Pastel-colored dresses for the girls and dark suits for the boys were in this year at Oakland Mills High School’s senior prom. Renting a stretch limousine was out.

Anne Arundel County students who eat breakfast at school may soon have to do without whole-grain cinnamon rolls.

Frederick County Sheriff’s Deputies have become the first Maryland jurisdiction to check the immigration status of people they arrest, a move authorities say is a necessary tool for policing but one that has sparked an outcry from advocates who say the policy is costly and encourages ethnic profiling.

Decadent desserts gleam from behind counters encased in wood and metal: chocolate mousse cake covered in chocolate shavings, tarts with marshmallows on top, coconut tiramisu.

Gov. Martin O'Malley has asked the U.S. commerce secretary to declare the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab fishery a federal disaster, a move officials hope will generate $15 million to create jobs for watermen.

Baltimore City Council leaders said Thursday they will attempt to restore a property tax rate cut that Mayor Sheila Dixon’s administration pulled from the city’s proposed budget last month.

Lawmakers are headed into a showdown over new Medicaid rules with tens of millions of dollars for Maryland at stake.

Eight-year-old Justus Brown has had allergy problems before, but nothing like he experienced Sunday on the way to church in Towson — an attack that his parents blame on last week's record pollen counts.

Congressional negotiators have reached a deal on the farm bill that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay, lawmakers said Monday.

Towson Ford is gone. So are Baltimore's Apple Lincoln Mercury and Miller Motors Buick.