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To stem rising energy costs, Maryland leaders want to build new power plants
The Maryland Democratic plan, announced Monday, drew pushback from climate advocates who warned about courting polluting fuels like natural gas.
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson talks about energy legislation during a news conference on Lawyers Mall in Annapolis on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.
Three state mortician board members resign amid scrutiny
Days after Gov. Wes Moore ordered an independent review of the state board that oversees the funeral industry, three members of the board resigned, according to a state official.
The governor's office has asked three members of the state body that oversees the funeral industry to resign.
Big Tech sues over Maryland law protecting kids online
The tech industry is suing to block the Maryland Kids Code, a law that requires companies to put guardrails on their apps and websites that children use.
The U.S. and Maryland flags fly at half staff on Jan. 20, 2025, hours before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States, to honor Jimmy Carter, the 39th.
Federal workers, how have Trump’s policies changed your job or agency?
From the end of remote work to the recent buyout offers, how has your life been affected? Share your story.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters from the Resolute Desk after signing an executive order to appoint the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in the Oval Office at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump also signed a memorandum ordering an immediate assessment of aviation safety and ordering an elevation of what he called “competence” over “D.E.I.”
Here are some goods in the crosshairs of Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
President Donald Trump declared an economic emergency Saturday in order to place duties of 10% on all imports from China and 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada.
New Ford F-150 trucks go through the assembly line at the Ford Dearborn Plant on April 11, 2024 in Dearborn, Michigan.
Elon Musk says President Donald Trump has ‘agreed’ USAID should be shut down
The U.S. Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according to the Trump administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, the war in Ukraine, cryptocurrencies and other topics. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Maryland recorded an alarming rise in child deaths from abuse and neglect. No one noticed.
As many as 83 Maryland children died from abuse or neglect in 2023, making the state’s published rate of child maltreatment fatalities among the worst in the nation.
There’s room but no refugees: How Trump has upended Maryland’s resettlement system
President Donald Trump’s freeze on new refugees entering the country has left one Afghan family in Baltimore divided between two lands.
One Afghan family in Baltimore — a 53-year-old father, photographed here, and his wife and daughter — were relocated to Baltimore, but with President Trump’s freeze on new refugees entering the country, the family’s 20-year-old son remains stuck in Afghanistan.
Anne Arundel Democrats nominate 26-year-old Dylan Behler to House of Delegates
Anne Arundel County Democrats on Saturday selected Dylan Behler, a party activist and former General Assembly staffer, as their choice to fill a vacancy in the House of Delegates.
Dylan Behler, center, is applauded by fellow candidates after being nominated by the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee to fill a vacancy in the House of Delegates, during a meeting at Annapolis Middle School on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2025. To the left is Abigail Diehl and to the right is Chrissy Holt.
Maryland’s AG is building a million-dollar litigation team to battle Trump
Maryland's attorney general got $1 million to dedicate to federal litigation. It's looking like that money will be increasingly important as Trump's executive orders take effect.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has already joined two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration, and is hiring staff for other potential cases.
Health giants, utilities, Harborplace developer helped pay for mayor’s inauguration
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott raised more than $400,000 for his inaugural festivities last year from some of the region’s most prominent and politically connected health, utility and real estate companies.
Mayor Brandon Scott takes the stage at his inauguration ceremony at the Murphy Fine Arts Center at Morgan State University in December.
Federal cuts mean 117 layoffs at Baltimore County’s Job Corps Center
The U.S. Department of Labor is closing the Woodstock Job Corps Center in Woodstock, Maryland, following budget cuts to the youth career training program.
The Woodstock Job Corps Center told the state it is closing and laying off 117 employees.
Chasen Cos. faces foreclosure in Fells Point over alleged bank loan default
Chasen Cos., a Baltimore development firm faces new legal trouble after a bank alleged it defaulted on a nearly $14 million loan for properties in Fells Point.
Chasen Cos. is facing foreclosure on a trio of lots in Fells Point.
This Baltimore manufacturer can’t wait for Trump’s tariffs
The owner of South Baltimore's Marlin Steel has been imploring someone to do something about the “cheaters” in other countries — especially China.
Drew Greenblatt, who owns the South Baltimore steel fabrication plant Marlin Steel, can't wait for Trump's tariffs.
Gov. Moore’s Baltimore County school visit was bright, even as budget woes loom
Moore enthusiastically shared his commitment to education, highlighting a $550 million bump in funding for public schools next year. There was no mention of the losses local school system leaders say they will face if the governor’s budget plans are approved.
Gov. Wes Moore visits Reisterstown Elementary School on Thursday, January 30, 2025, to talk with educators and highlight his funding plan for public schools.
6 people were caught with guns at BWI. Here’s what happened next.
Seeing the significance of 47 guns accidentally brought to BWI can be hard. It’s not at the airport. You would have seen it if you had been with me Monday in an almost empty Annapolis courtroom.
On Jan. 29, 2025, Transportation Security Agency officials released this image of what a gun in a backpack looks like when detected in an x-ray machine at a security checkpoint.
After bodies piled up at a crematory, Moore orders review of oversight agency
Following the discovery of stockpiled bodies at a Southern Maryland crematory, Gov. Wes Moore is ordering an independent review of the state board that oversees the industry.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is ordering a review of the Maryland Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors after the board suspended the license of a crematory in Southern Maryland after finding it was not cremating the bodies entrusted to it.
Live coverage: What’s on this year’s gun safety agenda?
Lawmakers will dig in this week on moving legislation through the pipeline.
House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne A. Jones conducts chamber business.
How Trump could hobble Maryland’s plans to curb climate change
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore at the Port of Baltimore following an announcement of funding for carbon reduction at U.S. ports by President Joe Biden. Some fear how such funding will be treated by President Donald Trump's administration.
Maryland’s federal delegation is also caught in the Trump whiplash
Members of Congress are hearing the latest twists in the news.
Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth and members of Maryland's federal delegation speak with reporters Wednesday on President Trump's hold on federal funds.
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