Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has tested positive for COVID-19, his office announced Monday afternoon. “Mayor Scott tested positive for COVID-19 late this morning, and is currently self-isolating at his home in Northeast Baltimore. The mayor is asymptomatic and currently feels ...

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Insurance companies are expecting a sicker population in the coming year as an ancillary effect of the pandemic.  State insurance regulators told the Senate Finance Committee that fewer preventive medical visits because of COVID-19 will likely result in increased medical ...

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A legislative panel Tuesday approved emergency regulations requiring mask use in all Maryland public schools.

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Maryland colleges and universities will be reopening their campuses to students, faculty and staff while implementing plans to guard against COVID-19.

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Several of the state’s biggest jurisdictions reinstated mask mandates today, hoping to curb the rapidly increasing spread of the Delta variant, a more transmissible strain of the coronavirus that is causing increases in cases in Maryland and nationwide.  Baltimore city ...

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ANNAPOLIS — State employees at congregate facilities will be required to prove they have been vaccinated or be subjected to more stringent coronavirus control measures. The new policies announced by Gov. Larry Hogan come as some large jurisdictions in the ...

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Colleges and universities in Maryland, many of which are returning to fully or mostly in-person instruction in the upcoming semester, are being forced to cancel study abroad trips due to COVID-19 surges and travel restrictions across the world. The University ...

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Montgomery County could be the first in Maryland to return to indoor masking requirements as soon as tomorrow as county officials say they expect coronavirus cases to continue to rise. The potential mandates would come as the county has seen ...

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County government employees in Anne Arundel County will soon have to prove they’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19 or do not test positive for the virus.  Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman, a Democrat, announced a series of new policies and ...

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Larry Hogan signed a statewide order shutting down all “nonessential businesses” on March 23, 2020. If not designated an essential business by the order, a business had either severely restricted operations or was ...

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