Meredith Cohn

The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association plans to move its popular men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to Baltimore in 2021, beating out Norfolk, Va., and Charlotte, N.C., according to several media sources.

About five months after a new executive took the helm of the state’s largest health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the nonprofit reports that it has launched a reorganization but would not say if that included layoffs. 

Americans are spending more than twice as much for health care than people in other developed countries and more than double what they used to spend, a new batch of figures from Johns Hopkins University shows.

Omega Healthcare Investors, a Hunt Valley-based real estate investment trust, will acquire MedEquities Realty Trust, the companies announced Wednesday.

Assessments on residential and commercial property will rise around the state an average of 9.1 percent, continuing an upswing in values used to calculate how much property owners pay in taxes.

Property owners in downtown Baltimore, concerned about crime and delayed maintenance, plan to add their voices, and possibly their resources, to improving the downtown area that has been getting an influx of residents and office workers.

Maryland’s unemployment rate dropped to 4 percent in November, from 4.1 percent the month before, reflecting a solid labor market that economists say could help the state withstand the budget uncertainty in Washington.

While enrollment in health exchange plans in Maryland this year was up a modest 2 percent, there were places where policies were downright hot sellers: rural areas.

Baltimore-area businesses weathered failed deals, layoffs, closings and restructuring in 2018. But some started new chapters by expanding or merging, and new development sprouted all over and one new industry spread like a weed.

Union Hospital of Cecil County will not join LifeBridge Health, which operates Sinai Hospital and several other medical facilities in the region, they jointly announced Wednesday. 

The Center Club, which is slightly older than its average member, is seeking younger members by changing its offerings, decor and even dress code to appeal to millennials.

Johns Hopkins University was the top spender among U.S. universities on research and development in fiscal 2017, marking the 39th consecutive year the Baltimore institution has led the list, according to an annual assessment by the National Science Foundation.

A Laurel woman planned to deliver her baby at Howard County General Hospital, but she made it only as far as the driveway outside the front door.

The Maryland health exchange is responding to a last-minute spike in enrollment in the last week of this year’s sign-up period by allowing those people who are “in line” can complete their enrollment after the Dec. 15 deadline. 

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing was given a $3 million grant to implement an aging-in-place program for seniors across the country.

Several leaders from a Johns Hopkins-affiliated childrens’ hospital in Florida submitted their resignations Tuesday following a year-long investigation by the Tampa Bay Times that revealed a high rate of devastating injuries and death among the center’s young patients. 

The Cordish Cos. plans to partner with the rideshare company Lyft at Power Plant Live in Baltimore and similar entertainment complexes around the country, the Baltimore-based company planned to announce Tuesday.

The median sale price for a home in the Baltimore region ticked up in November from October, reversing a three-month slide in prices, new figures show.

The state health exchange enters its final week of this year’s open enrollment, and Marylanders appear more interested in buying health insurance than many Americans.

Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson will house a new center to look for treatments and a cure for a rare genetic disease called Alstrom Syndrome and perhaps contribute to therapies for many other diseases.

The Bell Foundry building in Station North that once houses dozens of artists and performers before it was condemned last year was sold to a developer that has been upgrading old urban buildings into boutique apartments.

A father-son builder-architect team is putting up eight prefab, or modular, homes in East Baltimore Midway in hopes of boosting the neighborhood.

FedEx Supply Chain is holding a job fair on Monday and Tuesday in Towson in hopes of signing on 500 people for full-time seasonal jobs — in York, Pa.

Franklin Square broke ground Monday on a $70 million surgical tower, replacing old and undersized operating rooms in the community hospital east of Baltimore City.

Johns Hopkins researchers have found that oils from garlic and other herbs and plants show promise in treating the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, particularly those who continue to have symptoms after antibiotic treatment of the disease, which is on the rise.

The University of Maryland School of Medicine planned to announce a sweeping initiative Friday that aims to change the culture in the venerable institution that took a public bruising recently from allegations that officials there failed to consider the poor treatment of women.

Another mortgage crisis may be on the horizon as out-of-state hedge funds buy up distressed loans and seek to foreclose on people’s houses, consumer advocates warned Thursday during a rally where they called for a legislative fix.

Care in a special heart surgery unit at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., became so troubled that last year one in 10 patients died and others suffered devastating complications before procedures were halted, a year-long investigation by the Tampa Bay Times found.

Volo City, the adult social sports company launched in Baltimore, has bought a lifestyle website aimed at young female millennials called Bitches Who Brunch.

The new CEO of Maryland’s largest health insurer wants to explore means of lowering health cost for all state residents, as well as expanding its own reach potentially through the Medicare and Medicaid government health programs.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh has signed an executive order recognizing LGBTQ-owned businesses, a move that could bring significant amount of work to the community.

The Maryland Department of Health office responsible for the safety of hospitals and other health care facilities plans to move from its Catonsville building that was badly damaged by flooding earlier this year, potentially causing a commuting hardship.

Toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker has announced a $250 million cost reduction program that could affect its workforce in Maryland.

Dr. Theodore R. Delbridge has been named executive director of the Maryland Institute for Emergency medical Services Systems, called MIEMSS, a state agency that coordinates the statewide emergency medical system.

Marylanders buying insurance through the health exchange created under the Affordable Care Act will no longer face a federal penalty for skipping coverage — but they may soon face one from the state.

Reed Cordish, who left his family’s development firm for a year-long stint leading a White House effort on infrastructure and government innovation, plans to announce that he has invested in a five-year-old Baltimore-based sports management agency. 

The pharmaceutical wholesaler AmerisourceBergen Corp. has agreed to settle a lawsuit with Maryland and several other states and the federal government that alleged the company fraudulently marketed adulterated drugs to vulnerable cancer patients. 

The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent in October from 4.2 September and 4.3 percent a year before.

Upgrades planned for Rash Field, the multi-purpose swath on the south shore of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, have been refined and could get underway next fall, according to the Waterfront Partnership, a city non-profit leading the work.

Suzane Robert's family home was taken as part of a revitalization effort near Johns Hopkins Hospital, and more than a decade later she is reclaiming it and the life she once had.

The National Labor Relations Board has found further evidence Johns Hopkins officials are restricting the rights of nurses trying to unionize.

With Johns Hopkins in its crosshairs, the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans to run an ad in Baltimore that depicts experiments on animals.

The median sale price for homes in the Baltimore metro area dropped $10,100 from September to October and remained unchanged from a year ago.

Close to a third of Maryland workers who filed injury compensation claims in recent years continued to rely on highly addictive opioid painkillers three months after they were hurt, according to a recent study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers.

Maryland may have allowed residents who did not qualify for Medicaid into the government health program for the poor by failing to consider all of their income, a routine audit of the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the Maryland health exchange found.

St. Elizabeth Hall, an independent-living apartment complex on the Stella Maris campus in Timonium, has had two cases of Legionnaires' disease.

The warden of the women's prison at Jessup has been overhauling the menu to discard the empty carbs and improve the health of inmates.

Enterprise Homes and Pax-Edwards broke ground Thursday on Red Run Overlook, a new apartment complex in Owings Mills that aims to provide housing for those coming to the area for jobs.

David Edward Furniture Inc., a family-owned high-end furniture maker in Halethorpe, has been bough by Jasper, Ind.-bas an out-of-state furniture manufacturer Kimball.

Harford County will get two more industrial buildings next year, as developers respond to demand from e-commerce and other retail companies, as well as manufacturers that need a lot of space for inventory