Politics

Nearly 1.3 million gallons of sewage overflowed in a Columbia townhouse community, the county health department said Friday. The agency has issued a precautionary health alert.

Carla Hayden, the nation’s first female and first Black Librarian of Congress, fired Thursday by Trump, "will remain a Maryland treasure," her fellow Maryland librarians say.

Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the Supreme Court said in a statement Friday.

In an open letter to Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, hundreds of Naval Academy grads cited the decision to remove 381 books from the library catalogue as the latest sign that she isn’t fulfilling her duty to protect a diversity of ideas.

The move infuriated Congressional Democrats who accused Trump of attempting to shut down 'history, progress and learning'.

Only $2 million is slated to be available to community organizations interested in applying for grants this upcoming year.

Firefighters, a widely-respected constituency that Trump has courted, say they are having a tough time lobbying against the administration’s cuts — or even getting administration officials to respond to them.

Maryland lawmakers and AmeriCorps partners are asking the community to step in to save their organizations and programs as the Trump administration moves to significantly cut the federal agency.

The Trump administration is invoking the “state secrets privilege” in an apparent attempt to avoid answering a judge’s questions.

Liberty Reservoir, one of the region’s key water resources, has dropped to its lowest point in nearly two decades.

As the Trump administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion, one of Baltimore's workforce development organizations loses funding.

The biggest political conversations in Howard County often happen at the Wilde Lake Village Starbucks.

It’s become of the mayor’s signature policies, but advocates are pushing him to up the ante.

City officials know of at least 12,000 federal employees who work in Baltimore, but there are untold more who commute to other locations or work from home in the city.

After this year’s Preakness Stakes, the historic Pimlico Race Course will be torn down to make way for a reimagined and rebuilt center for thoroughbred horse racing.

Greenbrier State Park and Sandy Point State Park, both popular destinations during warm seasons because of their water access, will require passes beginning May 24.

Dr. Ben Carson, who served as Donald Trump‘s housing secretary, is trying to turn 33 acres that he and his wife own into a solar farm.

A federal judge expressed sympathy for thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration earlier this year.

Curtis Bay Energy and one top official pleaded guilty in 2023, but a judge cleared the former plant manager on all counts.

The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military while legal challenges proceed.