The Chone Killers’ activity is limited to Ecuador’s coastal province of Guayas. While they are mainly concentrated in the municipality of Durán, local chapters also exist in the nearby municipalities ...

Intense protests flared up last December in communities opposed to Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s plans to build two ...

On January 12, assassins killed Eber Ponce, the mayor of Arenillas, a municipality in the south of the province near Ecuador’s border with Peru. The politician was driving his van with his 6-year-old ...

For several years, too many now to count, the residents of Canton have been sold an idea. An idea that we now need to admit has failed. The Hall of Fame Village was once touted as “the ...

Canton City Council will vote tonight on whether to lease space on Court Avenue NW for a downtown police substation. Canton Police Chief John Gabbard said the substation will serve as a ...

The iconic former paper mill in Canton has officially been acquired by Spirtas Worldwide, the company announced Jan. 10, indicating the end of a legal battle over the sale and a new future for the ...

A leader of one of Ecuador's biggest crime syndicates Los Lobos was arrested Friday at his home in the coastal city of Portoviejo, the military said. Carlos D, widely known by his alias "El Chino ...

Akron and Canton are joining other Ohio communities in opposing an AT&T proposal that cities say could shift the financial burden of moving some utility lines to taxpayers. Both city councils approved ...

The $3 billion Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric power plant in Ecuador has been a public relations disaster since its inception nearly a decade ago — for its construction flaws, cost overruns ...