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A coalition of mostly progressive groups are asking leading candidates to become the next speaker of the House of Delegates to commit to a number of changes in how the chamber functions. The coalition, led by the ACLU of Maryland, ...

Maryland lawmakers will return to Annapolis on May 1 for a brief special session to elect a new House speaker. Gov. Larry Hogan issued a proclamation Thursday calling lawmakers back to the State House. “It is my solemn duty to call ...

ANNAPOLIS — Members of the University of Maryland Medical System board will now be subject to tougher ethics and disclosure requirements under a bill that was signed into law Thursday. The law, which takes effect immediately, gives Gov. Larry Hogan ...

The head of the Maryland Transportation Authority has abruptly resigned and been replaced. Executive Director Kevin Reigrut resigned effective Monday as the authority’s board was scheduled to meet in an emergency session. Cheryl Sparks, a spokeswoman for the agency that ...

A leading Annapolis lobbyist has won the first round in a bitter legal battle with his former firm, which had sought to enforce a noncompete agreement after he departed. An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge ruled that an agreement barring ...

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Federal prosecutors Tuesday announced the indictment of 20 people on racketeering and other charges involving inmates and state corrections employees at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup. Six state corrections employees, seven inmates and seven others are charged as part ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s longest-serving Speaker of the House of Delegates returned Monday to the State House one last time. Hundreds of current and former elected officials, aides and citizens lined the front walk of the state capitol building and filled the ...

The chairman of a Senate committee is the target of post-General Assembly session criticism by gun control advocates angry with him after a priority bill died on the last day of legislative business. Sen. Robert “Bobby” Zirkin, D-Baltimore County and ...

Baltimore’s acting mayor is ordering an audit of a city contract with a charitable organization that had purchased $80,000 of children’s books written by Mayor Catherine Pugh. Ex officio Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced Thursday that he directed the city Department ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s 439th session of the General Assembly may go down as the session that set the tone for the remainder of the term. A more progressive legislature, one where nearly one-third of the members are new, passed bills ...