Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake is seeking employers for its job and resource fair, set from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Grand Lodge of Maryland, 1307 Eutaw Place, Baltimore. Goodwill is hosting the career fair to help ...

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West Baltimore needs more health care professionals — and the state is offering to foot the bill to train them.

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A coalition of health care providers in West Baltimore will receive $5 million in state incentives over the next four years to address the public health needs of a community they say has long been neglected.

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The first residents of 23 for-sale units in a $238 million redevelopment of the West Baltimore community of Uplands moved in last week, officials said Monday as the ambitious project officially opened amid cautious optimism.

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Architects laid out proposals for the design of the section of the Red Line that runs along Edmonson Avenue in West Baltimore at Thursday’s meeting of the city’s Urban Design and Architectural Review Panel.

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A maintenance facility for the proposed mass transit Red Line would be at the corner of West Franklin Street and North Franklintown Road in West Baltimore, according to plans discussed during Thursday’s meeting of the Baltimore Urban Design and Architectural Review Panel.

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In 2007, Bon Secours Hospital, which services a troubled West Baltimore neighborhood, was operating $15 million in the red and was facing an uncertain future. On Friday, hospital officials said the institution had righted the sinking ship, shored up its ...

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Expansion of the 21-bus Charm City Circulator to include the Fort McHenry Monument and National Shrine will soon take place with the help of a $1.5 million federal transportation grant. The Circulator will expand its territory into the city’s southern ...

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After insisting that he was a victim of police retaliation, West Baltimore boxer Deon Johnson had his attempted murder case dropped this week on the morning of the trial. That story and more in this week’s legal affairs top 5. ...

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To hear him tell the story, West Baltimore teen Deon Johnson was an up-and-coming boxer, hoping to punch his ticket to next summer’s Olympic Games in London. His boxing coach was equally optimistic, fondly recalling Johnson’s jab, his movement in ...

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