The cerebral senator from Salisbury was Maryland's original policy wonk.

Democratic Del. Maggie McIntosh of Baltimore is one of two contenders to become the next speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, filling a role left vacant by the death of Michael Busch. Here are some facts about McIntosh and her career.

At 4 foot 11 inches tall, former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski almost stood a little shorter this week after a thief stool her famous footstool out of a car in Hampden.

A year after Maryland sent an all-male delegation to Congress for the first time in four decades, a handful of female candidates for federal office are questioning whether elected officials and organizations in the state are doing enough to avoid a similar outcome in the November midterm elections.

Retired Sen. Barbara Mikulski joins the Baltimore Community Foundation board.

Rep. John Sarbanes, Stoop Storytelling Series to host tribute to former senator Barbara Mikulski

Everybody in Maryland knows Barbara Mikulski, Baltimore's warrior for the working class.

One night shortly before the presidential inauguration, when I couldn't fall asleep, instead of counting sheep, I decided to think through the list of presidents in my lifetime and consider their strengths and weaknesses. There were 13, to be exact, since I was born shortly before FDR died. As it turned out, President Obama was the only president whose immediate family and whose Cabinet had absolutely no scandals in office. No Iran Contra, no Watergate, no mistresses or other sex scandals, no

Columbia Pro Cantare music director Frances Motyca Dawson has done a lot of music reflecting her Czech heritage over the years and other Eastern European co

The Maryland political powerhouse, who left the Senate this month after four decades in Congress, will join the Johns Hopkins University as a professor of public policy and an adviser to the president, the school said Thursday.

Barbara A. Mikulski, who will retire next month after 45 years in elected office, has become an accomplished political tactician, able to maneuver through the Senate, ascend to the chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee and build a legacy that will last long after Rep. Chris Van Hollen is sworn in next month as her successor.

Sen.-elect Chris Van Hollen, who will succeed Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski next year, will sit on the Senate Banking, Agriculture and Budget committees,

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski called for a return to civility in politics and vowed to continue serving Maryland as a private citizen during an emotional farewell speech on the Senate floor Wednesday in which she reflected on a career in office that has spanned more than four decades.

Top law enforcement officials and elected leaders in Maryland are expressing hope — and confidence — that Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein will continue in his role under the incoming administration of president-elect Donald J. Trump.

Sen.-elect Chris Van Hollen, who will take over for Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski next year, will head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the

Baltimore's Maggie McIntosh, a veteran Democratic state lawmaker, is weighing whether to take on Maryland's popular Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in the 2018 election.

Maryland's incoming, outgoing and continuing Democratic U.S. senators expressed a cautious willingness to work with President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday amid deep worries about where he would lead the country.

Maryland voters on Tuesday elected the person who will replace retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski was wrapping up in Highlandtown Tuesday, readying to move on to her next destination, when a woman walking to the polls ambushed her from behind. "I couldn't walk by without giving you a hug," said Sister Mary Ann Hartmann, wrapping her arms around the famously fierce and prickly history-making politician.

Whether excited or exasperated, millions of voters in Maryland and across the country will head to the polls Tuesday to close out one of the most unusual and divisive elections in generations. After the raucous primaries, two dozen debates and a deluge of news about private email servers and sexist remarks, voters will finally choose the nation's 45th president.

Who's ready to succeed Barbara Mikulski? It's no contest: Chris Van Hollen.

Former U.S. Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, who died in August, will be remembered Friday at public and private memorial services on Baltimore's waterfront.

Harford County voters may be holding their noses when they vote for president this year, but the down ballot positions this year offer some great choices.

Trump-supporter Szeliga does not reflect Maryland values

A U.S. Senate seat vacated by Democrat Barbara Mikulski has created some intrigue.

Officials in Virginia and Maryland who have been competing for years to land a new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation will have to wait a few more months to find out which state has the winning pitch. The General Services Administration said Monday it will delay selecting a site for the headquarters until March. The agency initially planned to choose between the three sites in play — two in Maryland and one in Virginia — by the end of the year.

Sen. Ben Cardin, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Wednesday he will join with other Democrats in voting to override

Fewer Md. women in lower offices drive a dearth higher up

Republican Senate candidate Kathy Szeliga will begin airing the first television ad in the race to succeed Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski -- an introductory piece

The federal agency that oversees AmeriCorps announced Thursday it is awarding $15.6 million to its Maryland-based programs, most of which will be used to mentor at-risk youth, expand health services and provide support to veterans and refugees.

Democrats angered over the lack of action on gun control after this weekend's shooting in Orlando launched a filibuster on the Senate floor Wednesday.

Maryland's U.S. Senators filed a measure on Wednesday to amend an annual Defense Department funding bill to create the tenth top level American military command at Fort Meade.

Maryland congresswoman lost her Senate bid on merit but she's correct to question a larger problem with diversity

Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin called Wednesday for FEMA to adjust flood plain maps for Ocean City, saying residents are facing high insurance costs.

Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of the year, left open the possibility of a future role in government.

The conventional wisdom for the November election to replace Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski goes like this: The presidential race will drive Maryland's heavy contingent of Democrats to the polls, virtually assuring the party's nominee, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, will win. But Republican nominee Kathy Szeliga, a Baltimore County state lawmaker, is already endeavoring to push back on that forecast. And she has at least one powerful argument in her favor. This year, the conventional wisdom has gotten it

Maryland now faces the possibility of sending an all-male congressional delegation to Washington next year for the first time since 1971.

On the morning after the candidates to become her replacement were established, Sen. Barbara Mikulski was content with her decision to retire at the end of her current term.

Veteran Montgomery County congressman would make a worthy successor to Barbara Mikulski

If Republicans want their best chance to win a Md. Senate seat, they should vote Kefalas.

Maryland Democratic candidates Rep. Chris Van Hollen and Rep. Donna Edwards are statistically tied in the race to take over Sen. Barbara Mikulski's senate seat.

Democrats who serve Maryland in Congress, including both of our senators, are declining to endorse in the primary race between Reps. Donna Edwards and Chris Van Hollen. And pardon me for saying so, but that's a cop-out.

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski on Friday reiterated her desire to stay "studiously neutral" in the Democratic primary race for her seat.