Local government

The Harris family thought they had protected a family home from tax sale in Baltimore City, but an $888 unpaid tax bill sent the property to foreclosure.

Seeking to make evictions more humane, the Anne Arundel County Council passed a bill Monday night to overhaul the process in the county.

According to Baltimore Department of Finance projections, the loss of all that garbage will yield about $4 million less than what budget writers had anticipated.

The proposed transmission lines would follow a serpentine path through Baltimore’s Otterbein and Ridgely’s Delight neighborhoods in order to connect a substation near downtown with one on the peninsula.

The Montgomery County Council announced its latest step Monday to counter the federal campaign to deport immigrants, which has disrupted the lives of hundreds of county residents.

The Maryland Stadium Authority owns Shamrock Farm now, and the legislation would set the sale price at roughly $4.5 million, the same amount the state paid last year.

The legislation would clarify in Maryland law that inspectors general are not subject to standard restrictions on Maryland Public Information Act requests.

Howard County’s library system said Friday it is reinstating dozens of librarian support staffers it terminated this week for budgetary reasons.

After heavy snow in January, sewer lines in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood were overwhelmed, spilling water, waste and other materials into their basements, tubs and toilets, residents said.

Seventeen candidates — all Democrats — will compete for four at-large seats on the County Council.

COLUMN | Welcome to the upside-down world of traffic court, where a random license plate scan shifts the burden of proof to the driver.

The report says employees in the mayor’s office did not submit waivers for approval for 336 transactions between July 1, 2022, and Nov. 17, 2025.

A group of West Baltimore tenants claimed it was an act of fraud to charge rent without a license.

Annapolis lawmakers are considering a proposal to cede some of the governor’s authority over public transit in Baltimore to local authorities — a move that advocates say is long overdue.

A certified planner and a volunteer firefighter have entered the race for Anne Arundel County’s top elected office. There are now five candidates, including four Democrats and one Republican.

“There are things you can only do in person,” Bruce Bereano said. “You can’t do it any other way.”

The man, Maurquise Emillo James, 22, of Baltimore, was working as a medical technician in the senior living facility when he shot a resident, Robert Fuller Jr., according to court documents.

The first Baltimore County Council expansion since 1956, plus no incumbent county executive, brings out a diverse field of candidates.

Red Maple Place, one of the Baltimore region’s most contested housing developments, faces yet another obstacle after Maryland’s environmental agency ordered a moratorium on some construction work.

Amid growing controversy over a Baltimore County Council vote in November 2024 that would double pensions for five of its seven members, two of them proposed legislation to roll that decision back.