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General Motors will idle its White Marsh plant by May 4, displacing the facility's 296 workers. The company announced the shutdown previously.

Baltimore-area businesses weathered failed deals, layoffs, closings and restructuring in 2018. But some started new chapters by expanding or merging, and new development sprouted all over and one new industry spread like a weed.

Members of Maryland's congressional delegation have asked General Motors Co. to reconsider its decision to end operations at its White Marsh plant and — at the least — to return more than $100 million in grant money it received for the plant. Delegation members met privately with GM CEO Mary Barra.

By Jeff Barker

Dec 5, 2018

General Motors' CEO to meet with U.S. lawmakers from Maryland and other states this week. Maryland lawmakers say the decision to end operations at its White Marsh facility demonstrates "extremely poor corporate citizenship.” The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday night in Washington.

By Jeff Barker

Dec 3, 2018

Can a Republican president really brag about raising taxes on American businesses and consumers? Meet Donald J. Trump.

If Maryland lawmakers had better monitored the activities at the General Motors plant in White Marsh, they might not have been surprised by its closure.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to express disappointment in General Motors for “closing plants” in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland while sparing facilities in Mexico and Canada. 

By Doug Donovan

Nov 27, 2018

Between GM closings and diminishing tax credits, EVs look like a novelty, not the national priority they should be.

By Dan Rodricks

Nov 27, 2018

A source said the plant being shuttered in Canada is just the beginning as GM prepares for the next downturn, shifting trade agreements and potential tariffs on imports.

By Doug Donovan

Nov 26, 2018

General Motors is potentially closing its White Marsh transmission plant. Here is a breakdown of the decision by the numbers.

By Lillian Reed

Nov 26, 2018

The Seattle company said Tuesday that it has begun delivering packages in 37 cities — including Baltimore — to Prime members who own newer General Motors or Volvo vehicles.

After nearly 50 years, Chuck Boyle retires from Boyle Buick GMC

By Erika Butler

Mar 7, 2018

The 58-year-old became principal and president of Boyle Buick GMC in Abingdon this month, taking the reins of Maryland’s top dealership of new Buicks as the business turns 50.

By Colin Campbell

Mar 1, 2018

General Motors’ car-sharing service, Maven, is bringing its “Maven Gig” option — which allows users to rent cars for freelance driving jobs such as ride-share or delivery — to Baltimore.

By Colin Campbell

Nov 14, 2017

State Attorney General reaches settlement with General Motors

By Lorraine Mirabella

Oct 19, 2017

General Motors Co. started its car-sharing service, Maven, just over a year ago, placing Chevrolets and Cadillacs in the parking garages of New York apartment

Union official James C. Ford dies

By Jacques Kelly

Jun 10, 2017

General Motors will announce Wednesday the launch of its Maven Express Drive car-sharing service in Baltimore Wednesday, debuting a fleet of 40 Chevrolets, GMCs and Cadillacs that can be rented at 20 locations in the city for $8 to $20 per hour, or $80 to $200 a day.

By Colin Campbell

Apr 6, 2017

Under Armour has hired a former executive of General Motors to serve as chief innovation officer.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Mar 13, 2017

Next generation technicians in demand

By Jon Bleiweis

Sep 12, 2016

Ride-sharing service Lyft and General Motors are launching a program in Chicago that will allow current Lyft drivers to rent GM cars, the companies said today.

Every time I open up a newspaper or turn on the nightly news there seems to be a new headline positioning General Motors (GM) as this decade's "comeback kid." Though GM has returned to profitability, it has done so at an immense expense to those who wrongly trusted this company to provide them with safe vehicles: It cost more than 120 lives and years of heartbreak for those of us left behind. But, that is a storyline no one is talking about.

At Baltimore's new Amazon warehouse tens of millions of items — diapers, post-its, frisbees, video games, salad spinners, shower curtains, history books — lie in wait. Roughly 16 miles of roaring conveyor belts carry the goods around the massive white building, from truck to shelf to packing and out again to customers.

By Natalie Sherman

Sep 28, 2015

General Motors Baltimore Operations and Koons Chevrolet donated a 15-passenger van to the nonprofit Penn North on Wednesday, which will help the organization transport clients to pharmacies, job fairs, doctor appointments and more.

If car dealers were truly free to let consumers know about the safety and repair problems they see, they could serve as a critical early warning system for consumers and regulators, letting car buyers and safety officials know about dangerous defects and pushing their customers to fix those problems — before they cause dozens of deaths on the road.

Betty L. Waghelstein, the former president and owner of Luby Chevrolet, whose East Baltimore Art Deco showroom was a landmark for decades, died Nov. 26 at Roland Park Place of complications from a broken hip. She was 89.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Dec 4, 2014

As today's computer-powered vehicles become increasingly connected to drivers and their lives and capable of transmitting data to the outside world, civil liberties organizations and driver advocacy groups have begun raising concerns with regulators, legislators and industry leaders.

DETROIT (AP) ¿ General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems, announcing Friday three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle.

The only way to stop lawbreaking at General Motors or any other big corporation is to prosecute the people who break the law.

GM sat by for the loss of 13 lives over a $2 part?

Commercial real estate company Duke Realty is moving forward with plans for a second Amazon distribution center next to the major facility announced last fall.

Household products maker Sun Products Corp. said Tuesday that it will close its manufacturing plant on Holabird Avenue in Southeast Baltimore, laying off the 300 people there.

Gerald Allen Elkins, a retired Department of Planning mapmaker and graphic artist who detailed Baltimore's transformation for more than four decades, died of cancer Nov. 28 at his Ocean Pines home. The former Overlea resident was 65.

Jacqueline A. Stewart, a retired nursing supervisor and dog lover, died Nov. 16 from complications of a stroke at Lorien Riverside Nursing Center in Belcamp. She was 76.

Maryland's manufacturing job losses — the result of cutbacks, shutdowns and technological innovations requiring fewer people — are among the nation's steepest. Advocates say it's not too late to reverse that.

Online retailer Amazon has partnered with the U.S. Postal Service to provide Sunday package delivery at no extra cost in two key cities, and plans to expand the program dramatically in the next year.

Aiming to boost the fledgling market for plug-in vehicles, Maryland and seven other states pledged Thursday to use their governments' tax and spending powers to get 3.3 million "zero-emission" cars, trucks and vans on the road in the next dozen years.

When Amazon.com opens a huge distribution center next year in Southeast Baltimore, consumers across the state who buy books, electronics, toys or anything else from the online seller will no longer be able to avoid the state's 6 percent sales tax on those purchases.

Credits for impoverished areas, loans make up incentive package.

Amazon.com is bringing 1,000 jobs to Baltimore, but reports about the company's employment practices give reason for concern.

Amazon.com will open a 1 million-square-foot distribution center that could employ 1,000 people at the site of the former General Motors plant in Southeast Baltimore, the company announced Tuesday.