With a monthly grocery budget of around $150, Jontayesha Brown is constantly making concessions to feed herself and her two young children. At one point, the Akron family stopped consuming eggs ...

Akron Beacon Journal reporter Tawney Beans and photojournalist Mike Cardew spent the past year delving into Akron's food deserts and telling the stories of the people living within them who struggle ...

With such a worthy milestone — it is hard to not look back. But with such a monumental task still ahead, the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank has to look forward. For the first time since the pandemic, ...

AKRON, Ohio (WEWS) — The concept: a fridge on wheels. Summit Fresh Mobile Market is a converted bus borrowed from a similar program in Mahoning Valley, packed with fresh produce, meat, dairy products ...

Though he's in need himself, Eric Heaton still finds ways to help others. Having received a three-day supply of food Nov. 1 from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul's Ozanam Center at 93 Kent St. in ...

NORTH CANTON, Ohio (WJW) — Now nearly three weeks into the federal government shutdown — with no end in sight — Bob and Nancy Gessner have launched a personal initiative to partner with the ...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – A huge donation is coming to Northeast Ohio to help combat hunger. The J.M. Smucker Co. announced Tuesday it was donating a building, land and money to the Akron-Canton Regional ...

A new program at Akron Central Schools that allows parents to pay for their children's food service with a debit or credit card is proving to be a big hit, the Board of Education was told Wednesday.