Maryland’s stricter gun laws await Moore’s signature

The total package places limits on where a gun can be carried, “creates among the strongest gun violence prevention legislation in the country.”

Anthony Brown elected new Maryland attorney general

Anthony Brown’s victory over Republican Michael Peroutka was announced shortly after polls closed. He becomes the state’s first African-American attorney general.

Democracy, inflation, political dissatisfaction drives Marylanders to polls

Before Election Day, 781,291 Marylanders had already cast their votes through early voting and mail-in ballots, according to the Maryland State Board of Elections.

Sen. Will Smith to be deployed to Afghanistan in March

Sen. Will Smith, an officer in the United States Naval Reserve, is scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan on March 29 in support of Operation Resolute Support.

Hogan, Jealous end standoff, agree to single debate

After a long standoff, Maryland’s incumbent Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and his Democratic challenger, former NAACP President Ben Jealous, agreed Thursday to a single debate hour-long debate on Sept. 24.

In Maryland politics, the war on rural is dead — long live the war on rural?

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — In 2009, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley closed the visitor center at the Sideling Hill cut, the symbolic gateway to Western Maryland, as a cost-saving effort. Some saw the move as personal, or at least confirmation of…