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Regulators are seeking public input about a proposed civil penalty against Fort Smith, Arkansas-based ABF Freight System Inc. for alleged Clean Water Act violations spanning five years.
March 22, 2023
Saul Passe runs the county’s ReTree program, which is planting saplings in yards in 32 lower-income neighborhoods with a dearth of trees.
For this week's Maryland Curiosity Bureau, Aaron Henkin takes some time this week to remember Theo Hill.
March 20, 2023
Baltimore County is searching for abandoned homes, but finding them may be more complicated than you would think.
March 15, 2023
It’s down in a gully near Bunker Hill Road in Hereford. Peer through the trees and you’ll see it, a vintage Baltimore streetcar, forgotten and rusting away in the forest.
March 13, 2023
Del. Jen Terrasa, a Howard County Democrat, is proposing legislation that would require new and substantially renovated townhouses and apartment buildings to have charging spaces.
March 9, 2023
After lengthy debate Tuesday, the Maryland Senate advanced a bill giving the Maryland Attorney General’s Office the power to do prosecutions of police-involved killings.
March 8, 2023
The bill regulating the licensing and sale of recreational marijuana jumped a major hurdle Wednesday by passing an initial vote in the House of Delegates.
After eight years with a Republican governor who frequently vetoed Democratic majority-led legislation in the Maryland General Assembly, some lawmakers are bullish that legislation to increase participation among minority and women-owned businesses with state contracts may become law.
March 6, 2023
Years before Rachel Hilson starred in hit television dramas like NBC’s "This is Us," she was a young artist who trained at Baltimore School for the Arts, a nationally recognized public arts high school whose alums include artists like Tupac Shakur, Jada Pinkett Smith and fashion designer Christian Siriano.
March 2, 2023
Anyone with access to the internet will now be able to find any crime reported to the Baltimore City Police Department after the release of the city’s Public Safety Accountability Dashboard.
March 1, 2023
Ask MTA administrators and transit activists, and you’ll get the same answer: No idea. It’s just been that way forever.
February 27, 2023
In the past seven years, about 20,000 students have received scholarships to state-approved private and parochial schools that agree not to discriminate against students based on race, color, national origin or sexual orientation.
February 23, 2023
WYPR’s Aaron Henkin and Baltimore Banner reporter Hallie Miller ride along with Charlie this episode and try to figure out what’s gone wrong, and why.
February 21, 2023
Nearly all state’s attorneys in Maryland are opposed to the measure, as are various law enforcement agencies.
February 15, 2023