Akron City Council

Akron City Council met over Zoom Monday introducing new working groups to reexamine the relationship between the city and its police department. They were…

Akron voters are being asked to consider several proposed changes to the city’s charter in November.Among the proposals Akron City Council approved Monday…

Akron City Council is launching an initiative that will bring lawmakers and the police department together to make changes intended to improve public…

Here are your morning headlines for Monday, July 13:Weekend COVID-19 cases remain high, jump not seen yet at hospitalsU of A faculty union rallies for…

Akron officials are moving forward on a plan to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by making masks mandatory in the city and setting fines for offenders.Masks…

Akron City Council has wrapped up a three-year long process to do away with Columbus Day. Beginning in 2021 because of the pandemic, the city will…

Columbus joined several other Ohio cities in requiring masks in public spaces. The Columbus mask mandate begins Friday. Akron may soon follow. “This is about science. This is not about politics,” said Akron Ward 5 councilwoman Tara Mosley-Samples. “I think that they have politicized it so much that we are ignoring the science here, and the science says we have a problem,” said Samples.

Here are your morning headlines for Monday, June 29:Ohio passes 50,000 COVID-19 casesMore than 1,400 get tested for COVID-19 at West Akron pop-upCOVID-19…

The phrase “defund the police” has become one of the battle cries of protesters across the country since George Floyd was killed in May by Minneapolis…

With the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, cries to address racism have grown louder across the country. In answer, the city of Akron declared…