Montgomery County News

Dan Gross/The Gazette Watkins Mill Road west of Rt 355 is a dead end that is currently used for parking by construction crews working nearby.

Almost one-third of all Montgomery County residents are renters, said Matthew Losak, the executive director of Montgomery County Renters Alliance , but they are underrepresented in policy decisions.

A Bethesda man who was The Washington Post's 2008 High School Hockey Coach of the Year faces charges of theft in Maryland and Virginia.

Opponents of building the Purple Line along the Capital Crescent Trail will be out in full force this Saturday morning for the annual "Save the Trail" 5-kilometer run along the shaded trail through the woods.

I was listening to the local NPR affiliate today and one of the stories was about how Montgomery County Maryland's Division of Solid Waste Services acknowledges best practice waste recycling by County businesses each year .

The lights lower as sixth-graders Layla White, from left, Ayana Akli and Tram Vo prepare to watch the Silver Spring International Middle School's Film Festival on Wednesday.

All nine Montgomery County Council members are expected to vote "yes" on a $4.8 billion budget for fiscal 2014 at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in Rockville.

As of 3 p.m. Wednesday, officers from Montgomery County police department's 1st District will no longer be working from Rockville.

County Executive Isiah Leggett went online Tuesday to answer questions from county residents.

A poll released by Public Policy Polling shows that a large percentage of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of "hipsters," a group of men and women "unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns," according to Merriam Webster.

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett addressed the 20-plus-member Nighttime Economy Task Force on Monday at its first-ever meeting in Silver Spring, BethesdaNow.com reported.

A Maryland man was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon when he was struck by a school bus in Gaithersburg, police said.

A jogger was seriously injured after being hit by an unoccupied school bus in Rockville on Tuesday, Montgomery County police said.

Earlier this year - before robbing eight people at a hotel in January with a sawed-off shotgun - Jackson Julius was preparing to attend an art college in Baltimore.

At a bond review hearing in Montgomery County Circuit Court Tuesday, a judge halved the bond of a man accused of child sex abuse from $500,000 to $250,000. David Fernando Javier Zarayasi , 66, of Royal Bonnet Circle in Montgomery Village, was arrested March 14 and charged with 16 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes.

The increase in Maryland's fuel tax, signed into law by Gov. Martin O'Malley last week, is projected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for Montgomery County road and transit projects.

Montgomery County police are searching for a missing youth from Silver Spring, and they are asking for the public's help.

Montgomery County police are investigating the May 15 robbery of a 7-Eleven store in Silver Spring, and they are asking for help with identifying two suspects shown in surveillance photos.

Composting-the practice of diverting biodegradable waste into fertilizer-is all about the numbers.

When Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro summarized the fiscal 2014 county budget, the words "county," "budget" and "Montgomery" naturally featured prominently in her statement.