The 2025 legislative session was a slog, but Maryland Matters staff still had one thing to do: We fanned out to talk to ...

A key advisory panel recommended that the state's property tax stay unchanged next year, at 11.2 cents per $100 in assessed ...

Jessica Brady Reader is one of the many advocates who spend days, months, even years working for bills they believe will ...

A sobering report on racial maternal health disparities in Montgomery County, a Metro-oriented groundbreaking in Prince ...

The governor was disappointed, some of the biggest bills got put off to the last day, last-minute wrangling doomed some bills, and it all ended at midnight with balloons and confetti to mark the end ...

After it was stalled for most of the day, a watered-down package of protections for Maryland's immigrant community was rushed through by lawmakers with just minutes to spare before the midnight end of ...

The General Assembly’s energy package didn’t quite come down to the wire, but it was close. With about 10 hours remaining in the 90-day legislative session, lawmakers gave final passage to a trio of ...

House and Senate fiscal leaders reached final agreement Friday on a compromise budget that includes $1.6 billion in annual taxes and ends a one-year experiment with a racing authority tasked with ...

Hours after the close of the 2025 session, Gov. Wes Moore (D) and legislative leaders signed dozens of bills — many focused on work force and employment issues — into law.

When administration officials began planning Gov. Wes Moore’s first foreign trade mission, they “did not anticipate that we would be in the middle of a trade war,” but that made it all the more ...