Seven Marylanders describe how the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed their lives.

Maryland's Renaissance Festival has banned fursuits, saying members of the furry subculture distract from the festival and don't abide by guidelines for courteous behavior. They say they are being unf...

Many in the queer community have been rallying for the reopening of the shuttered bar Leon’s, fearful of losing a living link to Baltimore’s LGBTQ+ history. Dozens of queer-centered bars and nightclub...

UMD professor Dan Ortiz Leizman is going viral for instruments they create from unlikely materials — the cheap plastic chairs known as Monoblocs.

Half of teen moms don’t graduate high school. Excel Academy is different.

A Timonium man is being held without bail after allegedly threatening and brandishing a semiautomatic gun at the family of Liam O’Donoghue, a 16-year-old Calvert Hall student who lost an arm in a car ...

Liam O’Donoghue lost his arm in a Cockeysville car crash that killed two of his friends. Friends, family, doctors and others are rallying around him.

TikTok spawned an obsession for NeeDoh — brightly colored, textured, squishy toys that parents are desperately seeking for Easter baskets.

The Baltimore couple is unusual in a state where half of families stop taking foster kids within the first year.

Some of the most ardent and dedicated critics of Trump’s second term, across the country and here in Maryland, are 65 and up. They are organizing rallies for Saturday’s No Kings Day, waving signs...

A Baltimore developer was at the center of a charged conflict over the future of a dump in the Remington neighborhood, a controversy that has gotten him thinking bigger about the future of the beloved...

This University of Maryland, Baltimore, program fights the rising social isolation among parents.

As the Trump administration and conservative legislatures around the country attack rights secured for LGBTQIA+ people, Baltimore historians say sharing the stories of queer ancestors has never been m...

Elected officials, economic leaders and other analysts were all caught off guard by a potential five-year development moratorium in the part of Anne Arundel County surrounding BWI, Arundel Mills and j...

While participating in a Johns Hopkins Medicine study on mushroom-derived psilocybin, and the drug’s ability to curb addictive behaviors, the local writing professor discovered he loves to paint cigar...

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises announced strict screen time limits for kindergarten through second grade students.

Laura Lippman, who will appear at The Banner Book Club on Wednesday, discusses “Murder Takes a Vacation” and the importance of Mrs. Blossom.

Baltimore’s complex history, moody weather and idiosyncratic residents have been inspiring writers for hundreds of years.

Ryan Hall, 51, of Woodbine, who was on the force for 27 years, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to two counts of sexual exploitation of children.

COLUMN | Baltimore City is working to fill the potholes, but it feels like they’re literally patching the problem for a temporary fix.

About 50 new law enforcement vehicles had been stored in the garage in Baltimore’s Midtown-Belvedere neighborhood.

Amid a federal immigration crackdown, scared families are avoiding public spaces and staying home. Norma Montesino is one of the few people they’ll let in.

Depending on how you draw its boundaries, downtown Baltimore is either a depressing and increasingly empty collection of tall buildings, or it’s a dynamic and diverse community poised for success.

In September 1885, Winnie Harris wrote her last will and testament in the pages of a leather-bound, gilded Bible. About 140 years later, that Bible, now an official government record, was rediscovered...

In Ocean City, the snow — more of a flaky sludge, really — began Sunday evening, and it didn’t just fall. Rather, it whipped through the air propelled by gusts strong enough to knock over pedestrians.

In his debut book, ‘Black Genius,’ culture critic Tre Johnson examines the everyday brilliance of Black people in America.

COLUMN | Baltimore County public school students have only had two full weeks of school since winter began on Dec. 20. Now it’s the fourth week of February and parents are tired.

A 100-year-old tiger's head disappeared from the Maryland Club in December.

This year, the longest-running Black-owned family newspaper in the U.S. moves its offices and rich archives into West Baltimore’s historic Upton Mansion.

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier is calling an emergency County Council session after reports that ICE will open legal offices in Hunt Valley.

How a photo sent a reporter on a quest to find a complicated love story in Baltimore.

Who sewed the flag that inspired The Star-Spangled Banner? Not Betsy Ross, but Baltimore's own Mary Pickersgill, a feisty widow who stitched the massive flag with a team of women in just a few weeks.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says the White House has singled him out by disinviting him from a pair of events for the nation’s governors in Washington next week.

Owner Volker Stewart informed employees by text message Monday that he was closing effective immediately due to financial problems, according to screenshots shared with The Banner.

How a newer smashburger spot in Baltimore compares to a West Coast staple.

To chair, or not to chair? Baltimore residents turn to children's kitchenettes, tiki torches and good, old lawn chairs to preserve hard-won parking spots as the dig-out from Storm Fern continues.

The Maryland House of Delegates continues to push a new map of congressional districts, even as the state Senate remains a roadblock.

These are the snow days that try parents’ souls. But even when you’re working from home, it’s easy to weave in a few fun hands-on activities that make a snow day feel special and memorable.

How a local social media influencer formed a community to beat the loneliness epidemic.