Transportation advocates are calling for major changes to the way the Maryland Transit Administration is governed, saying increased local oversight will lead to more investment and big projects.

The Baltimore City Council approved two dozen bills on an accelerated schedule Monday, racing to close out various legislative priorities before a new administration is sworn in.

As the nation’s public health crisis rages on, the Baltimore region’s buses remain busy transporting essential workers and residents who depend on it each day.

Baltimore-area leaders celebrated the Health Services Cost Review Commission’s decision to award $45 million in grant funding to hospitals in the Greater Baltimore Region Tuesday morning.

Two members of the Senate Finance Committee who sit on opposites side of the aisle said Labor Secretary Tiffany Robinson has done a fairly good job of overseeing the department’s processing of the unprecedented number of unemployment claims even though thousands of residents are still waiting months for their first check.

Reimposed restrictions are coming to bars, restaurants, churches, shops and other retail businesses as the coronavirus surges across the state of Maryland

In 2002, the late Wayne K. Curry, the first Black Prince George’s County executive, dipped into his campaign treasury to hire a well-known national election lawyer to sue the state of Maryland over its legislative redistricting plan.

Lawmaking during a pandemic is a challenge.

Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) on Monday urged President Trump to accept defeat in the 2020 election and criticized the federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic that’s once again raging across the country and in Maryland ― and cast himself as a common sense White House candidate for 2024 in the mold of President Reagan.

Baltimore Mayor-elect Brandon Scott raised nearly $100,000 during the final days of a race he was strongly favored to win, a campaign finance report filed Tuesday shows.

Leaders in Montgomery County, Maryland, were critical of Gov. Larry Hogan’s announcement on new efforts to control the COVID-19 surge in the state, noting additional measures should be taken to prevent the spread of the virus.

Gov. Larry Hogan announced all hospital visitations are prohibited until further notice as Maryland coronavirus hospitalizations Tuesday jumped past 1,000 for the first time since early June.

The leader of one of Maryland’s key small business advocacy groups criticized a Tuesday decision by Gov. Larry Hogan to impose new restrictions on bars and restaurants and small businesses in response to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the state.

Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) issued a series of COVID-19 restrictions Tuesday afternoon, following the state’s quick entry into the pandemic’s second surge.

Maryland Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) has been honing the elevator speech he will use in his 2022 campaign for governor — and he is eager for people to hear it.