This is Akron

The goal was to connect. The Beacon Journal/Ohio.com, The Devil Strip and WKSU public radio sat down with about 200 residents this month at neighborhood…

One of the things we are constantly trying to do at WKSU is to break out of the cocoon that ideas for news coverage can only come from the newsroom. After…

Marlene Denholm and Brooke Kennamore get a firsthand look at ongoing Akron economic development. That’s because they have a true front-row seat to the…

Jacqueline Easley feels a deepening dread every Thursday."It's the weekend, and I wonder who's going to get shot and killed now," said Easley, 59, who…

She's staring down six expensive years in medical school, and he's working part-time before graduating this summer with a degree in construction…

Nancy Fay is Bath through and through. She lives on a family farm. She runs The Bake Shop in Ghent bakery. And she sits on the township zoning board.She's…

Jamilya Maxwell stuck her hand into the dirty water of a giant pothole in Highland Square a couple of weeks ago. It was wrist deep. Then she kneeled and…

Akron resident Carla Deiss Dobbins is flummoxed: Why does it cost more to flush her toilets than to heat her Firestone Park home during the dead of…

What’s the matter with Akron? “I think here where I work it’s probably the crime and then — second — the roads,” Rebecca Atkinson said with a disconcerted…

Editor's note: WKSU is partnering with The Akron Beacon Journal and The Devil Strip to cover the city's upcoming election. This story, from the Beacon…