Not everyone can say they like going to work. But many of the people who work for the companies and organizations mentioned in this section do. The Baltimore Sun proudly presents Baltimore's Top Workplaces, listing the region's top companies based on confidential surveys of their employees.

City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young has stripped Councilwoman Rochelle "Rikki" Spector of most of her committee assignments after she cast the only vote against two bills he favored.

Don't let holiday shopping - and the pressure of finding the perfect gift - stress you out. The Baltimore Sun's gift guide is here to save the day (and your sanity).

No one needs to tell Ravens fans that wide receiver Steve Smith roams the earth fearlessly. On the field, the five-time Pro-Bowler is afraid of no one and nothing.

The top three winners: Isabel's Cherry Date Skillet Cookies, Lemon Rosemary Ginger Cookies and Mocha Toffee Keks.

Developers are scheduled to present designs to the city next week for a major mixed use development with a hotel and apartment on a prime Pratt Street parking lot across from Harborplace — one of the last undeveloped parcels close to the water.

The city could turn Cross Street Market over to a new manager next year, with the hope of remaking the down-on-its-heels South Baltimore institution into a vibrant shopping destination.

A push to reduce state taxes on some businesses gained new momentum with last month's election of Republican Larry Hogan as governor.

We are a nation being driven by video images.

You may now bookmark the Inner Harbor for your yearly Baltimore Book Festival fix. 

A 22-year-old newcomer, U.K. soul-pop singer Sam Smith, joined Grammy mainstays Beyonce and Pharrell Williams with six nominations each on Friday for the 57th annual Grammy Awards.

Nick Markakis' four-year, $44-million deal with the Braves became official on Friday, and he met the media in Atlanta for the first time.

Extending an amazing streak of defensive excellence Friday night, the UMBC men's soccer team is going to a place it has never before been.

Old Mill won 11 straight games to advance to Friday's Class 4A state final, then ran into a hot offense and came up one win short of their third state title since 2009.

As a physician, patient and an American citizen, I call upon the United States Senate to act swiftly and decisively to confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy for surgeon general. To hold the confirmation of a highly respected health care professional for more than a year is both inexcusable and negligent and...

In the past few weeks there has been a lot of discussion about President Barack Obama's response to the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. Each failure to win indictment for the officers who killed these unarmed black men has left millions of Americans feeling insecure about local law...

The events in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., are tragic on many levels. Two families have lost sons to violence at the hands of police officers performing their duties. On a macro level, the shooting of Michael Brown and the chokehold restraint of Eric Garner by white police officers...

Almost 52,000 people have enrolled in health plans on the state's online insurance marketplace, which launched Nov. 15, exchange officials reported Friday.

The BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport is the healthiest airport in the country when it comes to dining, with more than 90 percent of its restaurants offering nutritious options, according to the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Parents welcoming a new baby into their family are no longer content to count fingers and toes to assess their infant's state of health: In a survey released Thursday, nearly half said they would be "very" or "extremely" interested in having their newborn's genome sequenced, and fully a third...

Baltimore's once-extensive speed camera program failed in part because the city didn't have enough staff to monitor the rush of tickets generated, three officials testified before a City Council investigative committee Monday.

New rules proposed by the State Board of Elections would forbid candidates from dipping into their political funds to pay for such things as foreign travel, tuition or mounting a legal defense to charges unrelated to the campaign.

It's no secret that two proponents of police body cameras — Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young — are at loggerheads over the details of how to implement the program.

When an episode is titled “Blood Bath,” you kind of expect a lot. You don’t necessarily expect it to be literal, though.

Craft cocktails are the star attraction at Federal Hill's new Bookmakers Cocktail Club, which makes its own bitters, syrups and tonics and carries 100 types of whiskey. Bartenders whip up 15 specialty cocktails with poetic names like What Is and What Should Never Be, a blend of cognac, rum,...

When Creme Restaurant & Lounge opened in Mount Vernon in 2010, Ezra Tilaye and his mother, Tegist Ayalew, seemingly had a blueprint to follow.