Politics

A Baltimore County councilman wants to make it harder for developers to build in parts of the county outside of the Urban-Rural Demarcation Line.

Maintaining Maryland’s prison fences is estimated to cost the state $34 million every two years for the next 30 years.

Trump has said the tariffs are to force the two U.S. neighbors to step up their fight against fentanyl trafficking and stop illegal immigration.

Never before had more people accused of crimes in Maryland, but deemed too mentally ill to participate in their own cases, been left languishing in jail than in February.

President Donald Trump's speech on Tuesday isn’t technically considered a State of the Union address — that comes next year, after he’s been on the job for longer — but there’s no distinguishable difference for anyone watching at home.

Legislation would require schools to use a national educator database to help weed out bad actors.

Redevelopment of Poe Homes in West Baltimore, and other distressed communities across the region, could slow if federal housing grants and programs end.

How could any teenager worth the title resist the chance to submit an entry tweaking the congressman for his tone-deaf dismissal of concerns held by many constituents and fellow Marylanders?

Christine Pendzich, a 350MoCo steering committee member, says lawmakers should stop promoting outdated natural gas technology and instead focus on lower-cost and healthier renewable solutions.

Nearly 300 protesters gathered outside the Tesla dealership in Owings Mills on Saturday, waving homemade signs as drivers slowly passed by beeping their horns in a show of support.

While immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia have expressed anxiety, fear and uncertainty — regardless of citizenship, white immigrants say their experience has been very different during the current Donald Trump administration.

Gov. Wes Moore says his administration is looking to tap into Maryland’s pool of displaced federal workers to fill open state jobs. He said the state needs to help these workers in the face of the Trump administration's “cruelty.”

Three of Maryland's congressional representatives join the chorus of voices calling for an end to Baltimore Gas and Electric rate hikes.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s proposal to revamp the state’s education-improvement plan was largely rejected by state lawmakers Friday.

Lawmakers say they’re in a holding pattern while the new administration and new Congress make decisions about federal funding. It could mean $200 million to $500 million in additional cuts to the state budget.

The recently circumspect Chesapeake Bay Foundation warned in a statement that Trump’s moves could “spell disaster” and create “an existential crisis” for the decades-old cleanup effort.

President Donald Trump has cut short talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy over a deal for U.S. access to that country’s rare earth minerals after shouting at him in the Oval Office.

The state corrections department recorded a discovery rate for weapons in its facilities at about 13 per 100 prisoners and detainees.

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Office of Personnel Management to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees, including at the Department of Defense.