A museum dedicated to the funk, the whole funk and nothing but the funk is now open for business in Ohio. The Funk Music Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center in Dayton received its final approvals from the city and is now taking reservations for private tours and events, according to the museum’s president and […]

CLEVELAND – After more than two years of construction, the new Cleveland Convention Center will open to the public this weekend. “Celebrate the Center: Community Open House and Celebration” is set for Saturday, June 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Lakeside Avenue and it’s all free. “We did it!  We built this new convention center.  […]

CLEVELAND – Cleveland’s new Convention Center and Med Mart was six years in the making and often was met with doubts and criticism. The $465 million project was approved in 2007 by a two to one vote by former Cuyahoga County Commissioners. Instantly, opposition arose. Taxpayers were furious that a .25 percent increase in the […]

CLEVELAND – The new $465 million Cleveland Convention Center and Global Center of Health Innovation does something the old convention center couldn’t: Put Cleveland back in the convention business. “Our convention center was built in different pieces, mostly in the 20s and 30s,” said Positively Cleveland President and CEO Dave Gilbert of the old facility […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Now that filming for the movie “I Alex Cross” is completed at the intersection of Lakeside and Ontario, the Cleveland Division of Water (CWD) is resuming work to complete repairs on the break that occurred on Labor Day. CWD crews will repair the 3″ connection to the courthouse as well as […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A water main break in downtown Cleveland has halted filming of I, Alex Cross. Filming was supposed to begin first thing Tuesday morning, but a hydrant valve break at Lakeside and Ontario forced crews to push production back a day. A piece on concrete also fell onto the pipe and crews […]