Local government

Officials cited low-staffed crews and growing amounts of recycling pickup as obstacles at a Department of Public Works oversight hearing on Wednesday.

More than 1 million Maryland residents on Medicare will pay less for prescription drugs.

The city earmarked $4.8 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding for the program.

Federal housing officials in the Baltimore HUD field office have requested an investigation from Office of the Inspector General of Investigations of AIDS Interfaith Residential Services and its wholly owned subsidiary Empire Homes of Maryland. Non-profit CEO says: 'There was no impropriety.'

It’s been years since the political stars were this well aligned for substantially upgrading Baltimore’s transit system.

It’s a delay that advocates for Baltimore nonprofits say can hobble organizations, especially those with shoestring staffs, who rely on the federal grant funding to meet basic needs such as paying employees and providing them with health care benefits.

In September of 2020, Nick Frisone received an email from the United States Postal Service’s “informed delivery” service notifying him that his and his mother’s election ballots were scheduled for delivery. They never arrived.

Restaurant owners who want to build on or expand their waterfront properties in Baltimore County could soon be exempt from state waterway protection regulations, per legislation under the County Council's consideration. A nonprofit dedicated to improving the Chesapeake Bay's health says the bill violates Maryland law.

While Baltimore ranks in the bottom half of large municipalities in both the amount of stimulus money obligated and spent, according to a city analysis, it outpaces a group of "peer" cities.

A series of cascading errors by Baltimore’s finance department and city vendors led the Bureau of Revenue Collections to inadvertently send the wrong company a check for $2 million, nearly $60,000 of which cannot be recovered, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General.

The attorney has served as Scott’s right hand for three years, providing a source of stability for the mayor across different political offices and the tumult of the pandemic.

Election officials found a discrepancy between the total number of votes in the certified results and the number of accepted mail-in and provisional ballots.

The Baltimore County Council is due to vote this month on legislation that would hike the salaries of the county executive, council members and the county’s head administrator by around 10% and do away with pension limits for council members.

Patrick Murray's departure follows that of Deputy County Administrative Officer Drew Vetter.

“Renew Baltimore,” a group that sought a ballot referendum to lower the city’s property tax rate over six years, has fallen short of the required number of signatures it needed to get on the ballot.

Sam Cogen promises that his win for Baltimore sheriff is also a win for city tenants facing eviction.

Sam Cogen, a former longtime Baltimore sheriff’s deputy, claimed victory Friday evening in the Democratic primary to be the city’s next sheriff. Cogen was well ahead of his former boss, 33-year-incument John W. Anderson, with most mail-in ballots counted. No Republican entered the race, so the Democratic primary winner will likely become the next sheriff.

Six of the 10 Baltimore County board of education candidates are moving onto the general election this November after the counting of mail-in ballots from the July 19, 2022 primary finished Friday afternoon.

With all ballots counted, the four-term incumbent held a 2,115 vote margin over challenger Robbie Leonard.

Hanna was to appear beside Bates Friday morning to announce that she was dropping out of the Nov. 8 general election.