The fee increase represents a reversal of Mayor Scott’s 2023 decision to end franchise fees for BGE in exchange for its capital investments in the network.

After the death of two Baltimore sanitation workers on the job last year, much has been written about solid waste crews’ battles with punishing heat and cold, aging trucks and dilapidated facilities, ...

Back in September, Baltimore officials referenced “detailed modeling” when announcing the city could not meet its 2030 deadline under a federal consent decree to stop raw sewage from overflowing ...

Baltimore City residents and businesses tomorrow will be hit with the second phase of this year’s 19% increase in water and sewage rates – the highest cumulative hike since 2000, according to data ...

A portion of Baltimore’s suburbs, including a shopping complex and business district near the region’s busy airport, has been put under a growth moratorium to control the threat of more wet-weather ...

Hired to fix the mechanical and personnel problems plaguing Baltimore’s sewage treatment plants, Robert G. Hindt has fallen victim to the department’s turmoil. The veteran engineer has been terminated ...

Linda L. Batts was hired by the Department of Public Works in 2019 as its first equity director, charged with rooting out discriminatory employment practices at the agency’s water treatment and solid ...

Kamau M. Marshall abruptly departed today as chief of communications and chief strategist for Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, who hired him six months ago. Marshall confirmed to Fox45 News that he ...

Vaughn Greene Funeral Service’s state permit allows the facility to operate for 120 days before testing for emissions of particulates and metals.

Amid pressure by community residents for limits on the construction of Johns Hopkins University’s sprawling Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) Institute, Baltimore officials have reached ...

Chairing a hearing on the most controversial bill before his Land Use and Transportation Committee, Councilman Ryan Dorsey yesterday announced “we have no intention of voting this bill today” and it ...

But that was the color of the algae-plagued Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool … plus other observations from our foray on Friday, a scorching-hot and surreal day.