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Venice saw an unusually high tide leaving three-quarters of the city covered in water. Officials in large areas of the country closed schools and urged residents to stay indoors.

Lake Erie’s harmful algae bloom season is over for the year, and it wasn’t as bad as scientists expected. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ranks this year’s algae bloom as relatively mild, a 3.6 on the agency’s bloom severity scale. That’s compared to an eight last year. The forecast in July predicted the bloom would be significant – a six.

For the past month, doctors volunteering their time on the weekends have been seeing patients at a new clinic inside the Islamic Center of Cleveland in Parma. The 7-10 physicians are all Muslim. Dr. Mansoor Ahmed is a sleep care doctor and runs the new clinic. He says he got the idea for the free clinic when he saw one that a friend opened in Jacksonville, Florida.

About 30 percent of jobs in the Cleveland metro area don’t require a bachelor’s degree and pay above the median wage, according to research from the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and Philadelphia released last week. The Cleveland-Elyria metro area, along with some other Midwest cities like Toledo, have a higher share of these so-called “opportunity occupations” than the national average of about 22 percent.

It was a good night for school districts across Northeast Ohio. Voters supported 18 of 20 school levies on the ballot. The unofficial results show that whether it was a renewal or an additional levy, voters were 'for' their school district receiving the tax money. In Cuyahoga county levies for Brooklyn, Strongsville and Parma City Schools all passed.

U.S. immigration agents made more than 100 arrests at a Sandusky-area gardening company Tuesday morning. It’s part of the Trump administration's growing crackdown on employers for hiring people who are in the country illegally. The 114 arrests happened this morning at two locations of Corso's Flower & Garden Center, a business ICE had been investigating for years according to Steve Francis, head of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit. Complaints against Corso's included suspected tax evasion, and identity theft.

Cuyahoga County Law Director Robert Triozzi has resigned, according to a news release from County Executive Armond Budish’s administration. Triozzi will go on to work in higher education with a focus on justice reform, the release says. The release does not specify where he will be working.

Fourteen islands around the Great Lakes have banded together to form a coalition to address their unique challenges, including a lack of broadband access and healthcare.

This year Cuyahoga County and the State of Ohio cleaned up a dump for construction debris in East Cleveland. But it’s not yet clear if the dump’s operators will have to pay the bill. Arco Recycling had piled the land high with rubble from demolished buildings—angering the neighbors whose homes were nearby.

The first round of lawsuits over the opioid crisis is scheduled for trial next year, with cases from Northeast Ohio at the front of the line. Suits brought by Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and Summit County are among hundreds of cases against companies that made, shipped or sold opioids. The local cases are set to go to trial September 3, 2019. U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster, who is presiding over the multidistrict litigation from his downtown Cleveland courtroom, dismissed drug companies’ efforts to have claims against them thrown out.