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A rehabilitation project on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was completed this week, more than a year ahead of schedule, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced.

President Donald Trump aims to shovel $2.2 trillion into the U.S. economy over the next few weeks to try to cushion its free fall. But that means putting his fate in the hands of banks, profit-minded businesses and government bureaucrats he has frequently derided, along with a man who has emerged as arguably the biggest power broker to business in Washington: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

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More than 84,230 Marylanders filed for unemployment benefits in the last week, a continuing sign of the shock effect a pandemic is having on the local and national economy.

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Baltimore faces a deficit of $42.3 million in the current year’s budget stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak, which has rendered the preliminary budget proposal for the coming year irrelevant. Now the city is scrambling to figure out how to close ...

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Howard County Executive Calvin Ball’s administration is proposing a capital improvement plan that tops $250 million and includes $20.2 million to protect Ellicott City from future flooding. County officials in a call with reporters Tuesday acknowledged that an unsettled municipal ...

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Members of the state Board of Public Works Wednesday raised questions about how Maryland will successfully conduct two upcoming elections. The State Board of Elections is expected to meet Thursday and finalize a plan for the primary election that was ...

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The bipartisan partnership that propelled a $2.2 trillion economic rescue package through Congress just days ago is already showing signs of strain, raising questions about how quickly calls for massive followup legislation may bear fruit.

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Maryland's top legislative leaders said Tuesday that they were not ready to agree to a recommendation by the state elections board to have all ballots for the June 2 primary cast by mail, a measure that was suggested to protect poll workers from the coronavirus.

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Maryland lawmakers have joined politicians nationwide in asking for the release of data on coronavirus cases by race in order to address potential disparities in the response to the pandemic.

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But while Trump sided with the White House doctors over its economists, at least for now, the decision shed light on a West Wing beset with divisions and a commander in chief torn between an instinct to embrace the image of a wartime president fighting an invisible enemy and the desire to protect the nation’s bottom line as he barrels into a bruising reelection fight.

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