The chairman of the University of Akron's counseling department is heading to Myanmar this week. She's part of a relative trickle of relief teams allowed into the country since a cyclone killed tens of thousands. WKSU's M.L. Schultze and Tom Parkinson report.
Akron's Soap Box Derby needs some help and Mayor Don Plusquellic says he'll do what he can to keep the 74-year old event going. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports.
The Cleveland Orchestra announced Tuesday that it's a step closer to selling more than 600 acres of Blossom Music Center to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court sided today with Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams in a long legal battle over who's responsible for removing lead paint from homes. The verdict is a blow to other states that want Sherwin-Williams and two other manufacturers to pay billions of dollars to clean-up the toxic paint.
WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports.
Ohio's senior senator kicked off his "high gas prices" tour in northeast Ohio today, Wenesday, with a call for more government support of alternative energy and more domestic drilling for oil and gas. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports.
Ralph Regula's political career has pretty much paralleled the founding and growth of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. And that's no coincidence. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports.
Ohio's senior senator kicked off his "high gas prices" tour in northeast Ohio today, Wenesday, with a call for more government support of alternative energy and more domestic drilling for oil and gas. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports.
Akron's historic Howe House has moved. The building headed three blocks west of its downtown Akron home today to its new location near the Ohio and Erie Canal towpath. WKSU's Tom Parkinson reports.
Ralph Regula's tenure in Congress parallels the birth and growth of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. That timing is no accident. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports.
This weekend, Chapel Hill joined the growing list of northeastern Ohio malls limiting teens by hours, times and requirements for chaperones. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports.
Emerging technology in Northeast Ohio could make the bridges you drive on anywhere in the country safer. A Twinsburg company is helping develop an electronic sensor that could prevent collapses like the one that killed 13 people in Minnesota last year. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports.
With gas prices topping 4-dollars a gallon, most of us are trying to find ways to improve our mileage. Some techniques involve how and when you fill your tank. We explore some of the facts and fiction behind filling-up to save gas.
WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports.
Presidential candidate John McCain told autoworkers at the GM plant in Lordstown today that he wants to replicate their success in building more energy-efficient cars. He says that's one way American workers can compete in a global market. But some workers say McCain's position on free trade stands in the way of economic growth. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports.
Cleveland's law director says today's Supreme Court's ruling on individual gun rights has no impact on any city laws, including Cleveland's ban the use of assault weapons. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports.
A developer plans to buy the downtown Canton YMCA and convert most of it into trendy loft apartments. But the Y board says it will spend $3 million to rent part of the space and continue to serve families downtown.
A partnership between Kent State University and the Cleveland Botanical Garden is literally bearing fruit. An experiment is pitting a conventional glass greenhouse against a greenhouse made from liquid crystal panels. And the plants inside show the liquid crystal greenhouse is performing a little better in the study's early stages.
WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports.
