Montgomery County News

"If terminally ill, mentally competent adults choose to end their life, they should be able to seek a life-ending dose of medicine from their physician," Mizeur said in a policy proposal released late Tuesday.

Police call it a safe kind of theft, but it's sure hurting bank accounts across the Metro area.

The group representing Montgomery developers has accused the county of accumulating large cash surpluses through excessive fees for building permits and inspections necessary to complete construction projects.

A Montgomery County Circuit Judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 25 years for robbing a Burtonsville home on Thanksgiving 2012, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced.

Kai McMahon, 6, of Takoma Park pulls herself up a tree with the help of a harness and a rope as part of the activities for children at the Arbor Day celebration held by the City of Takoma Park and Montgomery County Parks at the Takoma Park Community Center on Saturday.

A bear was reported near Damascus along the Magruder Branch Trail on Monday, said Lt.

A fire ignited by power tool sparks caused an estimated $1 million in damage to an industrial building in Rockville on Monday, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer.

A confrontation in a Maryland delegate's Annapolis office on the last day of the General Assembly session has links to two candidates running for the Montgomery County Council's 5th District seat.

In 2008, a water main break caused River Road in Montgomery County, Maryland , to live up to its name.

The search for the next superintendent of Anne Arundel County's public schools has been an exercise filled with numbers.

Two adults and a baby were seriously injured after a hit-and-run crash set their car on fire in Rockville.

A car carrying two adults and an 8-month-old baby went up in flames early Saturday morning after it was hit by another vehicle, according to WTOP reports.

Now, the real fun starts. It's a mad, mad dash to the June 24 gubernatorial primary as the many undecided, unimpressed Democrats try to answer a what's-worse question that goes like this: What's worse, a lieutenant governor who "squibbed the kickoff" of Obamacare or an attorney general who did nothing about a beach-house party where teenagers ... (more)

Check out these stunning houses for sale from around Montgomery County. Bethesda This extraordinary stone and shingle home by Gibson Builders with a Nantucket influence has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

Montgomery County's "high-poverty" and "low-poverty" high schools have moved farther apart over the past several years in terms of both academic performance and student demographics, according to a county government report released Tuesday.

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue crews are at the scene of a house fire in North Potomac, Md.

A suspect was arrested this week for a rape that occurred nearly four years ago near a bus stop in Montgomery County.

The Bethesda father of three sought by local and federal authorities for allegedly using a hammer to kill his wife, mother and sons in 1976 is likely living in Italy, according to WTOP.

A Rockville man who reportedly fled the country after the 2010 rape of a pregnant woman at knifepoint was arrested after authorities learned he had returned to the area.

Montgomery County Police are looking for a man wanted for the 2010 rape and robbery of a pregnant woman in Rockville.