Maryland’s longtime Senate leader said criticisms leveled at the legislature by Gov. Larry Hogan amount to “campaign rhetoric” and that the legislature is not protecting criminals or engaging in wild, unsupported spending. Hogan, speaking to reporters Monday, criticized the legislature ...

There is likely to be more fallout from reports that members of the University of Maryland Medical System Board benefited financially from their positions on the state panel. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., in comments to reporters late ...

The Maryland Senate moved closer to a floor vote on a bill that would abolish a nearly 50-year old board charged with hearing appeals of decisions to deny or restrict conceal-carry permits. The Senate Executive Nominations Committee voted 10-5 Monday ...

Maryland’s budget secretary is warning that a proposed $4 billion plan to expand education funding will lead to budget deficits that dwarf the general fund budget and necessitate massive tax increases. David Brinkley, in a letter to House Speaker Michael ...

Maryland’s craft brewing industry is moving closer to changes that brewers have sought for three years. The Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee voted unanimously Friday afternoon to make changes to a 25-year old law that craft brewers complained ...

A bill legalizing medically assisted suicides could move closer to a vote in the Senate starting next week but the chairman of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hinted that it may look different than a bill passed Thursday in the ...

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. fired back at education advocates who he said are trying to intimidate the General Assembly when it comes to funding education. “These foolish litigators can proceed with what they want to do but ...

A state fiscal panel approved reductions in projections of state revenue totaling nearly $270 million through the end of the coming fiscal year. The reductions — nearly $138 million in the current fiscal year and $131.2 million in fiscal 2020 ...

Maryland’s two-term Republican governor continues to enjoy sky-high job approval numbers. Statewide, 78 percent of Marylanders approve of the job Gov. Larry Hogan is doing, according to a poll released Tuesday morning by Annapolis-based Gonzales Research and Media Services. The ...

ANNAPOLIS — After a round of tough questioning, acting Department of Natural Resources Secretary Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio appears headed for confirmation. The Senate Executive Nominations Committee voted nearly unanimously Monday to recommend confirmation of the former Eastern Shore delegate, who more ...