Mayor Brandon Scott

Thursday’s overdose awareness day events advocate for prevention sites, youth education

Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott joins Midday live from the Summer 2023 Maryland Association of Counties (MACo) Conference.

In order to have weekly recycling by the first quarter of 2024, officials from the Department of Public Works say they will need 20 new crews and 30 new garbage trucks.

With a bit of creativity, undergraduate students built and designed complete escape room kits that can go out and be kept in libraries.

Mayor Scott says that while parents must take accountability for their kids, the city will expand mentorship programs that guide young men towards productive pathways.

Mayor Brandon Scott launched the Group Violence Reduction Strategy in January 2022. Partnering with Youth Advocate Programs Inc. (YAP), and Roca, its purpose is to reduce violent crime by offering services and mentorship to high-risk individuals.

Baltimore City leaders joined state and federal officials to tout the progress made to tackle the city's homelessness crisis.

The city's deputy mayor of Equity, Health & Human Services discusses her outreach efforts to youth, community leaders and the BPD as the city's targeted squeegeeing ban goes into effect.

Deanta Dorsey, 16, was killed and four other teenage boys injured in a mass shooting outside a Popeyes restaurant at the shopping center, which is across the street from Edmondson-Westside High School.

The city's former interim police commissioner discusses his recent appointment by Mayor Scott as Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, and the crime-fighting priorities in his new role.