Politics

Though the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project remains in its early stages, the 70-mile power line has been a lightning rod for months.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, D.C.

City Hall and other city-owned buildings reopened on Monday after closing early on Friday to undergo mitigation for Legionella bacteria.

Maryland lawmakers joined a chorus of mourners in remembering the life of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States and 2002 Nobel Prize winner, who died on Sunday at 100.

The U.S. and the world continue to benefit from Jimmy Carter’s accomplishments as president and the humanitarian work he pursued after leaving office, University of Maryland Law professor Larry S. Gibson says.

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Jimmy Carter’s policies and priorities as president set revitalization in motion in Baltimore and other cities that needed it, Abell Foundation President Robert Embry Jr. says.

White House staffers and others who interacted with President Jimmy Carter had the opportunity to gain valuable lessons in leadership and diplomacy, says University of Baltimore president and former Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke. Schmoke worked on the White House domestic staff in the Carter administration.

The Naval Academy has renamed a classroom building for the 39th president, who recently entered home hospice care. But why did it take so long to honor the only graduate to ever become president?

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, has died. He was 100 years old.

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President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue.

Two more government buildings closed early on Friday after showing elevated levels of Legionella bacteria in the water system, the mayor’s office announced.

Baltimore City embraces a Plan B for rats, so to speak.

A lawsuit filed this month in Baltimore Circuit Court says developer Ron Lipscomb lured Chinese investors seeking U.S. citizenship for a hotel project in East Baltimore that had wildly inflated construction costs.

What seemed to be the certain destruction of Camp Small has instead brought unexpected opportunity.

Former colleagues described Gilliss as intelligent, professional and "just a lovable guy."

Weeks after voters rejected Gov. Wes Moore’s pick for the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, he reappointed her. It’s a rare move not seen in Maryland for a generation, and comes as a judiciary study has recommended ending contested election of judges.

Filed this past July, the lawsuit argues that the tax sale system in Baltimore is unconstitutional.

More than a dozen laws take effect in January in Maryland, from health insurance coverage changes to increased fines for speeding in work zones.