James B. Kraft

The Baltimore Police Department has increased overtime spending over the past year amid a struggle to fill vacancies, according to data obtained by The Baltimore Sun. The city spent 40 percent more in the fiscal year through June compared with the year...

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City often cites a lack of funds to explain its refusal to pay nearly $12 million in court-ordered judgments to former public housing residents who suffered permanent lead-paint poisoning as children. But the city's...

The chairman of a City Council committee says he will ask federal officials to push Baltimore's public housing agency to pay a six-figure judgment for lead-paint poisoning, saying the agency had effectively stuck its tongue out by refusing to budge on the...

A day after a hearing with Recreation and Parks officials, residents and City Council members were questioning the mayor's plans for consolidating and renovating or closing the city's 55 recreation centers. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has said that...

Voters who cast ballots in Tuesday's general election will have a chance to weigh in on two issues concerning the city's younger residents. One of the charter amendments would put aside money for repairing and building schools, an initiative inspired...

When Baltimore voters go to polls Tuesday, they will decide on two charter amendments designed to address a pressing problem in the city and a lingering one. The first is an effort to tackle the estimated $2.8 billion in unmet needs for school...

Baltimore elections officials predicted very low turnout at the polls Tuesday, as city residents vote in the general election for mayor and other races. The head of the city Board of Elections said he expected that about half as many ballots would be...

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Democrat Alfred V. Griffin III, Republican Catalina Byrd, Unaffiliated Charlene Tamara Gaskins, Unaffiliated Craig Williams, Unaffiliated Steven H Smith, Republican City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young,...

Two Baltimore City Council candidates were poised to overcome write-in challenges Tuesday, converting their Democratic nominations into general election victories. Councilman Warren Branch of the 13th District was leading write-in challenger Shannon...

 It won’t be built for several years, but the city now knows where its new library will be built.  On Monday, the Aberdeen City Council approved, by a 7-2 margin, the purchase of the old Bethlehem Lutheran Church site for use as a new library....

I applaud Sun writers Erica L. Green and Julie Scharper for their article exploring the poor physical condition of most Baltimore City public school facilities ("Candidates would spend more on schools," Aug. 7). I was, however, disappointed to note...

The Baltimore City Council voted Monday to extend for eight years a law requiring developers to build affordable housing in projects that receive large public subsidies — but not to make the law permanent, as advocates had hoped. The council...