Politics

Montgomery County lawmakers want to establish a pilot program that would automatically ticket drivers if their vehicles are making excessive noise via unlawfully modified exhaust systems.

The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War.

The tourism group Visit Harford is suing Harford County, alleging it hasn’t been paid for promoting tourism in the county.

Since winning a bid to redevelop West Baltimore's Poppleton neighborhood almost 20 years ago, La Cité Development has built a fraction of what it planned, leaving several blocks of vacant land in one of Baltimore’s oldest Black neighborhoods. The city grew so frustrated with inaction that last month it canceled La Cité’s exclusive development deal.

Emails between developer La Cité and Baltimore officials reveal that unpaid water bills inflamed an already strained relationship — and contributed to the city’s decision to end La Cité's future development rights in Poppleton.

Dr. Emenuga is the subject of a criminal investigation that focuses, at least in part, on work she did at a health care provider while also serving as Baltimore’s health commissioner.

The Vote4More! campaign failed to get enough valid signatures on petitions to get the question of a four-seat expansion on the November ballot, but the question of whether to expand by two more will be.

The commercial boom sparked by legalization didn’t make Maryland’s illegal cannabis market disappear. It created a government-regulated competitor.

Before her promotion to commissioner, Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga worked as the health department’s Youth Wellness and Community Health Division, where she oversaw clinical services in schools.

The anti-Harborplace redevelopment coalition, organized by attorney Thiru Vignarajah, faced a 4:30 deadline Monday to submit 10,000 signatures to Baltimore elections officials.

The Howard County Council voted Monday to approve a resolution needed to get a proposed inspector general office on November’s ballot.

The federally subsidized apartment complex in Southwest Baltimore County has been a prolific source of complaints from residents — for years, if not decades.

They’re now applying the infectious, youthful energy they captured working on the Kamala Harris campaign throughout Maryland — often in the political sphere.

Democratic leaders are hoping that Kamala Harris' shine rubs off on their candidates down the ballot.

Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance’s comments about women who don’t have children insults their right to make choices about their own lives.

A clash between Anne Arundel County Orphans Court judges and the conviction of a register of wills on a misconduct charge underscore the need to reform the system that presides over the administration of estates.

Maryland Legal Aid, the state’s largest provider of free civil legal services, alleges that the state is relying on a broken automated system and routinely suspending driver’s licenses for unpaid child support without due process and in cases in which it is not permitted under the law.

Maryland’s budget was prepared to give scholarships to 40,000 kids to help their families afford child care. Less than a month into the fiscal year, it’s already blown past that number.

Few things separate Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen. Their offices often put out joint news releases touting their accomplishments together. Not much, it seems, has separated the senior senator from his younger colleague. Except Benjamin Netanyahu.

At one facility, on Bowley’s Lane, workers had to ask a supervisor for toilet paper every time they wished to use the bathroom — the supervisor kept it locked in a supply closet.