nuisance abatement

The east side Columbus waterpark's owner, Jeff Kern, failed to attend a hearing for the nuisance property case in Franklin County Municipal Court's Environmental Division.

Shayla Favor, Natalia Harris or Anthony Pierson will face Republican John Rutan in the November general election.

The Property Action Team, through the city attorney's office, consists of six lawyers and a full time social worker to help address problem properties the city tries to either fix or shut down.

Bright orange “vacant” signs hang from the boarded-up doors and windows of houses on Warren Avenue. This West Side neighborhood has kept Columbus Police…

A home in Cleveland’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood — where four badly decomposed bodies were discovered on Saturday — has been a nuisance property for several years, said Cleveland City Council member Kevin Bishop. The boarded up property on E. 144th Street is in Ward 2, which Bishop represents. Police are still investigating how the four people died and officials are still trying to identify the bodies, Bishop said.

The final remaining residents are moving out of a long-blighted Whitehall condominium complex. The city bought the Woodcliff development and plans to tear…

“NO SEX SERVICE!!!!!” screams a sign outside the now-shuttered Sunflower Asian Spa. Yet that's exactly the reason why the city of Columbus shut down the…