By a close margin, after passionate testimony, the City Council last night advanced sweeping changes supporters said would help Baltimore grow and opponents said would drive Black residents out.

Calvin Young, point man for the unpopular Sisson Street relocation plan, will “shift” from mayor’s chief of staff to an interim deputy mayor.

Councilman Ryan Dorsey and Mayor Brandon Scott are instituting a sweeping overhaul of Baltimore zoning rules that will hurt residents of this “city of neighborhoods.” [OP-ED] ...

Shen reported for The Baltimore Evening Sun in the late 1980s and then for 17 years was a staff writer for The Washington Post. An award-winning writer on The Post’s Metro staff, she covered Maryland ...

The inspector general finds eye-popping new costs in the overhaul of the city’s website that, strangely, has it running on a soon-to-expire content management system.

A measure ending the requirement for apartment projects to include parking and another allowing rowhouses to be built closer to the property line are coming before the Council for a vote Monday.

It takes real effort to penetrate the mysteries of Baltimore City government, where millions of dollars in public spending are approved in the blink of an eye and dollars disappear into the maw of ...

Baltimore Brew broke the key aspects of a controversy that dogged Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. ahead of his 2024 election to a Maryland Congressional seat. County pension officials ...

A measure ending the requirement for apartment projects to include parking and another allowing rowhouses to be built closer to the property line are coming before the Council for a vote Monday.

The case was filed back in April 2024 in the Baltimore County Circuit under the name “Baltimore County, Maryland v. Employee A,” and the court file was immediately sealed by Judge Keith R. Truffer at ...

Coverage of Baltimore and the region for The Brew by Dan Rodricks. After writing an award-winning column for the Baltimore Sun for 46 years, Rodricks resigned in January 2025, a year after the Sun's ...

Grassroots groups had pushed for a task force to craft a fair formula for payments. But the mayor cut his own deal, and Baltimore’s spending board signed off on it today.