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The St. Mary’s County Board of Elections has released its canvassing schedule for mail-in and provisional ballots ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The pre-Election Day mail-in ballot canvass begins Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 9 a.m., with a tentative second session set f

An ICE agent raises a baton to strike a protester Friday outside a house in Frederick. (Screenshot from Hagerstown Rapid Response video)Elected officials were demanding answers Tuesday after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement confrontation with protesters in Frederick turned violent over the wee

Brooke Landry, left, an SAV expert with Maryland's Department of Natural Resources who chairs the Chesapeake Bay program work group on underwater grasses, speaks with an attendee during a kayaking trip to the Susquehanna Flats on July 24, 2026. (Photo by Christine Condon/ Maryland Matters)Aerial sur

Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-4th) speaks at an Aug. 25, 2025, rally in Baltimore in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, standing behind Ivey, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador earlier in the year. (Photo by William J. Ford/Maryland Matters)Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-4th) will join Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) next wee

The Maryland State Board of Elections office in Annapolis. (File photo by Danielle E. Gaines/Maryland Matters)Sam Husseini’s name will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot as a Green Party candidate for Maryland’s 4th District seat in Congress, after state election officials certified his candidacy this week

Assistant Attorney General Daniel Kobrin argued to the Maryland Supreme Court Thursday that a proposed constitutional amendment on redistricting can go to voters this fall. Behind Kobrin, Republican delegates and senators who challenged the amendment listen to arguments. (Screenshot, Supreme Court o

AFSCME Council 3 President Patrick Moran speaks Thursday at a rally outside University System of Maryland headquarters in Baltimore on July 23, 2026. (Photo by Will Hammann/Maryland Matters)A state employees’ union has reached a deal with the governor and the state university system after the univer

A Maryland Transportation Authority toll plaza in 2020. (Photo courtesy Maryland Transportation Authority)The agency that oversees the state’s toll roads and bridges has failed to collect more than $818 million in tolls and fees it was owed, according to a new audit. The audit released Tuesday finds

State transportation officials said an updated draft of the six-year plan for road and transit projects will focus on core areas of safety, maintenance and economic development and will include no new projects. (File photo Maryland Matters)Maryland will spend marginally fewer dollars on roads and tr

The 10-year Blueprint for Maryland's Future education reforms are ambitious, but it's proving to be a challenge for local school systems to meet those goals. (Photo by Danielle E. Gaines/Maryland Matters)It’s back to school and high hopes. Teachers will work tirelessly — but they won’t get the help

Transmission lines in Louisa County, Va. (Photo by Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury)By Valerie Bonk Pepco customers in Maryland will still see their electric bills go up, but by far less than the utility had requested after state regulators rejected more than half of the utility’s proposed rate increase

Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox, right, and Gov. Wes Moore (D) will share a stage for their only debate of the election on Oct. 6 on Maryland Public Television. (Photos by Christine Condon/Maryland Matters)Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) and two-time Republican nominee Dan Cox (R) are set to sq

The Dorchester County Circuit Court building in Cambridge. (Photo Bryan P. Sears/Maryland Matters)The Maryland General Assembly violated the state constitution and the Declaration of Rights and failed to follow election laws when it passed a proposed redistricting amendment to the state constitution

They're not steamfitters, but they are workers on a data center under construction in North Dakota this spring. To Steamfitters UA Local 602, data centers mean jobs, and if you oppose them you shouldn't come to the union looking for financial or political support, the union said. (Photo by Dan Koeck

A construction worker descends a stairway Wednesday at the construction site for the replacement Francis Scott Key Bridge. Crews are continuing to drive piles into the Patapsco riverbed for the new bridge as the state seeks new contractors for the bridge's construction. (Photo by Christine Condon/Ma

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court in Annapolis. (File photo by Bryan P. Sears/Maryland Matters)Maryland Republicans challenging a proposed state constitutional amendment on how congressional districts are drawn won an initial courtroom skirmish Wednesday, when an Anne Arundel County Circuit judge fo

Four of the eight yurts at the new Savage Highlands State Park will be available to rent through October, after which they will likely close for the season and reopen in 2027. (Photo by Christine Condon/Maryland Matters)The yurts are open for business. This Friday, the gates will officially open at

Hispanic student enrollment in Maryland public schools fell last year, the first year of the Trump administration, after growing at an average rate of 4.7% a year since pandemic-era lows. (Photo by Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Stock ImagesHispanic enrollment in Maryland public schools began to decline during

As students across Maryland head back to school in the coming weeks, the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) is reminding motorists to slow down, stay alert and know when to stop for school buses. Each school day, more than 600,000 students rely on school buses t

Governor Wes Moore kicked off his 2026 reelection campaign tour, highlighting state investments in public schools, green technology jobs, and record state surplus management.