Lorain County

The NEXUS pipeline was projected to generate millions of dollars in tax revenue for school districts, but the final valuation was much less than expected.

Governor Mike DeWine joined Ford Motor company officials as they announced plans to invest $1.5 billion at an Ohio assembly plant in Lorain County to build new electric commercial vehicles.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday ruled Secretary of State Frank LaRose was within his rights to block a Lorain County Democrat from serving on the board of elections.

The call is growing louder for the Lorain County Fair to ban the Confederate flag. The Community Foundation of Lorain County will boycott the fair as long as the flag is permitted onsite. The foundation is latest in a list of entities pushing for a ban, including grassroots group Lorain County Fair Minded Coalition and local and state officials.

Lorain County's five-year average infant morality rate in 2018 was eight deaths per 1,000 live births. In 2011, it was more than twice that. “21.7 [per 1,000 live births] was our five-year rolling average, which is a pretty high rate," said the county's health commissioner Dave Covell. "Our average rate among white babies was 7.2, so you can see there's a huge discrepancy.”

Updated: 12:39 p.m., Friday Dec. 20, 2019. A tax reassessment requested by a gas transmission company has Lorain County officials frustrated by the possibility of losing nearly 40 percent of the expected taxes before the county has collected any money at all. The NEXUS pipeline was initially estimated to bring $9 million to Lorain County, but the company is appealing to the Ohio Department of Taxation for a reassessment of its value.

Stemming the tide of drug overdose deaths in Lorain County and nine others across the country is the focus of a new pilot program from the U.S. Attorney…

The US Environmental Protection Agency has designated 4 Ohio rivers as “Areas of Concern” – and Lorain County’s Black River is one of them. This week, the EPA awarded more than half a million dollars to Lorain for Black River restoration projects.

For the past few years, a flaming fish has lit up the Lorain night as it floats along the Black River for the annual Fire Fish Festival. It's the artistic brainchild of Lorain County Community College's Joan Perch and local arts impresario James Levin. The past two festivals have sparked with a civic rebirth in Lorain with retail stores, dance studios and art galleries popping up throughout downtown.

It turns out Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have won one more county in Ohio than originally reported.Lorain County was a close one…