This week in Akron history, canal commission awarded contracts, workers installed pipes, motorists bought maps and firefighters opened a new station.

Tamarr, who turns 20 years old on Aug. 25, will be monitored by veterinarians without anesthesia and may begin to spend less time in front of guests.

He became the Akron Zoo's president in 2015 and was part of its transformation from a place that attracted some 60,000 guests to one that now has a reach of some 500,000 people, whether it's those ...

The zoo officially has begun construction on an $11.95 million project to build a new animal hospital behind the Landon & Cynthia Knight Pride of Africa area along Diagonal Road.