Getting elected by the voters alone is not sufficient to qualify a person to serve as a member of the Maryland General Assembly. Before...

Moore signed the executive order during a LGBTQIA+ reception Monday evening, following his recent proclamation recognizing June as Pride Month in Maryland.

Gov. Wes Moore (D) said a cache was necessary because of federal court challenges to Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug mifepristone.

With Wes Moore at the helm, Democrats sweep statewide contests, winning races for governor, comptroller and attorney general.

Governor-elect taps five for key positions as transition intensifies.

DOJ charging documents allegedly show video footage of the Salisbury resident breaching the U.S. Capitol, scuffling with police during the insurrection.

Five months after receiving a diagnosis, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-8th) announced that he completed chemotherapy treatment and his cancer is “in remission.”

Maryland law requires that schools keep police on campus. But law enforcement officers don’t make schools safer.

Comptroller-elect Brooke Lierman (D) unveiled on Thursday the leaders of a transition team that will help her prepare to take the helm of the state’s...

A member of the Hogan administration who had been posting statements, photos and memes on social media that appear to applaud the 17-year-old vigilante...

The new law requires personal identification numbers for all unserialized firearms and unfinished frames and receivers, commonly referred to as ghost guns.

Gov. Wes Moore signed several public safety bills into law including those on guns and strengthening the attorney general's office.

For the last three days in Annapolis, a well-choreographed pas de trois has unfolded in the Maryland State House. The two houses of the...

The Maryland General Assembly voted on Saturday to override Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s vetoes of abortion access and paid leave bills, enacting the...

Maryland's senior senator announced his plans during a Law Day speech on civics and civility at the Baltimore County Courthouse in Towson.

Maryland Matters is announcing that Deputy Editor Danielle E. Gaines will become editor of the website on Wednesday. She’ll replace Josh Kurtz, the Maryland...

When a child is arrested by a police officer stationed in a Baltimore City public school, they are handcuffed, placed in cages, photographed and...

The FBI published a nearly five-page document that states the agency's new headquarters should be located in Northern Virginia.

On May 28, Maryland Matters reporter Danielle E. Gaines and her husband welcomed their daughter Leela into the world. May 28 was Danielle’s due...

They are running against Republicans who have described as unelectable extremists. But Maryland Democrats came together on Monday to declare that they will campaign hard between now and November —...

Reading materials that embrace a wide range of people of diverse backgrounds and identities, including LGBTQ+ characters, is a good thing, advocates write.

Selling a child for sex is a crime; being the child shouldn’t be, the executive director of TurnAround Inc. writes.

It’s really difficult to get to Annapolis, Maryland without a car, and it doesn’t get much easier once you’re there. The consequences of those limitations are especially apparent during the three-m...

It wasn’t until Mckayla Wilkes felt that she had been personally harmed by the policies supported by U.S. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer...

For what is believed to be the first time in 40 years, the Maryland General Assembly Women’s Caucus has taken an official position to...

Brian Frosh set to retire after battling polluters, fraudsters and Trump

The moves come after red states have curtailed or criminalized gender-affirming care.

With Maryland’s 2022 primary elections exactly one year away, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) endorsed Del. Brooke E. Lierman (D-Baltimore City) for...

The Social Security Administration will get a new commissioner after the U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm former Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley for...

Franca Muller Paz wakes up at 5:30 in the morning to prepare for her Spanish classes on Zoom. Although most of her 35 students...

A U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee panel on Thursday examined why thousands of books, predominantly written by marginalized authors, have been banned from...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Prince George's Community College to reward the school's CDL program with $173,640.

An unlikely new assignment for a cerebral, nimble, strategic progressive from Montgomery County.

Advocates are pressing for a bill that would remove marijuana odor as the basis for reasonable suspicion for a police investigation.

Just after Labor Day, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) announced that she was changing the way the person holding the position of...

Advocates for the revival of a scuttled Baltimore-area subway line said on Wednesday they welcome efforts by Maryland’s U.S. senators to help get the...

House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) shook up committee leadership Tuesday, appointing House Judiciary Committee Vice Chair Vanessa E. Atterbeary (D-Howard) as chair of the House Ways...

Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) tweeted Monday morning that he’s tested positive for COVID-19.

Progressives for Progress is a new political action committee created and funded completely by real estate interests.

Case echoes charges faced by Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins

Dissident Republicans in the U.S. House voted with Democrats on Tuesday to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a historic move that came just nine...

Del. Robbyn Lewis calls for aggressive action to address threats from a warming planet, and urges fellow officials to pressure federal and international policymakers.

Griffith's resignation will create a series of political dominoes. Senate President Bill Ferguson will have to pick a new chair of the Finance Committee, and Prince George's Democratic leaders will...

The bill would require the Attorney General’s office and professional boards be notified when someone is eligible for compensation after being wrongfully convicted.

With billions of dollars heading the state's way in new federal infrastructure funding, policymakers hope some of their ambitions for MARC can be realized.

The scent of cannabis served as a focal point before Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, with one focus on motor vehicle stops by police.

The option for remote participation was an extraordinary expansion of democracy.

Former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes ― a staunch defender of the Chesapeake Bay and cosponsor of far-reaching eponymous legislation that reformed federal securities laws...

When Lisa Harris Jones started lobbying in Annapolis in the late 1990s, she was almost always one of the few Black women in a...

Wes Moore, the Baltimore born and bred author, anti-poverty advocate and social entrepreneur, is actively contemplating seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 2022....

Nine Maryland Matters reporters and contributing writers were awarded for excellence this week by the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association. In a virtual ceremony that concluded...

Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) said Monday that Maryland has secured 5,000 COVID-19 testing kits from a South Korean company. The 5,000 kits...

The Maryland House of Delegates voted Saturday to approve the Trans Health Equity Act — a bill that just a year ago disappeared from...

Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) wants Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan (R) to extend the state’s moratorium on evictions until next January, giving lawmakers...

The escalating anti-Asian hate crimes, including the tragic killings in Atlanta and the recent vandalism of several local Asian restaurants around the Lunar New...

Gov. Wes Moore (D) joined governors from 19 states across the U.S. in a new Reproductive Freedom Alliance to safeguard and improve abortion and...

A Baltimore senator asks if its possible to find common ground with Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. on policies that indirectly impact public safety.

The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee voted Friday night to pass the repeal of the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights out of the committee.

Lawmakers will consider a bill to prohibit governors from using apps that automatically destroy their text messages.

The U.S. House voted Tuesday to remove from the Capitol a bust of the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, a Marylander who...

After four hours of debate and a series of failed attempts by Republicans to amend it, a sweeping climate change bill won preliminary approval...

The Biden administration has turned to an experienced Maryland policy and political hand to fill a key environmental position. The White House announced Tuesday...

In a tersely-worded letter to the Maryland Department of Transportation, the U.S. Navy served notice that the state should not plan on gaining control...

In a voice vote Thursday night, state Del. Erek L. Barron (D-Prince George’s) won U.S. Senate confirmation to become U.S. attorney for Maryland, two...

Former Govs. Paterson and Patrick highlight time leading their respective states and even a few challenges on the job.

The Maryland State Education Association announced Thursday that Sean Johnson, who currently serves as the union’s legislative and political director, will take over as...

Del. C.T. Wilson offers emotional testimony in sponsoring legislation to allow survivors of child sexual abuse to file civil suits against alleged perpetrators at any time.

Maryland universities, the Univ. of Md. Medical System and Montgomery County form medical research partnership.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s new headquarters will be in Maryland, a significant victory for the state following years of jockeying against Virginia and...

On May 1, 2019, as the House of Delegates gathered in Annapolis to select a new leader three weeks after the sudden death of...

Lawmakers gathered to commemorate the enactment of a mental health services expansion bill named in honor of U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskins’ Late son, Tommy Raskin.

Moore names three deputy chiefs of staff and an assistant chief of staff, meaning he's revealed many of the people who will work on the State House 2nd floor.

A regional transportation panel dealt a potentially crippling blow to one of the Hogan administration’s top priorities — the widening on I-495 and I-270,...