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Akron Fire reports three people were injured Tuesday morning in a house fire in the city’s Fairlawn Heights neighborhood. Two occupants of the home at 2147

Akron City Council has approved the city’s 2026 capital budget, a $341.9 million spending plan that puts a major focus on water and sewer upgrades as

First responders throughout Ohio are getting extra “Eyes in the Sky” to help with traffic and other emergencies. The Ohio Statewide Drone First Responder (DFR) Pilot

A Summit County man will spend years in prison after being convicted on multiple drug trafficking charges connected to a fatal overdose in Cuyahoga Falls. Summit

Are we not men (and women), who want to see Devo perform live  in Akron on June 3? Why yes.  Yes, we are, and tickets go

Emergency Department operations aren’t quite back to normal yet at Cleveland Clinic-Akron General, in downtown Akron, after a extremely cold temperatures caused a City of Akron

A Toledo man is facing federal charges after authorities say he threatened to kill the Vice President during a recent visit to Northwest Ohio—and investigators say

Cleveland Clinic Akron General Emergency Department operations are still not quite back to normal after a big water main break near their downtown campus, which caused