The House Environment and Transportation Committee approved a sweeping energy bill Thursday that aims to reduce customers’ soaring utility costs by restoring competition and retreating on some ...

Hundreds of developmental disability advocates rallied on Lawyers Mall Thursday to persuade lawmakers to restore what could be a massive budget cut to the agency that oversees services – what one ...

Tired of seeing drug commercials on TV as health care costs continue to rise? So are advocates, who want to remove a state tax break for pharmaceutical ads, arguing that those funds would be better ...

The state's rockfish season will start in April as scheduled, after it was almost derailed this week by a legislative ...

Melvin A. "Mickey" Steinberg, Maryland's fifth lieutenant governor and a former Senate president known for his political acumen and sense of humor, died Tuesday. He was 92.

A federal district judge has ordered construction to stop for at least the next two weeks at the massive Washington County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to convert into a ...

The House approved three child care bills Wednesday, including measures to lift a yearlong freeze on enrollment in a state child care scholarship program for as many as 3,700 families on a ...

Maryland's revenue picture improved by nearly $250 million over two years, buoyed largely by a factor that can't be anticipated — people dying. The numbers from the Board of Revenue Estimates also ...

Republicans did their best to challenge a series of immigrant-protection bills before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday ...

Ande Kolp is executive director of The Arc Maryland. The statewide advocacy organization was formed in 1960 by parents who ...

Laura Howell is CEO of the Maryland Association of Community Services, a statewide nonprofit association of over 125 developmental disability provider organizations. Her members provide residential, ...

For thousands of Marylanders and their families who rely on support from the Developmental Disabilities Administration, last year's budget cuts had real impact, write Ande Kolp and Laura Howell, and a ...