Local government

OIG is an acronym that should cheer advocates of good government. But only a handful of the biggest Maryland counties and cities have them -- inspectors general.

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier’s Inspector General nominee faces hurdles, as a majority of the County Council said they would not confirm her.

Daniel Fuentes Espinal, who had been living in the U.S. since arriving in 2001 from his native Honduras, was apprehended by ICE agents in Maryland. He is now in a Louisiana detention center.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott celebrated the new workforce development initiative, launched Thursday in the Park Heights neighborhood where he grew up, as a means to train workers to fix the city's aging infrastructure.

Khadija E. Walker has spent much of her career at the EPA in Chicago.

For-profit house parties are raging in suburban Maryland, prompting Howard and Montgomery county officials to crack down on the practice.

Baltimore partners with leaders in the community to identify and intervene with people at the highest risk of experiencing or committing violence.

Although his VISA had expired, Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal was attempting to obtain a green card.

Weeks after Baltimore leaders sounded the alarm about massive backlogs in the city’s newly instituted permitting system, housing and building permits continue to lag well behind previous years.

City leaders hope third-party investigator can figure out why Baltimore’s manholes keep exploding.

There’s only one buyer for Discovery Village that makes any sense — Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman. Yeah, that guy.

Howard County Council chair Liz Walsh is running for County Executive in 2026, joining two other Democrats in a contested race for Calvin Ball's seat.

It has rained every Wednesday for the last eight weeks. It washes garbage and leaves and dead animals and poop into the Chesapeake Bay.

Del. Nino Mangione this week hosted his third town hall on a proposed 70-mile power line project. One year after residents started to learn about the plan, many remain vehemently opposed to the project that would cut through rural Maryland.

The 19th-century pipes underground in Baltimore City are bursting into flames, and the city and BGE are pointing fingers instead of finding a solution.

Mario Minor, a former concert promoter with no experience opening a grocery store, sold Poppleton residents in Baltimore City a dream.

The Columbia Association board of directors is getting younger, and residents say it's for the better.

The Board of Estimates voted down an amendment intended to address a problem uncovered by Baltimore’s inspector general.

Baltimore groups ask for more funding for drug treatment services in the Penn North neighborhood in West Baltimore.

Montgomery County officials unanimously passed a bill Tuesday creating a hiring preference for displaced federal workers.