Electric customers in Baltimore Gas and Electric’s area can expect average increases of $21 per month, or about $250 a year, on their bills starting next June, on top of previously announced rate hikes and transmission line costs, a state agency that represents ratepayers is warning. The Office of People’s Counsel, which advocates for utility customers, blames poor planning by the regional grid operator, both for new transmission projects and in managing wholesale power markets, and warns that consumers will be hit by years of unprecedented cost increases.

Fans of a popular Fells Point Farmers Market vendor can now get its food during the week with the opening of its first brick-and-mortar shop. Arepi, a Venezuelan vendor serving arepas, opened at 1616 Thames St. on Aug. 8. The restaurant replaces the former Luna Garden, which closed in August 2023 after just one year in business.

Senate President Bill Ferguson said Thursday during the Maryland Association of Counties’ annual conference that, in spite of recent cuts made to the active budget, he doesn’t foresee any more major reductions in light of Maryland’s fiscal shortfall. “I think there’s going to be serious, active budget management to make sure that every dollar that goes out is being spent well,” Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat, said in Ocean City on Thursday afternoon.

The Republican National Convention kicks off Monday in this lakefront city, to renominate former President Donald Trump and his yet-to-be-announced running mate, during an unprecedented moment in U.S. politics. What was meant to be a celebration of Trump and his political allies, with pomp, partisanship and parties, has turned into something else – but no one is exactly sure what.

Maryland officials on both sides of the aisle are expressing support for victims and outrage at the act of political violence after the shooting Saturday that injured former President Donald Trump and left two dead, including the suspected gunman. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms what has happened in Pennsylvania today to President Trump,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), said in a statement. “Political violence is never acceptable. Ever.”

A citizen’s group seeking term limits for the county executive in Montgomery County, Maryland, has submitted more than 20,000 petition signatures — more than twice as many as needed to place the question on the November ballot. Only 10,000 signatures were needed for the question to be placed on the ballot, and the Committee for Better Government turned in 12,130 signatures in June.

Brunswick Mayor Nathan Brown, left, and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan walk in front of a mural in Brunswick during Hogan’s visit to the town on Sunday. Hogan is running as the Republican nominee for the US Senate against the Democratic nominee, Angela Alsobrooks.

The investment will come in two phases as offshore wind development ramps up in Maryland.

Tired of getting stuck in traffic jams as you try to “go down the ocean, hon”? Not a fan of crowded beaches and hot sand? Afraid to drive across the Bay Bridge? You can visit the ocean without leaving Baltimore and at the same time see evidence of our geological kinship with Europe.