As Akron celebrates its bicentennial in 2025, we’re looking back at two centuries of headlines. Visit BeaconJournal.com every ...

truck/bus tire plant. Announced Jan. 23, the closure—set for July 31 ... where cuts are expected at corporate and sales levels as well as the company's Akron Technology Center. "The company is ...

met with key industry stakeholders last month in Akron, seeking opportunities for Ivorian rubber in North America. What's inside? A worker died in an accident while working at the Hoosier Racing Tire ...

Art was a Firestone man. They went years without speaking ... When the war was over, all three of them were back in their hometown of Akron, Ohio, working at the family feed-and-grain mill and ...

DOWNTOWN AKRON — Akron City Council approved the ... The Morley Health Center and Firestone Plant No. 1; construction of 10 units of affordable infill housing in the Summit Lake neighborhood ...

Bernie Factor said the softball commission would like the public to share memories and old photos of the ballpark. Email them ...

AKRON, Ohio – Akron City Council this week passed the 2025 Capital Budget, which allocates $380 million in investments for the city’s infrastructure–including public safety, service, housing ...

AKRON, Ohio — Akron Mayor Shammas Malik has announced that the city's $380 million capital budget for 2025 has been unanimously approved by City Council. The capital budget outlines investments ...

Keep Akron Beautiful's (KAB) Planting Change initiative aims to rejuvenate the Rubber City's tree canopy by planting 100,000 trees by 2034, but it needs some money for the trees itself. On March 7 ...