The results are part of a new poll released Tuesday by the Institute of Politics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. That poll finds that Moore would pick up 51% of the vote while another 24% said they favor Republican Dan Cox.

Any number of problems -- an unexpected expense, loss of transportation, a family fight -- can tip a young person over into homelessness, write Larry Cohen and Tom Coale, but minimal assistance they go into a shelter can help them avoid homelessness.

The 16-mile, 21-stop Purple Line continues moving closer to becoming a fully operational light rail line by the end of 2027, but state transportation officials told a Montgomery County Council committee that the actual opening date remains “dynamic.”

The Sphere concert and entertainment venue planned for National Harbor is another step closer to reality after an vote Monday by the Prince George’s County Council, but unions looking to secure agreements on construction of the project have been left out.

Maryland regulators are concerned about a rate-setting practice that let electric utilities project future spending and ask that customers' rates be set accordingly. But while they said the pilot program had failed, they aren’t ready to abandon it altogether.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it will disburse $37 million to localities to aid Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction and clean-up efforts, with another $53 million in matching funds for 83 projects across the watershed, 32 of them in Maryland.

There are four candidates on the ballot for governor this fall. There will be two on stage Tuesday for the only scheduled debate of the campaign. To Andy Ellis and Cathy White, that doesn’t seem right. Ellis, the Green Party nominee, and White, the nominee of the Working Class Party, have continued, without success, to […]

An Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission vote in November on whether menhaden are overharvested in the Chesapeake Bay will be closely watched by workers who pursue the fish now, and worry the cuts could cost them their jobs.

A month from Election Day, President Donald Trump’s long-running pressure campaign over elections is approaching a decisive moment as he seeks to bend the U.S. election system to his will, and states are fighting back or prepping their responses.

As agencies walk back the Trump administration’s controversial "loyalty" essay question from federal job postings, the Office of Personnel Management is telling them to replace it with a new prompt, asking about carrying out a policy the applicant disagreed with.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to kick off a month-long blitz of campaign stops in advance of the midterm elections with a Thursday rally in deep-red Oklahoma before heading to other states with strong Republican leanings.

OK, "Eric's ID Law" is popular, but you've arrived when Faith Evans and P-Funk's George Clinton are in your corner, Gov. Wes Moore names enough judges to form a softball team and Montgomery County seeks police advisory panel members, in political notes.

State officials hailed the news that the troubled Curtis Bay Energy facility will stop burning medical waste at its South Baltimore site in order to settle a Maryland Department of the Environment lawsuit charging the company with repeated air pollution violations.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-8th) is calling for a federal investigation of taxpayer-funded television spots that heavily promote President Donald Trump, which are airing just weeks before the midterm elections.

Jobs across the United States rose by 29,000 in September, a disappointing result as recent growth was also revised down in Friday’s monthly jobs report, the last one before midterm elections. September growth was a large dip from a strong August number that was revised down from 162,000 to 133,000 in the new report. July […]

A bipartisan group of Maryland legislators is pushing for fishery managers to institute further restrictions on the harvest of Atlantic menhaden, a small fish that sits at the base of the Chesapeake Bay food chain.

Gov. Wes Moore continued a statewide push against administrative barriers to new housing development Thursday, signing executive orders to identify administrative bottlenecks that delay project permit approvals and to speed construction of those units.

While the Public Service Commission denied half of Pepco’s recent rate increase, it is sending the wrong message by still granting the utility a $50.9 million rate increase at a time when people are struggling just to get by, writes the Rev. Katherine Manhardt.

It took more than a decade to get this far, but lawmakers and advocates who gathered Thursday at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center to celebrate the new youth sentencing act were reminded that they are not finished yet.

Leaders throughout the region overseen by power grid operator PJM Interconnection have long called for states to have a greater voice in grid decision-making, but governance reforms advanced this week by PJM left advocates feeling disappointed.

The Trump administration wasted no time challenging Maryland's new law that prohibits masks on police, including immigration officers, suing the state the same day the law took effect. It also sued Montgomery and Prince George's counties over similar laws.

A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors cannot, for a second time, charge former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, a Montgomery County resident, with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The more than 370 bills that became law Thursday are the usual grab bag of serious and silly, of technical tweaks, of answers to sweeping national issues and personal responses to situations that took young lives in Maryland. Many were years in the making.

A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting President Donald Trump's effort to keep election security a top issue before the November elections.

Treatments for cancer, diabetes and other conditions could be disrupted for up to 4,500 Maryland residents who will no longer qualify for Medicaid under a federal rule that takes effect Thursday that will disqualify people for Medicaid based on immigration status.

A fifth measles-related death was reported in Pennsylvania, which remains one of the nation's hot spots for outbreaks of the virus with 943 cases reported across the state this year. Maryland has reported 51 confirmed case so far this year, but not deaths.

Under a law that takes effect Thursday, Marylanders who register their cars in other states will have 60 days to register them in Maryland or face fines and other possible penalties, although state officials said they hope drivers will take advantage of the grace period.

Constellation, the owner of Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant, said Wednesday it plans to move forward with massive upgrades at the facility after signing a 20-year power purchase deal with data center operator Amazon.

They acknowledged the looming budget shortfall, and said there have been challenges implementing the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, but the main theme of a meeting Tuesday on the state's sweeping education reform plan was plain: Don't cut it.

Maryland is one of 10 states where high housing costs contribute the most to the state’s poverty level, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, that attributes as much as 21% of Maryland's poverty to ita above-average housing costs.

he U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request that it be allowed to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.

Maryland school officials Tuesday celebrated a sharp drop chronic absenteeism since the pandemic, despite uneven results across school districts and not reaching their goal of cutting post-pandemic rates in half.

The U.S. Department of Education’s suspension of a comprehensive monitoring process  puts billions of K-12 dollars at heightened risk of undetected waste, fraud and abuse, says a new audit, that also raised concerns about the reliability of federal absenteeism data.

Challenges for Maryland's electricity markets are many -- rising prices, surging demand, stalled projects -- but the answer is readily available in the form of grid-connected battery storage, writes Bruce Daggy, who said it works in other states and can work here.

Both Maryland senators voted against a bill Monday to overhaul the college sports landscape in the face of student payments and transfers. The bipartisan bill passed the Senate easily; critics said it does not do enough to protect student athletes' labor rights.

Some money may be coming your way from your electric company -- one day -- Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater wants to hear from you and Tom Coale and Scott Peterson land new gigs, in political notes.

Del. Carolyn J.B. Howard, a longtime Prince George's County delegate, died Sept. 19 at age 87. Her former colleagues remembered Howard as an even-keeled lawmaker and a thoughtful mentor.

A nearly yearlong battle over a lucrative lottery contract has landed the state's gaming agency in hot water with the Maryland Board of Contract Appeals, which sanctioned the agency last week for dragging its feet on demands to produce documents.

The Trump administration has again infuriated lawmakers from both parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel $810 million in funding previously approved by Congress for refugee assistance, climate change and minority business development.

Democratic and Republican governors vowed to more aggressively push back on federal overreach, regardless of which party runs Washington, after the National Governors Association to say governors must defend state sovereignty against federal incursion.

Crews begin inspecting the 10 miles of Ocean City beach Monday for storm damage, including erosion, after a nor'easter that lashed the coast over the weekend, causing flooded streets and leading to the cancellation of a weekend music festival.

Since 2004, Maryland's “flush tax” has raised $2.3 billion for wastewater treatment plant upgrades that have kept hundreds of millions of pounds of nutrients out of the Bay. It could decrease in 2030, but advocates say sewage treatment plants still need the help.

Maryland’s energy companies are getting a $250 million sales tax refund after a Supreme Court of Maryland ruling in their favor, the state comptroller said, urging them to give the “windfall” to their customers.

The escalating trade war between the United States and Canada also means an escalating trade war with one of Maryland’s biggest trading partners, with the state sending $2.2 billion in goods north in 2025 and importing $2.8 billion that year.

With limited time to act and no guarantee of success, Democrats are eyeing government spending negotiations as their best shot at still getting a 2027 federal pay raise across the finish line after the Trump administration denied raises to most civilian federal workers.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is poised to spend nearly $2 billion to help fund 31 grid improvement projects in 26 states that aim to wring more capacity out of existing power lines to meet surging electricity demand, largely from AI data centers,

Despite what critics say, the Prescription Drug Affordability Board has not only made Maryland a leader in the fight for affordable drugs, writes Vincent DeMarco, it will save millions for state and local governments -- and could save Marylanders tens of millions.

Government auditors said the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in numerous U.S. communities.

Marylanders who buy individual healthcare plans on the state's insurance marketplace will see a second year of double-digit increases to their premiums, after state insurance officials approved a 14.6% average premium rate increase across plans in 2027.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger last week unveiled a package aimed at reining in the data center industry in the commonwealth, calling for tighter environmental regulations and for the industry to pick up more of the energy costs, among other proposals.