The Cuyahoga River burned several times prior to 1969, but it was the blaze that year that opened people’s eyes to pollution, thanks to false pretenses.

it’s really hard to ignore the fact that that pollution needs to be cleaned up. And as NPR’s Scott Neuman reports, the result of years of efforts in that vein means that the Cuyahoga River is ...

Sewage is discharged in the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio in this 1973 photograph. The Clean Water Act, passed a year earlier, has improved water quality in many water bodies, but some ...

RESTORATION OF the Great Lakes began unofficially in 1969, after the notoriously polluted Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland, near where it empties into Lake Erie. Nearly two decades later, in ...

This park preserves 22 miles of the Cuyahoga River and the mosaic of natural and man-made features surrounding it, including lush forests, rolling hills, wetlands, waterfalls, farm fields, historic ...

Rescue teams from the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls fire departments recovered a body Monday evening from the Cuyahoga River beneath the High Level Bridge. The person, David Christ, 59, of Kent, died ...