State government

When Maryland lawmakers return to Annapolis to work on the next state budget, they’ll have to close a budget hole of more than $1 billion — a significantly tougher challenge than they’d anticipated.

Gov. Wes Moore’s high-profile attempt to push Maryland into the national fray of redistricting got off to a low-profile start on Tuesday.

Budget bill to reopen the federal government criticized as ‘woefully insufficient’ by Maryland House Democrats.

Party leaders, rank and file want an opportunity to fight back against President Donald Trump

Marylanders who have been waiting for food assistance amid the government shutdown and legal fights will start to see state-funded benefits in their accounts starting Tuesday.

The State of Maryland and Prince George’s County are suing President Donald Trump for interfering in the long-planned relocation of the FBI to Greenbelt.

After a month of being asked, Gov. Wes Moore’s office provided crime statistics for what state police got up to in September.

A press conference is scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Prince George’s County. It will include the attorney general, the governor, the county executive and state and federal lawmakers.

For hundreds of skinny, 220-foot rods to form the foundation of a new Francis Scott Key Bridge, contractors are deploying a huge hydraulic hammer that attaches to a crane barge.

After nearly 40 years of pushing for progressive change on environmental and educational policy, Maryland Energy Administration leader Paul Pinsky is retiring from public service.

“My commitment has been clear from day one — we will explore every avenue possible to make sure Maryland has fair and representative maps,” Moore said in a statement Tuesday.

As Maryland lawmakers push for additional in-state power sources, Constellation Energy is providing them a range of options. Among them: generating natural gas, creating battery storage and more.

More than 680,000 Marylanders — nearly 40% of them children — receive SNAP benefits each month to help keep food on the table. The average benefit is $180.

According to the state senator, the consultant she’s been charged with extorting was a “disgruntled woman” whom she fired from her first campaign in 2018 “for cause.” Attar does not state why.

Maryland families who depend on SNAP benefits are unsure what November will bring as they potentially face a month without food aid.

Analyzing blackmail allegations against Maryland state Sen. Dalya Attar.

The waitlist has grown to more than 2,700 Maryland kids since May.

Attar, a Democrat, represents Northwest Baltimore in the Maryland Senate.

In a 34-page opinion issued on Wednesday, Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff wrote that the issues in the appeal normally wouldn’t warrant issuing a decision that sets legal precedent.

Maryland state lawmakers pressed Gov. Wes Moore and his administration to keep food benefits intact during the federal government shutdown — even if that means tapping the state’s Rainy Day Fund.