The Children’s Fishing Derbies are Saturday. There will be prizes for the kids catching the biggest and smallest fish, and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The windy, wet, cool weather that has recently stymied area fishing will give way to some sunny days and ...

Canton, Massillon, Stark Parks and others are now scrambling to find other ways to fund a variety of projects after federal ...

Visit BeaconJournal.com every Sunday morning throughout the bicentennial year for a look back at the week in Akron history.

Initial production days will focus on interviews with living descendants, historians, and community leaders, capturing Canal Fulton’s historic landmarks, the Ohio & Erie Canal, and the St ...

Producer Rob Worsoff, best known as the mastermind of A&E’s Duck Dynasty, floated the idea in a 35-page pitch that he said ...

The 136-mile man-made canal connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River and Pittsburgh beginning in 1844, when the first boats made the journey up the canal. It stopped operating in 1871, after the Elk ...

Stark Parks Director Dan Moeglin said $1.5 million in federal funds would've gone toward a variety of needs at the Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Area in Canal Fulton. For now, the ...

1875: The body of Jimmy McEnnerny, a native of Ireland, was found floating in the Ohio & Erie Canal between Locks 14 and 15.

CELINA - Some of west central Ohio's earliest settlers arrived in the new country in September 1834 in the Bark Everhard ship ...

FOX 8 caught up with Juno, an 8-year-old black lab and her volunteer handler near the Ohio and Erie Canal Reservation in Cuyahoga Heights on Wednesday. “We’ve been doing scent work already so ...