Local government

In the race for Ward 1 alderman, incumbent Harry Huntley is 10 votes behind his challenger, Thomas Krieck, who ran unaffiliated.

Baltimore Gas and Electric has agreed to repay Baltimore City $670,000 after it was discovered the city was overcharged on numerous utility accounts.

Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman told The Banner that people “throughout the district” have encouraged him to run for County Council.

Ashman was reelected alongside City Council members Lisa Henderson and Jim McNulty, who ran together as a slate.

Democratic candidates held the lead in the mayoral race and in seven of the eight races for City Council. The number of Democratic mail-in ballots far outnumbers the number of Republican and unaffiliated mail-in ballots yet to be counted.

Drivers will now face a $60 fine and a traffic citation for parking in a bike lane in Montgomery County.

As Maryland lawmakers push for additional in-state power sources, Constellation Energy is providing them a range of options. Among them: generating natural gas, creating battery storage and more.

According to the state senator, the consultant she’s been charged with extorting was a “disgruntled woman” whom she fired from her first campaign in 2018 “for cause.” Attar does not state why.

A suite of housing and zoning reforms, once pie-in-the-sky dreams for some advocates, are now law in Baltimore, with Mayor Brandon Scott signing four bills Monday in a City Hall ceremony.

Mayor Brandon Scott, perhaps knowing he will one day have a portrait unveiling, kept his remarks gracious, respectful and relatively vague.

Forty-eight hours from Election Day, Democrat Jared Littmann’s campaign for mayor has an air of inevitability about it. How did Annapolis get to the point where the election feels like a foregone conclusion?

The amusement park, which first opened in the 1970s and has operated as a Six Flags since 1998, shuts down after it closes at 6 p.m. What’s next for the massive tract in Bowie remains unclear.

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier announced she will provide $4 million from the county coffers to assist furloughed federal workers and those set to lose their SNAP benefits as the Trump Administration continues to cut spending.

A dispute over a proposed Denny's in the Shops at Perry Hall stirred over an hour of debate during a recent Baltimore County Council meeting.

Here’s how changes to federal food assistance amid the government shutdown will affect Marylanders who rely on SNAP.

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent a letter to Trump Thursday questioning the legality of the demolition of the White House’s East Wing. Raskin said the teardown — to make room for a ballroom — violates federal law.

Here’s who’s running to be mayor and on the City Council in Annapolis.

In the early 1960s, developer James Rouse quietly cobbled together 14,000 acres of land in Howard County, telling few and using a number of shell companies to keep prices low. People speculated that the land was being used for a research lab or a giant compost pile.

Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday that he was confident in Maryland Human Services Secretary Rafael López, despite the many challenges the embattled state agency has faced.

Purple Line officials say the nighttime work is necessary to finish the crash walls before temperatures make concrete curing difficult.