Local government

Howard County voters had to wait one week and a day for school board election results, with races decided on razor-thin margins.

Trump attempted to slash funding for the Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Program in all four years of his presidency. Though Congress ultimately blocked those proposals, Maryland environmentalists are preparing to go on the defense again.

The settlement doesn’t involve the exchange of money and required Jovani Patterson, the lone remaining plaintiff, to acknowledge the school system hadn’t broken any laws or violated any rules.

There’s another phase to the trial — and likely appeals — after Tuesday’s verdict. The city has laid out a plan to spend settlements over the next 15 years.

Two drug distributors, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, are liable for their role in Baltimore’s deadly opioid crisis, a civil jury found.

The Baltimore County inspector general found the county wasted more than $17,000 on unnecessary tolls and fees. It should have gotten, or in some cases properly used, E-ZPass transponders.

Kenneth Oliver was elected in 2002 and represented the 4th District for more than a decade in Baltimore County.

The driver of the garbage truck backed into the sanitation worker, pinning him against a wooden light pole, the sources said.

Bomb threats were emailed to 15 local elections offices in Maryland on Friday night. They appear to be from overseas.

Baltimore’s opioid trial against the two drug distributors who didn’t settle has become, in many ways, a contest of expert witnesses.

The first woman elected to serve as president of Baltimore City Council, Mary Pat Clarke died on Sunday morning, according to sources close to her.

A city sanitation worker died after being injured while on duty, according to the Baltimore City Department of Public Works.

After loses by Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, Maryland women in politics ponder whether they will see a woman president in their lifetime.

Black women voted to make history supporting Kamala Harris. After her loss, many take it personally.

A development plan that would address flooding issues at City Dock in Annapolis could face delays after an anonymous group filed a lawsuit to stop the project, city officials said.

A video of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott lamenting the loss of Vice President Kamala Harris — and America’s treatment of Black women in general — has gone viral.

Baltimore County voters approved a ballot measure to expand the council from seven to nine members. Backers hope it will lead to more diversity on a now all-male council with only one person of color.

At one Baltimore encampment, leaving can be more challenging than staying.

“This is the biggest and most important case in the city’s history,” Baltimore’s lead attorney, Bill Carmody, told jurors.

Neighbors want to shut down an Essex boarding house. Residents say it’s the only thing keeping them off the streets.