Local government

Just like the case against Baltimore schools, Fox45 covered the 2020 lawsuit without disclosing their owner’s involvement.

A work group is preparing to make recommendations to the Baltimore County Council on whether its size should be increased to nine or 11 members.

Olszewski, a Democrat in his second term as county executive, hopes to succeed longtime U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, who announced his plans to retire last week.

The city of Frederick was the victim of wire fraud involving almost $290,000, according to Maryland State Police.

Carroll County volunteer firefighter Allison Nicole Creutzer is facing charges after authorities say she set a series of small fires near Liberty Reservoir.

Students and teachers in music, art and gifted-and-talented programs should not fall victim to Howard County school budget cuts, a county parent says.

Nonprofit tree-planting groups say the Department of Transportation is charging them permit fees that it did not used to — and that will will reduce the number of trees they're able to plant.

Maryland lawmakers, for the fourth consecutive year, will consider a bill that would enable Baltimore’s mayor and City Council to set a higher property tax rate for vacant, blighted and abandoned properties.

The Maryland state prosecutor, Charlton T. Howard III, alleges that Anne Arundel County Register of Wills Erica Griswold cashed a $6,645 check intended for her office and hasn't repaid the state. She could not be reached for comment.

Now that a plan for a new sculpture has been dumped, what should go in Westgate Circle — a boundary point between downtown Annapolis and parts of the city unofficially known as the rest of Annapolis? Here, then, are five ideas, all on the theme of Unity.

Since the start of the pandemic, Baltimore has quietly made headway towards closing its digital divide. But without action from Congress soon, nearly 80,000 households risk losing low-cost internet connections.

Fox45 says reporters didn’t know their station’s owner is financing high-profile suit and station will add disclosure to stories.

Family members of Theodore McKeldin, remembered as the “father of the Inner Harbor,” want to preserve his waterfront memorial amid Baltimore-based MCB Real Estate's plans to overhaul Harborplace.

The priorities outlined by Dixon don’t differ widely from those of Scott, whom she hopes to unseat in the Democratic primary this May, and one leading expert on Baltimore crime questioned whether the former mayor’s strategy brings anything “truly new” to the table.

The documents show how Mayor Brandon Scott came to support Baltimore’s sweeping new inclusionary housing law despite 11th-hour changes and warnings from his agencies about the financial consequences.

Thiru Vignarajah is entering the Democratic primary for mayor, joining Mayor Brandon Scott, Sheila Dixon, Bob Wallace and others.

The Orioles issued a statement noting that they will also ban the use of tobacco products at both of their Florida training complexes: Ed Smith Stadium Complex, which hosts spring training, and the Buck O’Neil Complex at Twin Lakes Park.

A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found Anne Arundel County could require gun dealers to distribute suicide prevention and conflict resolution literature. A gun rights group intends to appeal.

Supervisors at all levels failed to enforce overtime policies, according to a state audit.

Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress, must have hoped no one would fact check his Ocean City disinformation event about wind turbines.