President Donald Trump joined state and local leaders Tuesday to welcome a huge new shipyard that will bring billions of dollars of investment and thousands of jobs to Sparrows Point in Baltimore Coun...

Gov. Wes Moore planned to be on hand for Tuesday's announcement of a massive economic development project at Sparrows Point, but said he was uninvited by the White House after President Donald Trump s...

A proposed amendment to the Maryland Constitution that would change the way Maryland draws congressional districts faces stiff voter opposition, a new poll shows. It's the latest sign of trouble for t...

After a string of suicide deaths at Fort Meade this summer, Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-3rd) is pushing for language in the must-pass defense policy bill to require that the Pentagon collect data on civilia...

President Donald Trump wants to curtail mail ballots, but with Republicans falling behind in the polls, the president is now urging his supporters to vote in the midterm elections any way they can, in...

Gov. Wes Moore (D) and his Republican challenger Dan Cox each presented their vision of a state under their leadership in an hour-long debate Tuesday that quickly showcased the expected lines of attac...

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...

The Maryland Supreme Court ordered the immediate removal Monday of Anne Arundel County Orphans' Court Chief Judge Vickie Gipson for what it called "egregious ... misconduct" in office, just months aft...

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 committ...

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 agreem...

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 g...

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 prog...

There are four candidates on the ballot for governor this fall but only two will be on stage for Tuesday's debate. To Andy Ellis and Cathy White, the Green and Working Class Party nominees, that doesn...

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 cu...

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 fo...

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, a...

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 ...

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 see...

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 ...

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 electio...

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 law...

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.

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 B...

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 s...

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...

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...

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 Mo...

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

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 Refl...

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...

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 ...

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 securi...

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 repo...

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 of...

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...

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 Maryla...

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 ed...

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 ra...

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 ...

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.

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 politi...

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 B...

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...

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 month for dra...

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.

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, cl...

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...

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 th...

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,...

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 ...