Ohio’s fire marshal typically recommends that homes have smoke detectors regardless of the type, but he’s considering whether to change that guidance after several Ohio cities mandated a more expensive style of alarm.

A study of coyotes in Northeast Ohio is focused on how the secretive animals move and live in the Cuyahoga Valley in an effort to help parks shape their wildlife management plans.

Officials in northern Ohio’s Richland County are working to create a regional fund to fight two planned wells that would be used to inject wastewater from drilling operations into the ground.