Bryan Sears

Maryland's Democratic governor is pressing forward with an effort to redraw the state's congressional districts, despite opposition from a key legislative leader of his own party.

Maryland's Human Services secretary insisted to lawmakers that he and his staff are working to transform an agency that was the subject of a scathing audit and responsible for the care of a teen in foster care who died living in a Baltimore hotel.

Gov. Wes Moore will announce Monday that Department of Service and Civic Innovation Secretary Paul Monteiro will leave the position he has held since 2023, and be replaced by Jonny Dorsey, a Moore deputy chief of staff on Nov. 12.

Local social services agencies have been directed by the secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Services to end the practice of housing foster care children in unlicensed facilities, including hotels.

Federal workers who are on a state tax payment plan can ask to have their payments deferred during the ongoing federal government shutdown, the comptroller's office announced Monday.

A legislative panel signaled an interest in making changes to dozens of professional oversight boards housed within the Maryland Department of Health, after complaining of a lack of accountability and repeat findings on the boards by auditors.

The battle over Maryland's lucrative lottery contract is headed to court. Scientific Games wants a judge to intervene in a bidding process that saw it lose the contract to Intralot, get the contract back, only to have it stripped away again by the state.

Maryland will not be able to enforce part of a 2021 law that allowed it to obscure the costs of a digital ad tax from consumers who were paying it, after a federal judge said that violated the free speech rights of the companies forced to collect the taxes.

The Attorney General’s Office is looking for a new leader for its police oversight unit, after its top two staffers resigned in the wake of a circuit court judge dismissing the first case the office brought against two officers in connection with a fatal chase.

A former top aide to two state Senate leaders is returning to Annapolis as budget secretary. Yaakov "Jake" Weissmann, currently a vice president at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, succeeds Helene Grady, who is stepping down