Baltimore County isn’t the region’s economic engine anymore. One reason why is the grip held over local zoning decisions by individual members of the county council. [OP-ED] ...

Irked by an alleged threat at a City Council hearing and no word yet on a promised pay raise, sanitation employees plan to vent their frustration at an upcoming union meeting.

What happened in the community garden recently to Carrollton Ridge’s Cyndi Tensley, the upbeat leader of trash clean-ups, vigils for homicide victims and more.

Until it got a powerful new ally in Annapolis, a decade-long effort to end state support for trash-burning facilities, like South Baltimore’s BRESCO plant, always flamed out.

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 ...

The council approved the overall bill, codifying the county’s Urban Rural Demarcation Line, that will go before voters as a charter amendment in 2026.

Homeowners in this West Baltimore community ask the court to void La Cité’s land use agreement with the city. The company and city say the lawsuit should be thrown out.

Established 60 years ago by a feisty Jesuit priest, the St. Francis Neighborhood Center still serves the community – and this month they’re expanding.

Councilman David Marks has taken the lead in crafting zoning bills that assert his power over his eastside district.

Baltimore alleges that the developer’s two apartment buildings together owe nearly $800,000 in overdue water bills, having stopped paying them in 2022.

The city violated the Maryland Public Information Act, the attorney for Baltimore Brew and the Baltimore Sun argues before the Appellate Court of Maryland ...

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 ...