Adam Willis

Share this via... As Maryland politicians vie for reelection this year, they have perhaps no higher priority than convincing the public they've done everything in their power to bring down soaring energy prices.

Despite the company's multimillion-dollar messaging campaign, though, the idea landed with a thud in Annapolis this session. Exelon, whose subsidiaries include Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. and Potomac Electric Power Co., instead became a punching bag — in one case literally — for Democrats looking to establish populist bona fides in an election year defined by affordability.

Top Maryland Democrats outlined a deal Monday to offer consumers swift relief on soaring energy bills.

The increased costs, which were approved by the city's spending board Wednesday, will be paid to Synagro Technologies, a company that dries sludge from the city's two wastewater treatment plants and turns it into fertilizer.

Share this via... After two attempts to hold a public swim in the Baltimore harbor last year were cancelled due to persistent rain, organizers plan to try something different this summer.

Testing sites across the harbor — an area that stretches from downtown to the Middle Branch — ranged from “poor” to “fair,” according to 2025 water quality data published Wednesday by the nonprofit Blue Water Baltimore.

The settlement with one of the country's largest homebuilders comes four years after sediment downstream from the Ridgley's Reserve development in Harford County repeatedly clouded much of the Gunpowder River.

Curators behind a new exhibition ask Baltimore to picture the Jones Falls in 50 years. Does it have a highway on top? How about gondolas?

The proposal, backed by Mayor Brandon Scott, City Council President Zeke Cohen and Comptroller Bill Henry, comes after bondholders downgraded Baltimore’s debt rating on its sewer system this year.

After weather-related cancellations last year, Baltimore’s Harbor Splash returns Sunday in Fells Point as organizers launch a series of pop-up swims aimed at getting more people back into the harbor.