Wendy DiAlesandro

Two of Portage County’s cities have income tax measures on the November ballot, with Ravenna asking voters to approve an income tax hike from 2.5% to 2.75% and Kent seeking to make permanent a 25-year, .25% increase voters approved in 2013.

Streetsboro City Council is eying excluding registered sex offenders from city-owned playgrounds, parks and recreation facilities.

Shalersville Township trustees tweaked the township’s zoning code on Oct. 6, effectively making it more difficult for Geis Companies and Bitdeer Technologies Group to site a 750-megawatt data center campus on just over 150 acres of Geis-owned land near the Ohio Turnpike.

In the Nov. 3 election, Paris Township residents will decide Issue 31, a measure to repeal the township’s zoning regulations altogether.

Work on a neighborhood-wide sewer project in Ravenna Township’s Chinn Allotment has hit a snag, courtesy of supply chain issues and FirstEnergy, the parent company of Ohio Edison.

Former Mantua Police Chief Joseph Urso’s legal effort to get his job back has hit a roadblock and potential dead end.

The Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank is ground zero when it comes to providing food for Portage County’s hungriest people.

Shalersville’s Zoning Commission on Sept. 10 approved a handful of amendments to the township’s zoning code that could affect a contentious proposed data center campus.

Registering to vote may not be as self-evident as one might think. Enter your address and other identifying information, and off you go.

Brimfield Township is in financial trouble, but exactly how deep the hole is, who’s responsible and what to do about it remain unknown.

Standing room-only crowds at Shalersville Town Hall don’t faze local hairstylist Tiffany Olson.

E-bikes riders take notice: Ravenna city leaders are poised to adopt new helmet regulations.

Convicted of a double murder 30 years ago, former Portage County resident Tyrone Noling has sat on Ohio’s death row ever since.

“I want to see a noise level that is what it is today,” Portage County Regional Planning Commission Director Todd Peetz said. “They shouldn't be adding any noise to the neighbors. None. Zero.”

Garrettsville a golf cart community? Seems so. Village Mayor Rick Patrick and police Lt. Keith Whan both say they’re seeing more and anticipate an even greater uptick.

About 130 employees at Aurora’s GE HealthCare facility joined IAM Union Local 1363 in January 2025, and they’ve been negotiating their first collective bargaining agreement ever since.

Emotions ran high during an Aug. 12 Regional Planning Commission meeting, when area residents once again packed Shalersville Town Hall to object to a proposed data center campus.

Streetsboro City Council on Aug. 10 rejected the use of Flock cameras, with several council members objecting to their accuracy, effectiveness and potential misuse.