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In less than two weeks, voters will decide who is best to lead the city of Cleveland: incumbent Mayor Justin Bibb or community activist Laverne Gore. Bibb was the city's first millennial mayor and won his seat in 2021 against a crowded candidate field, following Mayor Frank Jackson's four-term administration....

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Mayor Justin Bibb is asking Congress to help Cleveland close Burke Lakefront Airport, a formal step that could accelerate the city’s long-talked-about plan to close the airport to redevelop the downtown waterfront. In a letter sent Wednesday to U.S. Senators Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted,...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland firefighters battled a house fire in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon. The house was located in the 5500 block of Mound Avenue. The house was occupied at the time of the fire, but everyone got out safely, according to the Cleveland Fire...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Blankets are inexplicably ripped from the bed of a sleeping woman. A room suddenly goes cold. Doors open and slam by themselves. A glass breaks. Coffee beans are arranged on a counter — all without explanation. These are just some of the things that happened recently...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland leads the nation in child poverty among large cities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but local organizations are working to address the problem. Laura’s Home, which operates out of The City Mission, opened transitional housing in February to provide relief for mothers and...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Authorities are seeing an uptick in seizures of a powerful fentanyl derivative in Ohio. Since the beginning of 2025, analysts with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation have discovered carfentanil in 199 items submitted to the state’s laboratory for testing, according to the attorney general’s...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland Fire responded to the Cuyahoga County Jail on Wednesday afternoon for a report of a fire. According to Lt. Mike Norman, at around noon, firefighters responded after a tablet was set on fire in a sink on the seventh floor. Cleveland Fire said there was...

CLEVELAND — Wendy Dennis is the owner of Mount Pleasant Bar-B-Q in Cleveland. Her grandparents started the business in 1942. "It's our family legacy,” said Dennis. Her BBQ restaurant is one of 29 projects a total of $1,909,341.06 million has been awarded to. On Wednesday, Mayor Justin Bibb...

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — The question of who will be the undisputed mayor of the city of East Cleveland will finally be answered on Nov. 4. East Cleveland Mayor Lateek R. Shabazz and Sandra Morgan, who preceded Shabazz in her months-long stint as interim mayor, are squaring off to determine the city's chief executive...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — For Cleveland area chef Brandon Chrostowski, the kitchen is only part of his mission. His next stop? Ukraine — for the fourth time since the country's war with Russia began. "We're trying to close down a project: rebuilding a children's hospital," Chrostowski said Tuesday.