Kate Magill

Since 2000, the Department of Recreation and Parks has included a capital project in its annual budget request to fund the dredging and cleaning of the lake. Each year, including this most recent budget cycle that took affect July 1, the project has been pushed aside.

The Howard County Council is considering an update of its ethics laws, including the possible exclusion of 12 county boards and commissions from financial disclosure requirements.

Now in its 10th year, the biannual event is a celebration of the county’s local food scene and helps to promote businesses in the area, said Howard County Tourism Interim Director Amanda Hof.

Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman stepped into the governor’s race politics this week when criticized democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous for his mention of the May 27 Ellicott Flood in a fundraising email.

Howard County Council chairwoman warns "it’s irresponsible for me to approve a contract" for a new $140 million courthouse without answers to questions about terms of the unique financing and construction deal.

The first ever Lakefront Film Festival, initially scheduled for July 26 to July 29, has been postponed until next year.

Wielding signs that featured Mr. Monopoly and the phrase “pay poor tax of $600,” residents were out on Monday night to show their support for a bill that would repeal the county’s tax on mobile home rental sites.

Ellicott City residents and shop owners came out on Monday night to testify in support of a proposed bill to place a yearlong freeze on development in the Tiber River watershed while the county looks into the causes of flooding.

Howard County officials said Monday that they will soon lift Ellicott City’s state of emergency, put in place in the aftermath of the May 27 deadly flash flood.

The county council is considering a bill month that may repeal the mobile home site tax and provide some relief to the county’s roughly 1,100 mobile home residents

Beginning next week, the Trinity School in Ellicott city will add to the list of rain gardens in the county, with plans to install a 9,903-square-foot bioretention site on its grounds.

The county’s road and transit improvement plans will continue next year, thanks to nearly more than $20 million in capital funds planned for projects including repaved roads, renovated bus stops and bridge improvements.

County Executive Allan Kittleman’s reelection campaign announced on Wednesday it had received endorsements from three police unions, support he did not receive in his first run for the job in 2014.

As the vision of downtown Columbia comes to fruition, officials are strategizing how to make good on the founder’s vision, without clogging downtown with the cars of hundreds of new residents.

Political newcomer Liz Walsh held onto her win over incumbent Jon Weinstein in the District 1 Democratic primary following Wednesday’s recount.