COLLEGE PARK — In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, as stay-at-home orders took effect and more commuters worked from home or lost their jobs, air pollution dropped markedly in Maryland, according to a recent report from the University ...

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Existing residential foreclosure proceedings may resume and new foreclosure actions may be initiated beginning Jan. 4 under an executive order Gov. Larry Hogan issued Friday that includes protections for borrowers financially harmed by the pandemic. The order requires lenders or ...

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A Goucher Poll indicates about half of Marylanders wouldn't receive a free, FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine if it were available today, mirroring national trends.

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ANNAPOLIS — School systems around the state are being “strongly encouraged” by Gov. Larry Hogan to begin moving to in-class instruction by the end of the first quarter at the latest. Hogan and his top health and school advisers cited ...

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Maryland Legal Aid’s employees’ union is urging the National Labor Relations Board to order four fired supervisory attorneys to be reinstated, saying they were illegally terminated for having raised concerns about MLA’s back-to-the-office order amid the pandemic. MLA’s senior leadership ...

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Maryland Legal Aid’s longtime executive director said Monday he has no plans to quit amid sharp criticism from more than 130 former staffers who call the recent firing of four managerial attorneys, allegedly for questioning back-to-work orders, symptomatic of senior ...

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As if it’s not bad enough that positive cases of COVID-19 are on a rapid rise across the U.S., a recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine put the positivity rate at three times higher for Latinos than for other U.S. ...

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A local nonprofit organization announced Thursday it has launched an online website to help policymakers understand and track the impacts of COVID-19 in the state. The Baltimore Regional Recovery Dashboard, which was created by the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, features data and ...

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The Baltimore Police Department’s training academy was closed after four trainees and two staff members tested positive for the coronavirus, the agency announced Monday. The department stopped in-person training Friday and transitioned recruits to online learning following confirmation of the ...

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Johns Hopkins University has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration’s decision to make international students leave the U.S. if they intend to take classes entirely online starting this fall. The Baltimore private institution filed the lawsuit Friday ...

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