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After months of deferring to local health officials for reopening decisions, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) issued an emergency order Monday, overturning Montgomery County’s…
Local election officials are scrambling to fill more than 13,000 election judge jobs that remain vacant after Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) ordered…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) slammed the Maryland State Board of Elections in a letter Monday, demanding to know why voters haven’t been…
Arlene Montemarano and her husband were neighbors before they were married. Rather than sell off their extra house when they moved in together, they…
Baltimore City Councilman Robert Stokes Sr. may have thought he had a clear path to a second term after narrowly winning the Democratic primary…
Fran Phillips, state government’s top public health officer, who has helped lead Maryland’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Wednesday that she is retiring….
Maryland schools with the poorest students and the highest number of minority students have fewer educators than other schools and a disproportionate number of…
Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) wants Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan (R) to extend the state’s moratorium on evictions until next January, giving lawmakers…
A husband and wife, who are volunteer leaders for the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club, both received national volunteering awards from the national…
With an “onslaught” of eviction filings expected in the coming months, a group of Maryland lawmakers released recommendations Monday on how to avert a…