How Ray’s Sausage turned souse into a 74-year Cleveland tradition

Ray's Sausage's souse meat has been a top seller for the three-generation family-owned business in Cleveland's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood.

What developers promised Cleveland for financial help

Since a city law was strengthened in 2023, Cleveland has inked 52 Community Benefits Agreements with developers. Here's what was promised.

Someone told Donna Dabbs to ‘Get your own film festival.’ That's how GCUFF was born.

Fifteen years and still flourishing years by focusing on Black-themed cinema the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival.

A Black Cleveland coalition helps remember Father of Labor Day

A Black labor group is helping to preserve the legacy of Black Cleveland lawmaker John P. Green, who is often called the Father of Labor Day.

Cleveland Public Library workers get new contract with higher pay

Cleveland Public Library workers get new contract with higher pay ans some improved benefits, erasing the chance of a strike.

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Cleveland Public Library union employees delay strike

Cleveland Public Library union employees have delayed a strike set for Aug. 24 to consider a new agreement.

How Community Benefits Agreements should help Clevelanders

Cleveland's Community Benefits Agreement policy is designed to help residents get construction jobs on city-funded projects.

Black business owners in Greater Cleveland want access to capital

Funding remains the biggest barrier for Greater Cleveland Black businesses, the Presidents Council, the local Black chamber of commerce, says

Cleveland job fair Aug. 14 brings 200 employers ready to hire

Success Fair 2026, which will be held in Cleveland Aug. 14, will have 200 companies recruiting, including those with construction jobs.

Workers win wage theft judgments against health centers network 

NEON health centers network workers sued the employer for wage theft and won, now the nonprofit has to pay up.

Deteriorating Shaker Square area apartments move to local control

Deteriorating Shaker Square area apartments that were in foreclosure are now controlled by a Cleveland area company that plans to rehab them.

Six Cleveland churches get help to build affordable housing

Six East Side Cleveland churches have each received a $50,000 grant as seed money to build affordable housing on land that they own.

MetroHealth doctors unionize over concerns about patient care

MetroHealth doctors and other providers unionize, saying that policies, such as double-booking appointments, affect patient care

Older adults power food pantry system as volunteer pipeline shrinks

Older adults are key to running the Hunger Network's food pantry system in Greater Cleveland, but few younger volunteers are helping out.

Cleveland bets on Midline to as East Side jobs hub

Plans for The Midline project also call for creating greenspace and parks out of cleaned-up vacant industrial land.

From vacant lot to neighborhood hub, Hough park ‘gamechanger’

Thurgood Marshall Green in Hough use to a vacant lot, but residents and the Western Reserve Land Conservancy made it a park space gem.

Meet these Black women real estate developers in Cleveland

Frontline Development Group is a Black woman-owned firm that aims to help minority contractors and workers on their projects.

Rundown properties near Shaker Square on the auction block

Cleveland will have a company assess the 308 units and document code violations at the properties, which a new owner will have to repair.