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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra lockout is a disappointing development, but it need not mean the end of classical music as we know it in Baltimore.

The University of Maryland Medical System reported paying $108 million since 2012 to Whiting-Turner Contracting Company while its CEO held board seat.

For several years, the gap between the rich and the poor has increased in the United States. Baltimore continues to be a strikingly unequal and segregated city. Yet, in these hard times, the Walters Art Museum has given us a refreshing gift and a strong reminder of our common humanity

City and state economic development leaders have concluded that a plan to build a replacement for Royal Farms Arena on the site of the Baltimore Convention Center is too ambitious and complicated to be realistic.

The Walters Art Museum's Hackerman House, renamed 1 W. Mount Vernon Place, reopens to the public Saturday after a multi-year, $10.4 million renovation.

When Hackerman House reopens in 2018, visitors will find a renewed emphasis on its past as a historic home

The Kennedy Krieger Institute plans to start construction in December on a $46 million expansion of its outpatient clinic in east Baltimore.

City and state officials are looking to revive a plan to build a bigger convention center, a proposal that has failed to get off the ground despite years of discussion.

After hearing community concerns, Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young is delaying a final vote to approve tax breaks for large concerts and comedy shows at the aging Royal Farms Arena.

Members of Baltimore's tourist industry are pressing harder for public support for advertising and new facilities, sounding a familiar refrain with new urgency as they face a downturn in visitors in the aftermath of April's riots.

The University of Maryland Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute opens a Hackerman-Patz House where patients and families can stay while they get care.

Sarah's Hope, a shelter in Sandtown-Winchester provides, private rooms for intact family after a $8 million renovation that doubled capacity at the city's largest shelter for men, women and children.

It doesn't matter whether other governors have done it, Martin O'Malley's rock-bottom-discount purchase of furniture from Government House is wrong.

One of Baltimore's most prominent development firms wants to build a new, world-class arena on piers in the Inner Harbor, reviving a long-talked-about project that would replace the aging Royal Farms Arena on the city's west side.

The O'Malley administration's scramble to make an Eastern Shore farm purchase less sketchy falls short of good government

Boyd Rutherford served in Republican administrations in both Annapolis and Washington, but says he never seriously considered running for office until Larry Hogan asked him to run for lieutenant governor.

The wills of Maryland's most affluent shed light on their wealth and, many times, their hobbies. The wills, obtained by The Baltimore Sun from the Baltimore County Register of Wills, can often be illuminating.

The Rawlings-Blake administration plans to propose bigger property tax breaks for industrial properties in Southeast Baltimore — including the site of a new Amazon warehouse — to bring more jobs to the area.

Willard Hackerman's well-lived life

Friends and family remembered philanthropist and Whiting-Turner Co. CEO Willard Hackerman on Tuesday as a loyal and smart businessman who was generous with his time and money.

Willard Hackerman, the longtime president and CEO of the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company and a prominent philanthropist, has died. He was 95.

Both as a developer and philanthropist, the late Willard Hackerman had a profound impact on his beloved Baltimore

The new and redesigned spaces at University of Maryland Shock Trauma accommodate the most sophisticated equipment and processes that speed the flow of care, according to those who work there.

Money-losing hotel may yet turn a profit, consultant finds, but Baltimore's lucrative convention business still at risk without more meeting space

Lack of modern, NBA-sized arena big obstacle to Baltimore attracting team

Hudson's Corner Column

Visit Baltimore officials and others in the industry say the city needs more exhibition space and a new arena or it risks falling behind in the lucrative convention market

"Who here is from Mars?" was one of the first questions asked by Donald Thomas, director of the Willard Hackerman Academy of Mathematics and Science at Towson University, to the nearly 150 folks young and old who were at Harford Day School for Tuesday night's Science Cafe gathering

It promises to be an out of this world experience when a former astronaut visits Harford Day School on Tuesday, March 12 to talk about the latest things humankind has learned about the next world over, Mars.

Current operator SMG is the winning bidder for a new five-year contract to run 1st Mariner Arena and oversee its potential renaming, according to a memo from the city's top purchasing agent.

In spite of its success, 1st Mariner Arena is in a period of transition that could lead, in the near future, to it being renamed, handed off to a new management company and even demolished.

When President Barack Obama comes to Baltimore for a fundraiser Tuesday at an Inner Harbor hotel, he'll first stop at the home of an Owings Mills developer who has kept a remarkably low profile despite having poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into Democratic campaigns over the past decade.