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Between the continuing chaos in Minneapolis and ICE’s apparent plan to turn a Hagerstown warehouse into a detention center, they had plenty to protest today.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, chaired by David D. Smith, made headlines earlier this month when the media conglomerate forbid the television stations it owns across the country from airing Jimmy Kimmel’s ...

Telling the story of how a furious storm last week filled his North Baltimore dry cleaning business with brown floodwaters – soaking equipment, clothing, computers and pretty much everything – ...

Community leaders howled in 2022 when they discovered a Dollar General store was coming into the heart of Waverly, the north Baltimore neighborhood they’d been working hard to uplift by encouraging ...

When it opens to traffic tomorrow, the $25 million Harford Road Bridge will feature many improvements over its century-old predecessor. Bike advocates successfully fought for dedicated bike lanes in ...

Rising from the Council to a seat on the Board of Estimates yields a flood of campaign cash. What went to whom in 2025, from Alex Smith’s Atlas Restaurant Group to Johns Hopkins University.

Former members have also popped up, wagging a finger at their successors for what they call “a sharp departure from the ethical standards they observed while serving on the council.” ...

On Saturday, the OIG was denied access to city records. Today the inspector general fired back, saying, “We basically cannot do our job.” UPDATED with mayor’s office reply.

If the salary increases recommended by the county’s Personnel and Salary Advisory Board are adopted, the annual pension of the sponsor of Bill 40-24, Councilman Wade Kach, would jump from $41,400 to ...