The Dragons of the Cuyahoga by S. Andrew Swann

I'm currently reading The Dwarves of Whiskey Island and will update this with that review once that book is finished. This is an omnibus version that includes the two novels The Dragons of the Cuyahuga and The Dwarves of Whiskey Island.

But what should have been a simple accident report soon led Maxwell in search of a much bigger story-one that would see him kidnapped by elves, framed for murder, holding secret meetings with dragons, and fleeing not only from the cops but from pretty much everybody! Still, he took his job seriously, and when he was assigned to cover a dragon's death by crash-landing into the Cuyahoga, he headed over to the accident site with only a few curses. And whether he wanted to or not, Maxwell had found himself covering stories that sometimes took him far from his political beat and into way too much danger both magical and mundane.

And suddenly there was a shift in the population as humans fled the burg while dwarves, elves, dragons, ogres, gnomes, mages, and every other denizen of the fantasy realm on the other side of the Portal began moving into town. But twelve years ago a magical Portal had opened into Cleveland, a Portal that had ruined much of Cleveland's modern-day technology even as it released magical energy all over town. He wasn't interested in working on 'fuzzy gnome' stories, or any of the other unbelievable tales that should end up only in sensationalist rags. Kline Maxwell was a serious political reporter. An omnibus edition of Dragons of the Cuyahoga and The Dwarves of Whiskey Island

The Dragons of the Cuyahoga by S. Andrew Swann