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The Maryland Senate is advancing a version of a minimum wage increase that gives small businesses more time to reach a $15 minimum wage.

Bills on the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration's access to birth certificates; airplane passenger safety; e-cigarette sales; classroom cellphone use;

Healthcare advocates who are pushing for bills to combat high drug prices were met with sympathetic but skeptical questioning from state lawmakers Wednesday.

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. on Friday announced new committee and leadership appointments.

The Maryland Senate is poised to take a final vote Thursday on a sweeping bill that aims to reduce prison populations in order to save money that can be plowed into crime prevention and drug treatment.

Anthony G. Brown's campaign for the open House seat in Maryland's 4th Congressional District announced the endorsement of seven Prince George's County officials on Wednesday.

Felons will be able to vote as soon as they are released from prison after the Maryland Senate overrode Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of legislation from last year's General Assembly session.

While many Marylanders got a reprieve from work on Monday as snow cleanup continued, state lawmakers and the people who assist them didn't get a snow day.

State officials said at a legislative briefing Thursday that their agencies must do more to flag financial mismanagement at group homes — problems similar to those that went unheeded at an Anne Arundel County facility where a 10-year-old died this month.

Students from districts statewide on Thursday testified in opposition to a senate bill that would strip the Anne Arundel County school board student member of full voting rights.

Legislation would reduce euthanasia by almost half in Maryland at no cost to taxpayers