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Greater Cleveland RTA presented its 2019 budget for the first time Tuesday, and thanks to a limited infusion of state aid, the agency will likely get through 2019 with a positive balance. The 2019 budget projects small increases in fares as well as sales and tax revenue for RTA. “With an estimated beginning balance of $35.1 million, 2019 is starting strong,” said RTA’s Kay Satula, who presented the budget at its first hearing. But ridership continues to decrease. Satula says that it could have been worse.

It's that time of year again when you start to see signs of spring begin to bloom. But it may surprise you that many common plants in Northeast Ohio are not native to the region. For instance, forsythia bush with its bright yellow blooms is prevalent in yards and an early spring bloomer— but not native. English ivy and Japanese barberry are also non-natives [Peggy Spaeth]

Thursday night in Las Vegas, the Washington Capitals beat the Golden Knights 4-3, to win the Stanley Cup trophy. It's the first major championship for a Washington, D.C., sports team in a long time.

You studied the Industrial Revolution in school, but what do you know about the "de-industrial revolution?" As big industry disentegrates in the American rust belt, a very different uprising is taking place in cities like Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Reading, Pennsylvania. Lynn Nottage interviewed the residents of Reading for her 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Sweat," onstage now at Cleveland Play House.

Black women have often had to fight battles on two fronts dealing both with racism and sexism. In her new play, “At Last: Celebrating the Lives of Black Women,” Cleveland Arts Prize-winning writer Dr.

For people with obesity and diabetes, there’s growing evidence of the benefits of weight-loss surgery. Cleveland Clinic researchers found that in patients with both obesity and uncontrolled diabetes, weight loss surgery is associated with a 40% reduction in heart issues and death. This is in comparison to the usual recommendation of lifestyle changes and medications. In absolute terms, weight-loss surgery is associated with an 8% reduction in risk of death over eight years.

Hyland Software employees are still reeling a day after the Westlake-based company laid off an estimated 140 employees. Hyland termed the layoffs a "difficult decision" and said in a statement that it still plans to hire more than 300 people this year and will actually increase its overall global employee count by 15 percent. But the sudden layoffs, and the way in which they were done, has unsettled employees who had been part of a company that lists "Family" as one of its core values and says on its website: "Our employees are our family."

The debate over immigration has been dominated by politicians, pundits, and activists with differing viewpoints -- we hear from the owner of an L.A.-based garment factory owner who employs 3,800 workers, most of them immigrants.

In the U.S., 3 percent of the CEOs at top companies are women; in India, that figure is 14 percent. Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett says women in India and other emerging economies, like China and Brazil, are surpassing their American and European counterparts. They're "pointing the way," she says.

The earthquakes, considered minor by geologists, started in December. No one knows what is causing them or how long they will continue.