Local government

Sarah Ann Street alley homes and home of the Eaddy family to be removed from development plans.

Officials won’t be able to process mail-in ballots until after Election Day after Republican Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed a bill allowing election workers to get mailed ballots ready to count early.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. and three council Democrats are elevating two primary campaigns for open County Council seats in the 1st and 6th Districts, which include Catonsville and Towson.

While finger-pointing over missing and damaged campaign signs have consumed oxygen in the Republican primary for Baltimore County executive, incumbent Democrat Johnny Olszewski is sitting on a war chest of more than $1.9 million.

After voting rights group and residents challenged new County Council districts as unfair to Black residents, a group of Black candidates are running for in districts across the county.

Baltimore City residents will have their first opportunity to elect two candidates for the school board. Here's the choice.

Albert Peisinger's opponent and union leaders, however, say the state's attorney is off the mark in his claims.

Drew Vetter, a top aide to Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., is leaving his post as deputy administrative officer Friday. He will be replaced by Rebecca Young, a former city prosecutor who most recently oversaw the city's sanitation regulatory board.

Shellenberger and Leonard share a political party but their platforms rarely converge.

Responses from the Baltimore County school board candidates in this nonpartisan race show wide differences of opinion on contentious topics such as race, LGBTQ issues and masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

City officials said they are committed to ensuring every tenant stays housed — and paying off what’s now owed to landlords in back payments.

The grants include programs for workforce development, educational opportunities for refugee youth and violence prevention in Baltimore’s LGBTQ community.

Federal charges hang over the incumbent as she tries to defeat well-funded Democratic challengers Ivan Bates and Thiru Vignarajah.

The candidates will have to spend the final weeks before the election keeping those voters on their side and figuring out how to engage those not tuned in.

The same strategy can be used to reshape Baltimore.

The pilot program aims to reroute a small fraction of 911 calls to the crisis center: specifically, those in which callers have thoughts about committing suicide, but no weapons or concrete plans to carry out those thoughts.

Friday's Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade drew strong reactions from Maryland leaders.

Baltimore City Sheriff John W. Anderson is seeking a ninth term in the July 19 Democratic primary. But his challenger, Sam Cogen, a former top deputy, would like to change that. Cogen believes that the sheriff’s office could and should take a more active role in reducing violent crime in the city, in part by adopting modern technology to make the office more efficient.

During this year’s tumultuous budget process, Baltimore City Council members kept agency leaders in marathon hearings and aired sharp grievances with Mayor Brandon Scott’s spending plan.

Baltimore County has missed deadlines, withheld completed records requests and failed to disclose that records were altered, according to a Baltimore Banner review.