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The president of Cleveland’s rank-and-file police union says members voted down a proposed contract over the weekend. Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association president Steve Loomis said he isn’t sure why members rejected the agreement. “To be honest with you, I have no idea,” Loomis said. “I thought that this was the end result of a lot of good, hard frustrating work on the part of the city and the members of the negotiating committee.”

Imagine stepping into a small room filled from floor to ceiling with mirrors and bright polka dots. These spaces, called “Infinity Mirror Rooms,” also generally fit only three people at a time.

Ohio’s two U.S. senators agree premiums will go up if a bipartisan compromise on the Affordable Care Act doesn’t get through Congress. Other than that, though, they don’t agree on much, including whether the compromise should get through Congress. From Ohio Public Radio station, WKSU’s M.L. Schultze reports.

Playhouse Square kicks off its new Broadway season this week with the music of a pop star.

For close to 20 years, Dancing Wheels has called Cleveland's Masonic Temple home. It's become comfortable for the acclaimed company after renovating the space for wheelchair accessiblity, putting in its own sprung floors and painting a mural of its logo inside the rehearsal space. But earlier this year the Masonic was sold to an out-of-state company and now Dancing Wheels has been told to vacate the building.

Cleveland saw a sharp increase in rental prices in recent months. That's according to a recent survey by the apartment listing site Abodo.com, which looked at one-bedroom rentals in about 80 cities. The site found that Cleveland topped the list with the highest percentage increase in median rent last month at 6.5 percent. That marks the third consecutive month in which Cleveland led the pack.

Local agencies trying to save a crumbling stretch of land along the Cuyahoga River known as "Irishtown Bend" are now looking to the federal government for help. "If you've ever seen any pictures of it you can see it move several inches to several feet over time," said Grace Gallucci, Executive Director of Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA).

As GOP Senators revealed their tax reform plan in Washington Thursday, members of the House Ways and Means Committee moved forward with amendments to their version of the bill that includes at least one provision that has university presidents up in arms. The tax reform bill released last week would place a 1.4 percent tax on the endowments of private colleges and universities. Endowments are investment funds largely made up of donations and other gifts to a college or university.

The Maumee River runs more than 100 miles before emptying into Lake Erie in Ohio. And it carries a lot of the farm runoff that triggers algae blooms. But a new book shows that there’s a lot more to the river. Ryan Schnurr spent a week walking and canoeing the length of the river last summer. He has turned that experience into a book called In the Watershed. It’s part memoir and part lesson on the Maumee’s place in history.

By Phil de Olivera, WKSU The mother of Tanisha Anderson is accusing Cuyahoga County officials of trying to cover up police officers' role in her death in 2014 by blaming it on a heart condition. An autopsy of the county coronor originally ruled Tanisha Anderson's death a homicide. But the attorney general's office ordered another autopsy last year after it was discovered the case file was tainted with statements by the two officers involved in the incident.