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Baltimore water main break Monday morning generated widespread flooding around M&T Bank Stadium.

All Howard County government offices, the court system, libraries and more will be closed Thursday in observance of Independence Day. 

Maryland Transit Administration fares affect bus, light rail link, metro subway link and Mobility link.

Six people were injured when a Maryland Transit Administration bus and another vehicle crashed near the West Baltimore MARC Station Wednesday.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's office says a project to add toll lanes to Washington-area highways will cut air pollution, but a researcher says that's false.

The Maryland Transit Administration unveiled a searchable online database that provides the public with the ability to view and track on-time rates for buses.

Montgomery County developer Robert Eisinger wants to build a monorail on Maryland's congested Interstate 270.

The price of a one-way Maryland Transit Administration bus, subway, light rail or Mobility shuttle ticket will rise by 10 cents next month, the MTA announced.

Officials broke ground Friday on the Laurel Park Station development — located adjacent to the Laurel Park racetrack — that is meant to revitalize the Route 1 corridor in Howard County.

Rodney H. Peterson, a retired Chessie System construction engineer and lifelong rail fan and noted railroad photographer, died Friday of liver cancer and heart failure at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson. He was 89.

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s initial proposal for a high-speed, 35-mile “Loop” tunnel between Baltimore and Washington published an environmental assessment with federal regulators, a major step forward in the process toward government approval.

As we all know, the Baltimore Orioles had a miserable season in 2018. They had the worst record ever and a totally forgettable year. But it turned out to be a very important year for this lifelong fan — a lifesaving year.

Amtrak will invest $90 million to redevelop Baltimore Penn Station

Crews removed several train cars that derailed from their tracks Friday afternoon when a CSX train went off the tracks on the 1900 block of Falls Road.

In West Baltimore's Harlem Park, why not a robust neighborhood full of people again? Why not row after row of renovated rowhouses? Why not build new housing in some of the vacant lots? Why not green space?

A person was injured after being hit by an Amtrak train near the West Baltimore Station Monday morning.

Howard County has a distinct and thriving collection of communities, old and new, stable and growing. In Columbia, nearly a quarter of the land is preserved as open space.

A teenager has been struck and wounded by a MARC commuter train in Maryland, one day after another person was killed in the same county by another MARC train

The Maryland Transit Administration announced Tuesday that it had completed the installation of new bike racks on 35 MARC Train rail cars. The move will allow train riders to bring full-size bicycles on most weekday rush-hour Penn Line trains.

Meet Brian Seel: He lives in Baltimore City, but commutes to Howard County for work. Without a car. His daily journey takes place on foot and by train, and involves fence hopping, swamp dodging and the occasional game of live Frogger trying to cross busy roads with no crosswalks.

A few Baltimoreans will remember Ron Wilner’s voice. Those who don’t will still recognize his words.

Seventeen Marylanders, including six in Baltimore, have died as a result of cold weather this month. Thursday's single-digit temperatures have prompted more people to seek refuge at homeless shelters and created train delays.

The Maryland Transit Administration will continue to offer free transit to federal employees who were affected by the partial government shutdown through the end of the day Friday, the agency announced Sunday.

The Maryland Transit Administration is offering free bus, light rail, metro and MARC service to unpaid federal government workers until the end of the partial government shutdown.

City Council president and others can easily commute each day to a D.C. conference and save thousands in hotel charges.

The partial shutdown of the federal government reached its 33rd day, a record-long impasse stretching many federal employees in Maryland, as well as contractors, farmers, beer brewers and others in the state past their financial limits.

Five inches of snow covered Baltimore in the first wintry weekend of 2019, with the looming possibility of more later this week.

Harford County is planning upgrades to its public bus system, beginning Monday, aimed at cutting down on the need to transfer and reducing wait times, county officials said.

Hundreds more Marylanders are seeking unemployment insurance benefits related to the federal government shutdown. As the funding impasse reached its 12th day Wednesday, the state said it's received 462 such benefit applications from Dec. 22 through Dec. 31.

A northbound Penn Line MARC Train was canceled Wednesday evening after the train struck a deer, the Maryland Transit Administration announced.

State control of Baltimore's transit systems is a roadblock to regional transportation planning.

MARC, light rail and a host of other transit choices make more sense than investing in a futuristic maglev train system.

Baltimore’s buses, Light Rail, Metro Subway and MARC Train would be better served by local oversight than by the Maryland Transit Administration, a state agency which reports to the governor, according to the Greater Washington Partnership’s Capital Region Blueprint for Regional Mobility.

Veterans Day is Sunday, but many offices and businesses will be closed Monday.

Authorities say an Amtrak train and a tractor-trailer have collided, leading to a diesel fuel spill and delays on all rail traffic.

Governor Hogan's shortsighted transportation policy would increase pollution from highways while neglecting transit options.

As a train full of MARC passengers headed northbound toward Baltimore waited for hours for their train to move, one of them decided to put the time to good use. He pulled out a trombone.

Eighty-one MARC passengers headed toward Baltimore were stranded in a tunnel near Penn Station for nearly two hours Monday night, during which several cars of the train were evacuated because of a diesel odor, according to people on board. 

The Light Rail station at Camden Yards in Baltimore is shutting down this weekend and being rebuilt, the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration announced Thursday. 

Upgrading Baltimore public transit is about more than serving local employers.

MARC Penn Line service has improved this fall, as Amtrak has completed some track work and addressed repeated flooding in the 145-year-old B&P Tunnel. But one of the tracks remains out of service, and the trains still are not meeting goals for on-time service.

The agency on Thursday introduced “CharmPass,” a mobile app that allows transit riders to purchase tickets and passes for buses, the light rail, MARC trains and commuter buses, and the metro subway with a smartphone.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic challenger Ben Jealous met Monday for the only scheduled debate in the 2018 governor’s race. This transcript was generated through a mix of automated software and human editing.

A flash flood watch is in effect for large portions of Central Maryland and many surrounding communities through Tuesday afternoon, according to a National Weather Service alert issued at 1:37 a.m.

MARC trains will experience Hurricane Florence-related delays arriving and departing Union Station on Thursday.

Protesters gathered outside Dorothy I. Height Elementary School in West Baltimore to voice concerns over the proposed Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel Project, which includes plans to build a diesel exhaust shaft adjacent to the school.

Dubbed the Winslow at Parker Metal Building, the industrial-style venue at 333 W. Ostend St. features more than 10,000 square feet of event space on the first floor.

A $4.7 million renovation of the BWI Marshall Airport MARC station, which will include a bigger waiting area, new ticketing facilities, a concession area and restrooms, is set to begin Monday, the Maryland Transit Administration said.

City Seeds, a jobs training (restaurant and hospitality) is rising at an old city public works yard in a beleaguered part of East Baltimore

The Maryland Transit Administration blames the frequent service disruptions on its MARC commuter trains on the recent bad weather and scheduled track work.