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Maryland's top fiscal leaders sounded the alarm over state spending through emergency contracts that are exempt from financial oversight.
Gov. Hogan Jr., named five members to serve on the board that will oversee educational programs within the Department of Juvenile Services.
The Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted has submitted a bid to generate up to 760 megawatts of power with a proposed second project.
As students prepare to return to campuses in the fall, Maryland launches a $1 million effort to encourage vaccination among young people.
The field of Democratic challengers vying to unseat Montgomery County State's Attorney John J. McCarthy (D) in 2022 grew again this week.
A Circuit Court judge scheduled a hearing for today on a motion to stop Hogan Jr. (R) from halting federal unemployment benefits.
Journalism — that irreverent, nettlesome profession that delivers the news every day — has an identity crisis.
Only about 2.3 percent of Maryland students had access to full-time, in-person instruction, the report indicates.
Efforts to revive a beleaguered highway project in Montgomery County took a step forward recently.
Police brutality is met with calls for police reform, and then met with "the false narrative that reform is anti-police," the author says.
Del. Cox, an outspoken supporter of Trump, launched his bid for governor July 4, promising “a renewed vision."
Gov. Hogan Jr. (R) announced a four-year, $72-million program that will increase mothers' and children's access to health care.
A second Maryland court has issued an order requiring the Hogan administration to maintain expanded federal unemployment benefits.
A political action committee affiliated with Hogan Jr. (R) launched a series of Facebook ads aimed at three Montgomery County leaders.
The past three elections saw record turnout and ushered in a new wave of reform-minded progressive officials in Baltimore City government.
Talbot County officials want dismissal of a lawsuit seeking removal of the Confederate Talbot Boys monument from county courthouse grounds.
A judge was expected to rule whether to issue a temporary restraining order requiring Maryland to continue administering the benefits.
Sen. Doug J.J. Peters (D-Prince George's), a popular and influential member of the Maryland Senate, will resign at the end of the month.
Defense counsel painted a picture of the gunman who murdered five Capital Gazette staffers "as an obsessed, socially awkward loner."
(Editor's Note: A hearing for a temporary order to maintain expanded unemployment benefits was set on Friday for 2 p.m.)
