Local government

The stench can be overpowering. A rotten egg cloud so sour it causes headaches and watery eyes. Residents weep as they describe the feelings of nausea and helplessness, sick with the frustration of suffering this miasma.

Continued harm-reduction efforts and improved prevention strategies are needed to address Baltimore's drug overdose crisis, professors with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.

CSX argues that many of the methods deployed by the community’s researchers, including low-cost air quality monitors, tape strips and statistical models, were flawed.

Baltimore County Executive says he stands ready to compromise on a better bill.

One of the last people to see Devon Wellington alive, before he overdosed in 2021, has developed a relationship with the man’s mother. She taught him how to use Narcan, and they recently attended a street renaming event together.

Revenue from property taxes made up $1.14 billion of city’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Renew Baltimore calls for the city’s tax rate to be nearly halved over the next seven years.

The Baltimore City Council will hold at least four oversight hearings examining the city’s response to its unprecedented overdose epidemic.

Baltimore has settled with pharmaceutical company Allergan for $45 million, a big win compared to the amount the city would have received had it joined Maryland in a similar agreement.

Housing secretary Jake Day said the bill would have a calamitous effect on rent and housing costs.

Sheila E. will headline this year's Artscape, the 40th anniversary of the free arts festival.

A final vote, which would also make the council a full-time job, is expected July 1.

Councilman Mark Conway plans to introduce legislation on Monday to convene a hearing in late June.

A hamlet in Baltimore County is so quiet it is actually called Boring. And neighbors are campaigning to keep it that way, fighting a zoning change that would turn their firehouse and bingo hall into a manufacturing facility.

The Democrat introduced a charter amendment to remove two mayoral appointees to the Board of Estimates, which would give the mayor, City Council president and comptroller — three citywide elected positions — equal control.

West Baltimore residents talk about what they’d like to see in Poppleton, now that the city is terminating its agreement with a New York developer that has struggled to build there.

Who will best represent the viewpoints of loyal Sheila Dixon supporters?

The $8.45 million commitment will support commercial corridors, small businesses and rehabilitating vacant homes.

The worker-owned business employs a diverse workforce, which has first dibs on every home it rehabs.

The Baltimore County Council on Monday passed a contentious measure designed to reduce overcrowding in schools by adding an approval process for developers who want to build new housing.

The city’s fund, one of several collecting donations for the survivors and victims of the Key Bridge disaster, was originally slated to close on Friday, but the mayor’s office said it planned to keep it open because of continued support.