Local government

Nepali immigrant Nara Khakurel’s coffee shop in Towson is a nexus of jurors and Baltimore County officials.

Howard County has picked a design by county resident Esen Paradiso to be the new county flag. It replaces a design that’s been in place since 1968.

Environmentalists have pushed for years to no avail to end the state’s subsidy for trash incinerators, which burn garbage to produce electricity and steam.

Baltimore County government should reconsider its Urban Rural Demarcation Line to address its housing crisis, says Sharonda Dillard-Huffman, a candidate for Baltimore County Council.

Longtime political aide Anthony W. McCarthy died Sunday after a lengthy battle with kidney disease. He was 57.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said Friday that the school board’s $1.26 billion funding request is “unattainable and unaffordable.”

Immigrants and their attorneys claim there are no beds, little food and medicine at Baltimore’s ICE holding room.

The end of Gavin Buckley's parade is in sight. Term-limited, the mayor leaves office in December for a return to the business that brought him to Annapolis, restaurants. Most mayors are soon forgotten. Will it be different for the brash Australian?

Novelist Amitav Ghosh discusses climate change ahead of his address at Loyola University Maryland 2025 Humanities Symposium.

The Maryland General Assembly committees that oversee energy issues join a growing chorus of lawmakers and consumer advocates alarmed by rapidly rising utility bills.

Charm City has enough problems to overcome, and self-inflicted ones like poor permitting only make it more difficult.

A bill introduced last year to speedily renew the district became mired in the City Council, received no hearing and ultimately died at the end of the session.

The state and county governments are making resources available for laid-off federal workers.

More than 800 NOAA staffers fired last month as the Trump administration pushes aggressive tactics to winnow the federal workforce.

Advocates are backing a City Council bill that would create a task force to help renegotiate Baltimore's PILOT with nonprofits.

A Howard County resident who recently traveled abroad tested positive for the highly contagious virus measles, the Maryland Department of Health said Sunday.

Months after a 36-year-old trash collector died on the job, state inspectors found that Baltimore's Department of Public Works routinely exposed employees to dangerous heat and humidity.

Mayor Brandon Scott and wife Hana Scott welcomed a baby girl to their family.

Gannon Sprinkle, a junior at the University of Maryland, hopes to "bridge the gap" between college students and long-term residents.

Johns Hopkins researchers believe their findings represent the first assessment of how Baltimore-area residents think about climate change.