has taken over Port Covington and aims to leave the past behind. It will announce a new name for the development this week.

Forty-one socially conservative candidates from across Maryland ran for school board seats Tuesday — and 25 of them appear to be on their way to winning their races.

The agency confirms that Dean Hughes’ former boss, park manager Michael Browning, who is in jail awaiting trial on rape charges, is on leave without pay.

Trone's victory in the hotly-contested race denied the GOP an opportunity to flip the seat with redrawn state political maps.

Democratic candidate Wes Moore won nearly all precincts in the D.C. and Maryland suburbs, while winning cities on the Eastern Shore and in Western Maryland.

Steuart Pittman’s campaign was confident Friday morning that the coming days of ballot counting would put the Democratic incumbent in the lead.

Wes Moore’s historic win puts Maryland on the national map in discussions about Black electoral politics at the statewide level, according to a political expert.

DPW Director Jason Mitchell said in a statement that a 108-inch stormwater main installed in the 1880s caused the sinkhole.

Recently-reelected Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski promised to push forward an effort to add more council seats to the board in 2023, a move that could mean another chance for representation.

It’s part of a new plan that includes paid workforce trainings for youth who agree to stop squeegeeing.

City DOT Director Steve Sharkey will leave his post to become the deputy director of a mayoral office. His appointment as DOT head was largely celebrated by transit advocates.