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The City of Cleveland is allowing Bird Scooters to remain on city streets, for now at least. A week after the city’s law director requested that all of the two-wheel, dockless, electric-powered scooters be removed by the next day, the city says it hasn't impounded any scooters. Councilman Kerry McCormack said Thursday that city council and the mayor’s office are working with the California-based tech company and he wants the scooters to stay.

It’s been 60 years since WYSO went on the air and we’re listening back to some highlights from our rare audio collection. Forty years ago, it was the...

Winners from the November election have been moving ahead toward the offices they’ll occupy in January. But the Ohio Green Party is prepared to lose a lot…

The monitor evaluating Cleveland’s progress on the federal consent decree has approved the city’s plan for upgrading the police department’s antiquated equipment, meaning the days of returning to the station to file reports could soon be over. In rejecting Cleveland’s first plan, submitted in 2016, the monitor described the Cleveland Division of Police as “several decades behind” where it should be when it comes to technology.

Armond Budish sailed to victory in his race for a second term as Cuyahoga County executive. Budish won 67 percent of the vote against Republican Peter Corrigan. It was one of the few Election Day bright spots for Democrats in Ohio, along with Sen. Sherrod Brown's reelection and picking up a couple seats on the Ohio Supreme Court. A former Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, Budish was first elected county executive in 2014.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District wants to update its school construction plan, but it will seek public input first. Since the Master Facilities Plan was amended in 2014, CMSD has built nine new schools. But CEO Eric Gordon says that over the last five years the district has seen changes in education demands, in building costs and in state funding cuts. He says the district wants to re-examine where new construction should happen so more students can benefit.

Officers for the Cleveland Division of Police and the Regional Transit Authority shot a suspect in the Kinsman area during a car and foot chase Sunday afternoon. Officers returned fire after a 40-year-old man suspected of a carjacking allegedly opened fire. The suspect was taken to University Hospitals and police withheld his name.

The men arrested during the immigration raids at Corso’s Flower and Garden Center and a Fresh Mark meatpacking facility this month were sent to a medium security prison in Youngstown.

A Democratic state lawmaker has proposed a tax credit that could alleviate a lot of college costs for Ohio students.Studies show in the near future, about…

Cleveland plans to replace all of the city's 61,000 street lights at a cost of $25 million. The new light fixtures can also hold additional hardware – like police cameras or air and traffic monitors – could be attached. But in front of city council's finance committee on Monday was only an ordinance to cover the cost of the light fixtures. That bothered city councilman Kerry McCormack.