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] ...

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.

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.

Now we know why absorbing city sanitation workers’ Local 44 and other Council 67 units was so important to AFSCME leadership.

In 47 years of working in and writing about local government in Maryland, I’ve never seen a more brazen assault on fundamental principles of transparency and accountability than the efforts by the ...

Baltimore City is destroying homeless encampments without ending the homelessness of their residents. These actions are inhumane and ineffective. Homelessness can only be ended through the provision ...

Brew: Why are these buses so crowded and late and the # of them assigned to the 13 route apparently quite inadequate? Shepard: Every metro transit system experiences occasional overcrowding and/or ...