The Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore's 58th annual show in Howard County featured displays of fossils, gems, jewelry, minerals and lapidary art.

St. John’s Jewelers, of Ellicott City, is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a family-owned and operated business.

We pick our Team of the Week and hand out five game balls to Howard County high school athletes who had tremendous weeks.

Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall in the North Carolina early Saturday, lashing coastal areas with damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

River Hill football rushed for over 300 yards as a team, while its defense smothered Long Reach for a win in the Ravens RISE High School Football Showdown.

River Hill boys soccer earned a fourth clean sheet in their opening five games as senior Dylan Martinez scored a pair of goals in a 2-0 win over Wilde Lake.

Howard County schools superintendent Michael Martirano said Wednesday that his new school start time plan had already showed success on its first day, as the Maryland School Bus Contractors Association on Thursday released a statement expressing its alarm at the transportation issues.

Long Reach field hockey battled back from a pair of one-goal deficits to go into halftime tied with Centennial. The Lightning went ahead less than a minute into the second half.

Dozens of concerned parents met in Columbia Tuesday night to express frustrations with Howard County Public School System officials and their handling of new school start times, canceled bus routes, consistently late buses and other issues, three weeks into the new school year.

Eight new pickleball courts were recently opened at Western Regional Park to address the rise in the sport’s popularity in Howard County.

No. 6 Glenelg volleyball responded in a big way after dropping the opening set to defeat No. 10 Reservoir, 20-25, 25-19, 25-16, 25-16.

Mt. Hebron pulled away from Glenelg for a victory Monday as its lines controlled the game and Coleman Hallums had a strong night running the football.

The national Roberto Clemente Memorial Scholarship, a new partnership between the Roberto Clemente Foundation and the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, awarded its inaugural scholarship to a student from Crofton.

A 17-year-old Oakland Mills High School student was arrested Monday after Howard County police say a loaded handgun was found in his bag at the school.

We pick our Team of the Week and hand out our five game balls across fall sports in Howard County from Sept. 9-16.

The plea agreement signed by John Willie Kennedy, Jr., 45, and filed in court Thursday details that he told a federal grand jury in 2021 that he was inside his Columbia town house when he heard the gunshots that killed Meiko Locksley — and admitted that story was false when federal agents confronted him over a year later.

Howard County schools will have new start times again, beginning next week. High schools will start 10 minutes earlier, at 7:50 a.m., per a schedule Superintendent Michael Martirano released Wednesday afternoon in the midst of busing problems.

Top-ranked Broadneck field hockey showcased its unselfishness in a dominant 9-1 win over No. 6 River Hill.

Here is a preview of the 2023 high school boys soccer season in Howard County.

Howard senior Isaiah Omole headed home the game-winning goal in the 95th minute of the Lions' 2-1 double-overtime win over No. 7 Reservoir.

Median home prices in the Baltimore region continue to climb despite the highest mortgage rates in more than two decades, according to a new report from the real estate firm Bright MLS. Sales meanwhile are off by about 22%.

Informal data from the 2022-23 school year show that while the overall incidence of the use of restraint on students in Howard County public schools has decreased, more than two-thirds of the time the practice involves a Black student.

The Indian Cultural Association of Howard County will host the fifth annual Festival of India at the Howard County Fairgrounds on Saturday and Sunday.

Dr. Harold F. "Doc" Burton, a veterinarian who owned the Towson Veterinary Hospital for three decades, died Aug. 31 at his Abingdon home. He was 102.

Howard schools Superintendent Michael Martirano told the school board Thursday that bus service has continued to improve since the beginning of the school year Aug. 28.

The Rev. Carrie Schofield-Broadbent, bishop-elect of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, shares her thoughts and intentions for the diocese as her consecration awaits.

Glenelg and Mt. Hebron girls soccer each fell one game shy of a state championship last year, but are expected to be contenders once again in 2023.