Cleveland Heights

The new parental leave policy in Cleveland Heights rewrites the city’s maternity leave offerings using gender-neutral language, providing four weeks of paid leave for new parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for parents who have given birth.

Mayor Kahlil Seren is proposing to expand the city’s parental leave policies to include adoptive parents, foster parents or parents who haven’t given birth themselves.

The lake has been drained for years. The sewer district says the dam poses a public safety hazard.

Justin Bibb has won the Cleveland mayoral race over Council President Kevin Kelley; Shontel Brown coasted to victory to win an open 11th District U.S. House seat; voters in Summit County decided some contentious races Tuesday, as well as a few which ended in a landslide; and more stories.

Here are your morning headlines for Tuesday, April 14:State confirms first inmate COVID-19 death;Nursing homes must notify families of cases;Experts say…

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, March 12:Stark County man is fourth case of COVID-19 in Ohio;Cleveland Clinic to receive new coronavirus…

One hundred years after Cleveland Heights ratified its original charter, residents will elect the city’s first mayor. Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly supported Issue 26 with 64 percent of the vote, replacing the city manager form of government with an elected chief executive. The city’s first-ever mayoral election will take place in November 2021.

Here are your morning headlines for Monday, September 16:Trump administration launches campus initiative at UA;Parma GM workers strike;CDC: Thousands of…

Friday nights are a busy time on the ice at the Cleveland Heights rec center. But after youth hockey practices and recreational ice skaters have packed up…

This year, when the U.S. Treasury Department selected “opportunity zones”—those higher-poverty census tracts in which financiers will be able to claim tax breaks in exchange for investment—an unlikely Cleveland Heights neighborhood made the cut. Other zones in Northeast Ohio are home to major employers, commercial districts, industrial land or hot real estate markets adjacent to lower-income neighborhoods.