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Environmental and community groups are opposing plans to reopen the C.P. Crane power plant in Baltimore County.

Baltimore County developers must pay new fees starting next year to help cover the costs of schools and roads, but the County Council added many exemptions.

The Baltimore County Council voted unanimously to confirm Melissa Hyatt as the next county police chief.

The Baltimore County County Council approved a school budget that meets needs despite tough fiscal times and the need to raise revenue.

Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young and other city officials will spend much of the week in Las Vegas to attend an annual retail convention.

The Baltimore County Council reduced County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s $3.4 billion spending plan by $14 million.

A Baltimore County bill that changes the rules for where commercial kennels can be located wasn't meant to target just one kennel, but to close a loophole in the current law.

Baltimore County voters will decide next year whether to give local candidates the option of public campaign financing, under legislation approved Monday by the County Council.

Baltimore County Council members are pressing the county school board to release an audit of school system contracts and finances.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. faced questions from the County Council on Tuesday on his proposal to open the door to the public financing of local campaigns.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. on Wednesday named eight members of a panel that will interview top candidates for the position of county police chief.

Baltimore County Councilman Wade Kach on Tuesday withdrew his bill that would have suspended the development of commercial solar facilities in rural areas.

The budget town hall was the first of seven being held in each county council district to solicit input on the county's budget priorities.

The Baltimore County executive's statement came the day after residents packed a community meeting in Perry Hall on Thursday night to discuss crime.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. is planning a series of “town hall” meetings around the county in early 2019.

The Baltimore County Council on Monday approved giving Tradepoint Atlantic up to $78 million to build roads, water lines and sewer pipes at the old steel mill in Sparrows Point that the company is redeveloping.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. is joining the chorus of politicians pressing General Motors not to close its plant in White Marsh.

As financial experts warn that Baltimore County may need to either raise taxes or scale back borrowing, the new county executive said Monday his first act will be to form a commission to review the county’s fiscal outlook and budget process.

As Johnny Olszewski Jr. takes over as Baltimore County executive Monday, he faces an increasingly challenging financial forecast that may force him to consider raising taxes.

At the final meeting of their term on Monday, Baltimore County Council members voted to extend the county’s traffic camera program, to hire lawyers to defend zoning lawsuits brought by religious groups and to accelerate construction projects.

Democrats will hold on to their slim majority on the Baltimore County Council after all of the incumbents retained their seats in Tuesday’s general election.

Members of the Baltimore County Council are officially urging the owners of the White Marsh Mall to ban unaccompanied teenagers on Friday and Saturday nights.

The Baltimore County Council is considering a resolution encouraging White Marsh Mall to adopt a curfew for underage teenagers on Friday and Saturday evenings. The request would be a response to a fight over the summer during which police arrested seven minors and two 19-year-olds.

Baltimore County Council members are pushing the owners of the White Marsh Mall to enact a youth curfew policy, following an August fight that ended with nine arrests.

Members of the Baltimore County Council voted Monday to abolish a tax of up to $240 per year levied on residents of mobile homes.

The Baltimore County Council voted Monday to give the county's environmental director an oversight role when there are proposals for projects that could harm wildlife in county parks.

The Baltimore County Council plans to vote Monday on a bill that would give greater scrutiny to projects that would affect wildlife at county parks, a move inspired by a controversial tree-painting effort at Oregon Ridge Park.

Baltimore County officials announced Thursday in Bowleys Quarters that the county was taking steps to ensure preparedness whatever Hurricane Florence brings to the area.

County Council members say that critics of their proposed changes to MTA bus service in White Marsh haven't offered any any alternatives to improve public safety.

The Baltimore County executive, Don Mohler, harshly criticized a proposal from two county legislators to cut late-night weekend bus service to White Marsh Mall after a fight on Saturday led to the arrest of nine people.

The Baltimore City Council president and a representative of a Northeast Baltimore district said Thursday that they were strongly opposed to a proposal to cut bus service to White Marsh Mall after a fight over the weekend. They believe some supporters of the proposal are motivated by racism.

Upgraded transit isn't a threat to Baltimore region, it's the potential salvation of it.

Baltimore County officials' attempts to curb mass transit after the White Marsh Mall fight aren't as bad as what's going on in Anne Arundel. But they're still wrong.

Baltimore County Council members Cathy Bevins and Davis Marks asked the MTA in a letter Wednesday to stop sending buses to the White Marsh Mall area after 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays after a fight over the weekend that led to the arrest of two adults and seven juveniles.

A fight on Saturday night at the White Marsh Mall has Baltimore County officials proposing that the mall only allow young people in on certain nights if they have a parent or guardian with them.

The Sun makes its endorsements in Baltimore County Council races.

Baltimore County Councilwoman Vicki Almond of Reisterstown is one of the three leading Democratic candidates running for Baltimore County executive.

Election-year politics burst out at the Baltimore County Council meeting Tuesday as two Democratic candidates seeking to be the next county executive offered support for a gun control bill sponsored by their common rival: Councilwoman Vicki Almond. 

Baltimore County’s next county executive will be Don Mohler, a former school teacher and veteran of county government.

Republicans in eastern Baltimore County are lining up in hopes of unseating a Democratic councilwoman seeking her third term this fall.  

More landlords in Baltimore County will have to obtain licenses for their rental properties under legislation approved Monday by the County Council.

A divided Baltimore County Council voted Monday to sell a controversial county-owned property to a private developer at a steeply discounted price.

The leading Democratic candidates for Baltimore County executive rolled out endorsements on Thursday as their race heats up.

The decision to close the pediatric emergency room at Medstar Franklin Square hospital has caused an uproar from the community and hospital staff, who say MedStar has abandoned its mission to serve the community in the pursuit of profits.

The number of crimes reported in Baltimore County rose 3.9 percent from 2016 to 2017. But most of the county police department’s 10 precincts saw much greater increases in serious violent crimes.

A last-minute flurry of fiings for Towson area offices came in this week as Tuesday's filing deadline for the June 26 primary election approached. Here's who is in the running.

Baltimore County Council members are set to approve the hiring of private lawyers on Monday who will help the county government sue pharmaceutical companies that make opioid drugs.

The “Maryland Party” — that annual Las Vegas schmooze fest between developers and the state’s top elected and government officials — appears to be on schedule for this May despite being held, yet again, at a resort owned by billionaire Steve Wynn.

Baltimore County Council members vote Monday on nearly $43 million of financial assistance to the developers of the stalled Towson Row project.

The British invasion has landed in Baltimore as Gordon Ramsay Steak opens at the Horseshoe Casino.