A new grant program (Business Development Grant Program) was just launched by the Downtown Akron Development Corporation with support from the Knight Foundation.

AKRON, Ohio — Travel down Akron's Main Street and you'll find the Polsky Building. Currently owned by the University of Akron, this brick-and-glass structure may look closed off from the community, ...

At least four people are dead, and 12 others were injured overnight in a shooting in Leland, Mississippi, at a downtown event taking place during Leland High School homecoming weekend, the city’s ...

Two teenage girls are dead after what police are investigating as a murder-suicide in Akron, Ohio.According to a report from WKYC, Akron police say officers responded to the area of Peckham Street ...

In downtown St. Paul, businesses are noticing a difference after state employees began returning to the office for 50% of their workdays in June. “August [2025] foot traffic in downtown St. Paul, we ...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — Akron police and the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating the deaths of a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman, believed to be a homicide-suicide. Police ...

One person is dead following a vehicle collision in downtown Louisville. Just after midnight Oct. 4, police responded to Second and Market streets on reports of a collsion between a vehicle and a ...

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Downtown Disney will kick off a free film festival featuring six family-friendly Halloween-themed movies starting with “Hocus Pocus” at the outdoor shopping mall in Anaheim next to Disneyland and ...

Akron has gotten a little closer to seeing one of its major downtown buildings redeveloped and re-energized, thanks to a grant from the GAR Foundation. The University of Akron reported Tuesday, Sept.

I am standing astride my bicycle, a sapling in a torrent of traffic, at the spot where Flatbush Avenue angles across Fulton Street. The light changes but my eye drifts up to the towers of Downtown ...

A man was shot and wounded in downtown Chicago on Wednesday in broad daylight, following an attempted robbery, police told Newsweek. A security guard was leaving a business in downtown Chicago when ...