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More help is coming for people caught-up in Cuyahoga County’s growing opioid epidemic. The YMCA of Greater Cleveland has received funding to add beds to its transitional housing program for recovering addicts. From Ohio Public Radio station WKSU, Kevin Niedermier reports. Executive director of the Y-Haven program, Ed Gemerchek says the $200,000 from the Cleveland Foundation is a big boost to the 23-year-old program, which now serves 113 homeless men.

A campaign to combat prescription opioid addiction, believed to be the first in the country, kicked off Wednesday in Cuyahoga County. The education effort includes coordinated ads and special print and broadcast programming, with input from a wide range of resources. From Ohio Public Radio station WKSU, Kevin Niedermier reports. Titled “Opioids: Know the Risks,” it enlists the area’s medical, government, law enforcement, education and religious communities.

At least 50 racers are expected to paddle the rapids at Saturday’s Cuyahoga Falls Kayak Race Organizers have been eyeing the level of the Cuyahoga River, to see whether they’d need water released from Lake Rockwell upstream in order to hold the event. The recent downpour has brought the river high enough, so the infusion won’t be necessary, according the lead organizer, Don Howdyshell.

The deciding Game 7 of the World Series is tonight in Cleveland. The Indians could have clinched the title with a win last night, but lost9-to-3 to the...

When the Cleveland San Jose Ballet closed in Playhouse Square in 2000 it was shock for the company. “We all came to work and the doors were closed,” Gladisa Guadalupe said. “It was devastating.” Guadalupe was company principal teacher and artistic associate at the time. She didn’t want to move to San Jose, where the ballet company continued until last year. Instead, she stayed in Cleveland and opened a dance school.

With over 400 marinas in Ohio and over 500,000 registered boats, there’s a lot of activity in the state’s rivers and Lake Erie -- and a lot of potential for pollution, from fuel spills to plastic debris. Ohio and 5 other Great Lakes states have Clean Marina programs that aim to educate marina owners about ways to improve air and water quality.

Agents from the federal Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development descended on Cleveland's City Hall last night as part of an investigation. A spokeswoman for the FBI has confirmed the agencies conducted "law enforcement activity" after business hours. Vicki Anderson said the matter is "under seal in federal court" and could not provide further details. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, asked on the Sound of Ideas about the raid, said, he wouldn't be able to comment on it.

Youngstown’s Riverfront Park and Amphitheater project is getting under way with the coming of the New Year, and so is its oversight by a new administration in City Hall. Tito Brown took office as Youngstown’s 51st Mayor last week. This week he is making time for his first formal update on the $12 million public space development that he is inheriting.

The group charged with carrying out Summit County’s plan to better welcome and integrate immigrants and refugees is meeting this week to talk about economic development. The discussion comes amid drastic cuts in the number of refugees the Trump administration is allowing in the U.S.

By Angelica Morrison A new collaboration between the Great Lakes Commission and Lawrence Technological University in Michigan takes aim at sewer overflows that are polluting the Great Lakes. Sewer overflows -- sometimes millions of gallons -- plague many cities in the Great Lakes region. The biggest cities, like Chicago, Toronto and Detroit, all have that problem. And in Niagara Falls, N.Y., heavy rains caused severe overflows that discolored the Niagara River this summer.