Politics

The Baltimore County Public Library is taking a page from the Pratt library’s playbook and engaging the public with lively talks, much-needed services and even some parent-and-me desks so you can take your child to the library and get some work done.

There’s a simple but powerful idea that often gets lost in our polarized conversations: two things can be true at the same time.

The Baltimore Community Foundation donated $1.2 million to help the families of the six workers who died in the Key Bridge disaster, Mayor Brandon Scott said Tuesday afternoon.

Cutting Baltimore City property tax rates would come at a cost — about $120 million annually.

FEMA canceling a disaster mitigation program is a blow to the flood-prone town of Crisfield and a wetlands restoration effort in South Baltimore.

The Supreme Court seemed likely to find that the Montgomery County school system could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious objections.

In 2022, the Appellate Court of Maryland, the state’s mid-level level appeals court, ruled that people whose probation is unsatisfactorily closed after a violation cannot receive an expungement.

Some Montgomery County families want the right to opt kids out of reading inclusive storybooks.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott delivered his State of the City speech in a more casual, TED Talk-style format.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball unveiled a $2.3 billion operating budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning in July, recommending $100 million be trimmed from the county’s books.

Ryan Holiday, an author and podcaster, had planned to mention book bans — including the Naval Academy's own — during an ethics lecture.

Four House Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s plight.

Before his death, Mendel Steiner was fighting off a receivership petition at two Baltimore apartment complexes.

Mayor Brandon Scott will announce the plan in his State of the City address Monday evening.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants to those sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return.

The definition of a Maryland man is at the center of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s fate — and maybe the republic itself.

About 100 people packed a stuffy library meeting room in Greenbelt to vent frustration about the Democratic governor's enthusiasm for a maglev train between Washington and Baltimore.

Sen. Van Hollen is the first person Kilmar Abrego Garcia has spoken to see being unlawfully deported and imprisoned in El Salvador. He told the senator he wants to talk to his wife.

Officials from Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania joined press calls earlier this week alongside the group Evergreen Action, which commissioned the report, to blast PJM’s management.