YOUNGSTOWN — Spend five minutes in Youngstown, and it’s clear that food is a cornerstone of the community, which comprises smaller communities of all kinds. The Simply Slavic Festival is one of the younger cultural celebrations in the city, but it’s no less important to those who hold ...

The Mahoning Valley has been a region hit hard by health care worker shortages, and a partnership between Mercy Health and Inspiring Minds is building a pipeline of talent by giving local students a head start in medical careers. Since 2018, the Inspiring Minds Summer Career Development ...

Four Mile Run Road over Interstate 80 in Austintown will be closed today through June 16 for a bridge deck overlay. The detour will be Mahoning Avenue to North Meridian Road to Salt Springs Road. Also today, state Route 170, just north of the Columbiana County line, will be closed through ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Raymond K. Butler Jr., 28, was shot to death early Sunday in a vehicle he was driving at the intersection of Gibson Street and Poland Avenues just southeast of downtown. Youngstown police were dispatched to the location at 3:58 a.m. for reports of a person shot inside a vehicle ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman, 55, was killed in a two-vehicle crash at 5:51 p.m. Friday crash at the intersection of Southern and Midlothian boulevards on Youngstown’s South Side, according to a Youngstown Police press release. Officers were called to a traffic accident and found two vehicles, ...

AUSTINTOWN — State and local officials representing Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties have come together to urge the state to provide funds originally promised to them from the sale of recreational marijuana at dispensaries. A one-hour news conference with 15 area officials ...