Emily Opilo

Baltimore residents lobbied for a reduction in police spending and more investment in social services during the city’s second annual Taxpayers’ Night on Thursday, the last chance for the public to speak out about the city’s proposed budget ahead of the Baltimore City Council’s consideration of the plan next month.

Calling the level of Baltimore's current violence "beyond comprehension," City Council members are giving city police about two weeks to come up with a plan for reducing it as budget discussions loom next month.

Baltimore’s rollout of American Rescue Plan funds has put City Council members on the hot seat with numerous local nonprofit organizations, members of the board bemoaned Tuesday during a quarterly update on the money.

More Baltimore City Council members weigh in on President Nick Mosby's alleged ethics violations as a website established to collect money for the legal defense of Mosby and his wife, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, switches to a mostly blank “maintenance mode.”

Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby should comply with an ethics board order to return money collected by a legal defense fund established to benefit him and his wife, cease fundraising activities and produce a list of donors to the fund, a group of City Council members said in a letter due to be sent to Mosby Saturday.

A legal defense fund Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby has attempted to distance himself from was established by Robyn Murphy, a local consultant who is friends with Mosby and his wife, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.

Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby violated the city’s ethics ordinance by indirectly soliciting for a legal defense fund established for him and his wife, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, the city’s Board of Ethics ruled Thursday. Nick Mosby denied it, saying "I am completely perplexed by the board’s findings."

Baltimore fire officials spoke out Wednesday against a bill that would require body cameras on firefighters and place restrictions on entering vacant buildings, arguing that the legislation duplicates rules already on the books.

Young Baltimore parents with limited income are hoping to be picked for a "young families success fund" program offering $1,000 a month for two years to 200 young families in the city. Applications are being accepted until 11:59 p.m. Monday.

Baltimore residents would face water and stormwater rate increases of 3% and a sewer rate increase of 3.5% each of the next three years under a plan introduced by Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration Wednesday.

Baltimore's long-neglected Middle Branch shoreline offers enormous potential, and an emerging plan envisions water-based recreation, waterfront festival space, renewed wetlands and trails to connect residents to the water.

Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby publicly apologized Wednesday for a chaotic scene that unfolded in City Hall on Tuesday night involving a housing lobbyist with whom he held a joint news conference, allowed to speak in Council Chambers and had promoted to his fellow council members.

The debate over a proposed revival of Baltimore’s Dollar House program erupted into a verbal melee among the members of the Baltimore City Council and the public as people flooded City Hall on Tuesday, filling council chambers and pounding on Mayor Brandon Scott’s office door.

A select group of Baltimore’s young parents will get a financial leg up over the next two years, courtesy of a guaranteed income pilot program city officials plan to launch next month.

A Baltimore Police employee has been fired after background investigation failed to turn up a past gun charge and the employee has been identified as a “person of interest” in a homicide investigation, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said Wednesday.