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Shutterstock/ShutterstockState, national and international leaders are remembering Pope Francis, who died just after Easter Sunday. -
Karen KaslerOhio's May 6 ballot will feature local primaries and money asks, but only one statewide question, on whether to renew a nearly 40-year-old initiative that allows the state to issue bonds to pay for local infrastructure projects.
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The LGBTQ+ organization received a grant for $276,000 from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners last week. -
SB 56 strictly prohibits smoking cannabis in public, limiting Ohioans to partaking in private residences, and reduces home grow from 12 plants or less to six plants. -
A bill that would make it illegal for police agencies in Ohio to have quotas for traffic stops is back before state lawmakers. -
A bipartisan Ohio Senate resolution asks Congress to reimburse parties that have been injured by fraud and to tighten up safety measures on EBT cards themselves. -
The bill also bars government officials from limiting or interfering with police activity during “riot or vandalism activity.” -
Local school board races and the State Board of Education are nonpartisan in Ohio, and party affiliations are not listed alongside the names of candidates. -
Vivek Ramaswamy officially launched his campaign for Ohio governor near his hometown of Cincinnati, and President Trump wasted no time weighing in. -
It’s one of many such laws adopted around the country, with the stated intent of protecting female students. The Ohio law — which applies fully to private colleges, unlike the others — allows individual institutions to decide how they will obey and enforce the measure. -
A group of conservative Amish are suing the state of Ohio over a traffic law that requires buggies to have flashing yellow lights. They say the rule violates their right to religious freedom. -
The latest version of House Bill 54, the biennial transportation budget, has Ohio rejoining the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission at $25,000 a year.
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The county party's screening committee weighed endorsing or not in both races, but opted to move ahead only with the three open seats on the Columbus City Schools' Board of Education. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentDoulas help navigate pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. Though the process hasn’t been without problems, the state has certified dozens of doulas in at least 20 counties. -
Columbus leaders have established the Commission on Immigrant & Refugee Affairs. The commission’s new chair, Bartholomew Shepgong, spoke with WOSU’s Debbie Holmes to explain what the agency will do. -
Federal and state individual income tax returns are due, but as Ohioans close the books on a year’s worth of earnings, tax researchers and advocates are looking forward. -
The county’s Democratic chairman says they likely won’t weigh in on a tightly contested three-way race for Columbus City Council District 7. -
A proposal that rail advocates say will move Ohio toward reviving passenger train service is back on track. -
The budget proposed by House Republicans that passed on a mostly party line vote includes $600 million in 30-year state-backed bonds for a domed stadium project for the Browns in a suburb of Cleveland. -
Business & EconomyOhio's biennial state budget now heads to the Senate, and that chamber is targeting a tentative June 12 floor vote, with a June 30 deadline. -
The change involved a small tweak to the plan to give property tax relief to people in Ohio school districts that lawmakers think have too much reserve money in their operating budgets. -
Under a state law signed last year, Ohio public schools had to pass a policy limiting student device use, though the details were theirs to decide.
