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State Highway Administration officials are once again asking the Board of Public Works to approve a contract with a San Francisco-based company that will monitor traffic patterns using smartphone application data, brushing aside concerns that were raised about privacy issues.

A state senator said he plans to sponsor legislation banning the intentional release of balloons when the Maryland General Assembly reconvenes in January. Sen. Clarence Lam, D-Howard and Baltimore counties, said he has requested the bill for the coming session. ...

Baltimore officials have decided to use $6 million in park and public facility funds to help pay for the recovery of a ransomware attack that crippled the city for weeks.

A Maryland agency has rejected two proposed solar energy projects in Charles County.

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ANNAPOLIS — A group tasked with revamping how school construction money is doled out is considering a complicated formula that officials hope will target systems with the most need. The draft formula could upend a decades-old system that proportionally doles ...

Despite an end-of-the-year budget surplus, the state’s top tax collector is urging Gov. Larry Hogan and the General Assembly to take a  parsimonious approach to the coming budget year. Maryland raked in nearly $217 million more in revenues in fiscal ...

A subcommittee of the state’s medical cannabis committee delayed a vote Tuesday on a proposal to eliminate a round of testing of marijuana plants before they are sent for processing.

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A Maryland state senator who recently announced he's running for Congress says he didn't send a tweet describing U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar as an "illegal."

Maryland's governor and Baltimore's mayor are looking at ways for the state and the city to work better together to fight rising crime.

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ANNAPOLIS — Musicians and management of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra are being encouraged to take a leap of faith and enter into a temporary agreement that will return orchestral music to Baltimore while resolving contractual and financial concerns. That encouragement ...

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