State government

Montgomery County’s Inspector General is the only office of its kind in Maryland that acts as a watchdog for its county school system. That could soon change.

Anne Arundel County will contribute $10.6 million toward project planning and construction to widen I-97 between Route 32 in Millersville and U.S. 50 in Annapolis.

Gov. Wes Moore met this year with Japan’s ambassador to the U.S. It marked a collaboration between Moore and Rubenstein and a continuation of Moore’s penchant for using sports as a connector.

Virtually all of the Chesapeake Bay’s shoreline is privately owned, which means taxpayer-funded waterfront improvements go to properties with limited public access.

Towson University students moved their “No Kings” rally off campus after school officials told them speakers’ names would be run through federal government databases and vetted for security reasons.

The Maryland Transit Administration is offering free rides on MARC trains and commuter buses during the federal government shutdown.

Maryland Del. Charles Otto, who represented the Eastern Shore in Annapolis for nearly 15 years, has died, officials announced Friday.

Immigration and crime were President Donald Trump’s strongest issues, while cost of living, tariffs and public health received the worst marks.

We have numbers for the governor matchup between Wes Moore and Larry Hogan everyone keeps speculating about.

The Banner’s third annual thought leadership conference, taking place at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, tackles how Maryland can respond to threats from federal spending cuts, the future of college research and the impact of the arts.

The poll contacted 928 registered Maryland voters between Oct. 7-10. It has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.

Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway launched a challenge to longtime U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume.

While a majority of Marylanders approve of the job Gov. Wes Moore is doing, they struggle to identify his achievements and offer only soft support, according to a new statewide poll from The Banner.

Allison Green, chief of the Maryland attorney general’s office’s Independent Investigations Division, and her deputy, Renee Joy, have resigned, office spokesperson Jennifer Donelan said in a statement. Both will leave the office after this week.

“The assault that we’ve now had on the state of Maryland has been aggressive, has been intentional, it’s been petty, it’s been partisan and it’s been punishing,” Gov. Wes Moore said during a conversation with David Rubenstein at Impact Maryland.

An initiative dubbed “Contest Every Seat” aims to fill ballots across the state with Democratic candidates for the House of Delegates, state Senate, county councils and county commissions.

Adam Hyman, a family law attorney in Bel Air, submitted a brief that he was unaware contained citations that artificial intelligence made up.

What Moore said feels like almost as dangerous a fantasy — that the military might save the republic from becoming a military dictatorship by disobeying a presidential order.

As state leaders debate whether to redraw the electoral map, Jake Day waits.

Weissmann was chief of staff for two Democratic Senate presidents: current President Bill Ferguson and the late, longtime President Thomas V. Mike Miller, from Prince George’s County.