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Maryland’s recreational cannabis industry inched a step closer Monday to reality as a state Senate committee passed a bill to get the industry up and running this summer.

Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay $240,000 to former employees as part of a settlement stemming from a complaint that the company violated federal law by closing a restaurant where workers wanted to unionize.

North Carolina-based First Citizens will buy Silicon Valley Bank, the tech industry-focused financial institution that collapsed earlier this month.

The Baltimore Sun is turning to readers to tell us what the best medical marijuana dispensary is, who is the best budtender in the area and what’s the best Maryland-produced strain.

Canton Overlook sits on Broening Highway, the thoroughfare created to serve Baltimore’s 1920s and 1930s industrial base.

Giant Food will open Nalley Fresh in its Ellicott City store on Friday, marking the first time the Landover-based grocer has added a fast-casual in-store restaurant to one of its supermarkets.

The Mall in Columbia on Thursday became the latest Baltimore-area mall to adopt a parental supervision policy, which will apply to teenagers under 18 on Friday and Saturday nights. The mall hopes to discourage gatherings of large groups of young teens, which have led to fights in recent months.

The pandemic changed the way Americans work, commute and use offices. Experts say office space across the country — especially in older buildings with fewer amenities — is increasingly at risk of becoming obsolete and unneeded.