Local government

Preservation Maryland plans to restore the old Ellicott City jail while also not shying away from the jail’s racist past.

The main role of Baltimore’s liquor board is to approve licenses for businesses, including restaurants, taverns and liquor stores.

Baltimore has been paying for the stable space annually in spite of the City Council defunding the mounted unit in 2020.

Columbia is getting a new $1 million band shell at Lake Kittamaqundi to house dozens of free concerts and events staged at the lakefront each year.

Trash and recyclables are hauled away on a nightly basis, but residents were concerned a storm could carry trash and other pollutants into the Jones Falls.

Six months after the bulldozers came for a beloved Randallstown landmark, the Baltimore County Council has passed legislation to fortify historic protections.

The candidate with the biggest war chest in the race for Montgomery County executive is not seeking public matching dollars.

Two entrepreneurs are taking advantage of a new law and plan to offer water cremation in Montgomery County.

Columbia’s cluster mailboxes are among the oldest in the country and the subject of a yearslong dispute between federal and local authorities over maintenance responsibilities.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said he was making a “firm commitment” and placing “firm accountability on all of our people” to make sure they use the rest of his time in office to “fix this.”

Anne Arundel County will issue a public apology for its role in instituting and supporting slavery. For the county executive, the direct descendant of people who enslaved others, it’s personal.

Landlords like Dontae Carroll say Wall Street’s freeze on a specific housing loan has put their plans to purchase on hold.

Most Montgomery County Council members want to force landlords to give tenants two full weeks’ notice before evicting them.

The city of Baltimore accuses MoneyLion of using misleading marketing and charging excessive fees that officials allege trap low-income residents in cycles of debt.

Residents of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties could pay roughly $18 more on their quarterly water and sewer bills next year.

An ambitious plan to redevelop what’s called the Superblock, an area of downtown Baltimore, has been stuck in the mud for a quarter century. Much of the area was razed after a fire last month.

The Baltimore County Council will vote tonight on whether to give a politically connected developer a tax break of $16.5 million over 30 years in exchange for the developer agreeing to make 10% of the project into affordable housing units.

Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young introduced legislation that would allow a Catonsville developer to temporarily store construction equipment in an area zoned for office-residential.

The suit stemmed from a disagreement over what Patrick Murray told Kelly Madigan over breakfast at a Towson coffeehouse.

Nearly five months after floodwaters ravaged Westernport, a small, rural Allegany County town, the yearslong work of repairing and rebuilding paused, briefly, for a celebration.