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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Wednesday that she has fired Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts.

A panel of environmentalists discussed concerns Wednesday about crude oil shipments along rail lines in Baltimore before a City Council panel.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake lashed out at critics of Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts, but didn't directly respond to calls for his resignation Wednesday.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, addressing an alleged slowdown in police activity since six officers were charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, said Wednesday that she had told police to do their jobs.

Baltimore police arrested fewer people in May than in any month for at least three years, despite a surge in homicides and shootings across the city — triggering safety concerns among residents. Several neighborhoods saw declines of more than 90 percent from April to May, while arrests in the West Baltimore area where Freddie Gray was arrested dropped by more than half during the same period, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis of police data. Citywide, arrests declined 43 percent from

As Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake prepares for what could be a challenging election campaign, she is losing her longtime fundraiser.

Residents of West Baltimore urged a City Council committee Thursday to approve a $58.3 million subsidy for new large mixed-use development in the West Baltimore's Poppleton neighborhood, saying it is urgently needed after last month's unrest.

Baltimore City Council members called Monday for additional study into the amount the recent unrest will cost the city and what more can be done to bring economic development to struggling neighborhoods.

The director of Baltimore's floundering CitiStat agency has been operating a private legal practice that works for state government under a five-year contract worth up to nearly $1 million.

Visitors to popular Hampden restaurants, bars and shops this spring would find new parking limits on some local streets under a plan approved Monday by a divided Baltimore City Council.

A proposal to limit parking outside homes near a major shopping center redevelopment in Hampden won preliminary approval in a tight vote by a divided Baltimore City Council Monday night.

City officials on Monday seized hundreds of artifacts recovered during archaeological digs in Carroll Park from a nonprofit that had been charged with caring for the pre-Civil War items but alarmed officials by moving boxes of them to a storage locker in Baltimore County without permission.

Politicians to get 2.5 percent raises

The Baltimore City Council on Monday unanimously approved Federal Hill Neighborhood Association President Eric T. Costello to fill a vacant seat, but several members expressed concern over a process they said lacked true community involvement.

Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young came under fire Wednesday after critics charged he pushed his favored candidate through a committee tasked with filling a vacant council seat.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake leads the money race against potential future political opponents with more than $350,000 on hand, a review of the most recent campaign finance reports shows.

Traffic camera giant Redflex has been lobbying the Rawlings-Blake administration and City Council to take over Baltimore's once-lucrative speed and red light camera network — stressing that it should not be judged by an unfolding scandal in Chicago in which a former top company official is charged with bribery.

Baltimore police are investigating what they're calling an "in custody death" at the Southwest district station.

Does the electronic dance music scene have a drug problem?

"Out of this conference, there will be new-to-the-city retailers," Rawlings-Blake says

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake returns to site she married lobbyists Lisa Harris Jones and Sean Malone

Deputy mayor Kaliope Parthemos will replace Alexander Sanchez

Baltimore's railroad legacy has ebbed over time as Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was subsumed and its successor CSX Transportation moved south. Residents and local officials say the city's prominence in the railroad industry crumbled alongside the aging tunnels, overpasses and tracks that convey trains through city neighborhoods every day.

Controversial legislation intended to help ex-convicts find jobs is headed to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for her expected signature after the City Council gave the measure final approval Monday.

From Cherry Hill to a West Side high school a few miles away, scores of families and friends turned out Wednesday night to mourn teenagers killed in recent days, and to decry persistent violence in the city.

Things have not gone according to plan for city and state officials and CSX Corp. executives in the Southwest Baltimore neighborhood of Morrell Park. State officials have pointed some blame at city officials for the neighborhood's proposed CSX truck-to-train cargo transfer facility having veered off track.

Baltimore's inspector general will begin an immediate investigation into allegations that information technology subcontractors were paid without performing any work for the city or received payment long after a contract was complete, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Tuesday.

Residents in Morrell Park believe city and CSX rail officials considered them pushovers when they decided to build a 24/7 truck-and-train transfer depot in their backyards. Now the residents are out to prove the opposite, and are having some success.

A key City Council chairman says Baltimore should find another way to crack down on problem liquor outlets rather than force about 100 of the longtime neighborhood stores out of business