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Median household income jumped to $68,700 in 2019, the highest since record-keeping began in 1967. Many of those gains have likely been erased this year, as the pandemic left tens of millions jobless.

Each year in the U.S. around 500,000 people die from Alzheimer’s Disease, and it’s estimated that around 5.8 million people are currently living with...

There's a long waiting list to get into public housing in Cleveland. At last count, the list ran to about 19,000 people. That's about one out of 20 city residents, all waiting to get apartments at places like Woodhill Homes. And the number doesn't include the Housing Choice Voucher program, formerly Section 8, where people get a subsidy to rent an apartment on the private market. Another 10,000 people wait on the list for that.

Ohio's Medicaid program, which provides health insurance for more than 2.8 million low-income residents, doesn’t work for everyone, according to a recent survey. The system isn’t easy to access online and wait times are long, said Jessie Herzfeld, a self-employed artist who receives Medicaid benefits and participated in the study. “Everything, every year, has been really frustrating and stressful,” Herzfeld said.

For the first time in several years, an Ohio Department of Transportation panel has voted to move forward on hundreds of millions of dollars in road…

Officials fear that the growing number of COVID-19 cases could exceed the city's hospital capacity. As of noon Thursday, New Orleans had seen 11.8 deaths per 100,000 residents.

The Akron-Summit Public Library will reopen in phases after weeks of COVID-19 concern-driven closure. Most staff will return to buildings to prepare for service June 8, and patrons can start returning items June 15, library administrators announced Tuesday. Temperature checks will be required for staff before each shift and face coverings inside library buildings will be mandatory for library workers.

The crackdown follows a 2015 law that bars foreign financing of religious institutions in Austria, but critics say it's driven by Islamophobia.

The state’s medical marijuana program is not going to be ready for patients on the scheduled start date on September 8. And there's no clear idea on when…

Cleveland City Council has approved its side of a lease deal to keep Major League Baseball in town through 2036 and upgrade Progressive Field with public funds.