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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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Westerville City Council voted Tuesday to ban mental health practitioners from the practice of "conversion therapy," a practice that tries to get a person to change their gender identity or sexual orientation. -
Kate Curry-Da-Souza, Tiara Ross and Jesse Vogel are the three candidates running in the Columbus City Council District 7 race. Ten candidates qualified for three open seats on the Columbus City Schools' Board of Education. -
Sen. Hearcel Craig (D-Columbus) announced Monday that the Juneteenth flag will officially be flown outside the Ohio Statehouse on Juneteenth this year. -
Hamilton County has already received upwards of $7 million in opioid settlements, with millions more to come. How is the county spending its payout? -
Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was sworn in as lieutenant governor in front of hundreds of officeholders, family members and other guests – including some of his former players. -
About a dozen members of IATSE Local 12 held signs reading "Ohio State - Unfair to Local Labor," during a demonstration in front of Ohio State University's Mershon Auditorium. -
The 39-year-old biotech entrepreneur, a 2024 presidential candidate who left President Donald Trump's government efficiency initiative last month, will kick off his closely watched campaign at Cincinnati's CTL Aerospace Inc. -
A Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas judge permanently blocked the law in the ruling Friday morning. -
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has extended the state's unofficial death penalty moratorium once again with the postponements of three more executions scheduled for this year. -
Ohio must try to get back around a billion dollars in pandemic unemployment benefits from the federal government and distribute it to Ohioans who have been waiting since June 2021.
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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.
