Beginning on or about Monday, June 7th, the County’s Department of Recreation & Parks will close the parking lot at Haviland Mill Park in Clarksville to allow for work to begin on the loop trail. Weather permitting, the project is expected to be completed in late fall, early winter 2021.

A Howard County construction project to stabilize the stream banks along approximately 200 linear feet of an unnamed tributary to Deep Run in Elkridge, is scheduled to begin on or about Wednesday, June 9th. Weather permitting, the project is expected to be completed by late September 2021.

Including Best in Category Award for Ellicott City Watershed Master Plan

A Howard County construction project to replace two deteriorating culverts under a portion of Shaffers Mill Road, approximately 650 feet west of Shaffersville Road in Mount Airy. During the project, Shaffers Mill Road at the construction site will be closed to thru traffic. Motorists will follow a clearly marked detour using Shaffersville Road and Florence Road. Weather permitting, the project is expected to be completed by mid-July

Today, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced Jama Acuff as the new Director of the Howard County Department of Corrections beginning May 3rd. 

Today, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball unveiled Dive Bar & Grille as the incoming restaurant at Historic Savage Mill.

Today, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball dedicated the new Biosolids Addition No. 8 at the Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant.

Governor Larry Hogan and First Lady Yumi Hogan joined Howard County Executive Calvin Ball today to tour a vaccine clinic at Bridgeway Church in Columbia.

Howard County Government seeks qualified firms that have demonstrated experience and successful completion of a rock tunnel to submit Expression of Interest for the final design of the Ellicott City Safe and Sound plan's North Tunnel.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball contributes a one-time County contribution of $10 million to the Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) to pay down its Health and Dental Fund deficit, putting HCPSS on track to eliminate its deficit by end of 2021.

17-year-old charged with murder in Dec. 4 homicide.

Acting on tips sent in from national and state hotlines for crimes against children, Howard County police since July 2020 have charged eight adults and three juveniles.

Both were treated at the hospital and released.

Adult male was found with gunshot wound in Columbia.