Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance was raised in Middletown, Ohio. The city of 51,000 has bucked Rust Belt trends and remains a thriving steel-making community. Here's a deep dive.

JD Vance has portrayed Middletown as a struggling steel town betrayed by liberal policies. There's more to his hometown's story.

Construction is underway and will continue throughout 2025 on the rehabilitation of the decades-old Armco/AK Steel Research building in Middletown that when completed will be the combined home of ...

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio ‒ A $500 million grant to update the Cleveland-Cliffs steel plant in JD Vance's hometown may be on the DOGE chopping block.

Cleveland Cliffs is now operating the steel mill in Middletown, but EI Ceramics will completely overhaul the research facility. The former AK Steel research building first opened in 1937.

His memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” told the down-at-the-heels story of Middletown, Ohio. It’s a depiction that has stuck.

The Clean Energy Buyer's Association found that by 2050, the U.S. steel industry will require 10 times as much electricity as it does now.

JD Vance repeatedly rebuffed entreaties to work with groups in the hometown he made famous in “Hillbilly Elegy,” according to dozens of interviews with locals and his private correspondence.

A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city’s economic heartbeat as well as a keystone origin story of JD Vance, the hometown senator now running to be Donald Trump ’s vice-president.

A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city’s economic heartbeat as well as a keystone origin story of JD Vance, the hometown senator now running to be Donald Trump’s vice president ...

Middletown is a classic Rust Belt, steel-making city Steelmaker Armco arrived in Middletown in 1900, giving the city of 51,000 residents today its industrial heartland identity.

The heavily polluting steel industry is taking steps to clean up operations, adopting technologies that produce fewer climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions. A new report finds that as producers ...