u s house committee on ways and means

Congress returns to work Monday facing a tight deadline to fund highway and road projects across the country, an election-year scramble that has injected uncertainty into state and local construction plans at the start of the summer driving season.

The Howard County Times and Columbia Flier endorsed candidates running in contested races in the Maryland primary on June 24.

In their only scheduled debate on Baltimore television, the four Republican candidates for governor depicted Maryland as overtaxed and overspent under a Democratic administration, creating a climate in which businesses are fleeing to neighboring states.

Del. Ron George's first campaign ad in the governor's race claims he fought more than 300 proposed tax increases

Missing 75 percent of committee votes deserves a better explanation than Delegate Jon Cardin has so far offered his constituents

Del. Jon Cardin, the front-runner to become Maryland's next attorney general, missed nearly 75 percent of the votes in his Annapolis committee this year.

Here are some of the things expected to happen as the General Assembly goes into one's the body's busiest days of the session.

The Maryland House of Delegates will meet Saturday to vote on dozens of bills on the last weekend of the 2014 General Assembly session, including measures to decriminalize marijuana and ban grain alcohol.

Advocates of legalizing marijuana launched their effort to change the law in Maryland Thursday, calling the war on drugs a failure and pointing to growing public support for their cause.

State legislators from the Towson area will again focus their attention on adding elected members to the Baltimore County Board of Education when the 434

Lieutenant governor's plan to exempt most military pensions from state taxes may make him popular with vets but it's not prudent for Maryland

Maryland has resolved many of the problems with its new health insurance exchange and more people are signing up, officials said Tuesday, though they acknowledged that a number of glitches remain.

A leading opponent of the effort to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland used a high-profile congressional hearing Tuesday to allege that the IRS leaked a list of its donors to an adversarial group just as it was mounting a campaign to put gay marriage on the ballot.

Maryland's newest member of the House of Representatives introduced his first bill on Wednesday, a new infrastructure funding proposal that has won bipartisan support in an otherwise divided Congress.

As the 2013 legislative session winds down for the Harford County delegation in Annapolis, local lawmakers said they have been kept busy this year with prominent bills like those repealing the death penalty and issuing stricter gun control measures.

A waiting tax refund apparently is a good incentive, the Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office is finding.

The Anne Arundel County Delegation on Friday voted in favor of a bill that would change the makeup the of county's school board from all-appointed to elected and appointed, said House Delegate Steve Schuh, the bill's co-sponsor.

Efforts by the Maryland General Assembly to improve reporting, coordination among school districts and other measures to bolster school security around the state prompted a spirited discussion among members of the Harford County Board of Education Monday about the role of state government in local education matters.