Today From The Ohio Newsroom

These Ohio hunters are bagging bucks to feed their neighbors

This article was originally published on October 29, 2025.

At a hunting ground in Butler County, Don Boling walked down an overgrown wooded path, littered with fall foliage. It's one of his favorite spots to hunt deer in southwest Ohio.

Although there are no bucks or does in sight, the lifelong hunter still saw signs of them everywhere.

How kids are keeping history alive at an Ohio Underground Railroad museum

This article was originally published on Sept. 5, 2025.

Built nearly two centuries ago in the early 1840s, the Hubbard House in northeast Ohio's Ashtabula County is old.

Docent Annie Reynolds is not.

Passing the Kwanzaa torch from one Ohio generation to another

Diane Gordon has led Toledo's Kwanzaa tradition for more than 50 years. She still remembers feeling starstruck at her first celebration in northwest Ohio in 1967 in her aunt's home.

Protests to nonprofit: One Ohioan drives unexpected change

Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories.

Transforming Cincinnati and themselves — 47 and on a journey to being 'whole'

Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories.

Ohio poet reclaims her voice after years of discouragement

Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories. 

Meet the Ohioan behind the 'Mensch on a Bench'

Over a decade ago, Neal Hoffman's son spotted an Elf on a Shelf. The magical toy pops up around Christmastime to tell Santa whether children have been naughty or nice.

Hoffman's son wanted one. But there was just one problem: the Jewish family didn't celebrate Christmas.

"I kind of made this joke and said, 'No, man, you can have mensch on a bench'," Hoffman recalled.

Winging it: how a Northeast Ohio couple made birds their bandmates

Monika Bowman is a communications specialist for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and a lifelong birder. She'salso an artist, and now she is working on a unique art project that will bring her two passions together. 

Ohio weather monitoring lags behind. A new network could mean better forecasts

On a farm in rural Clark County in southwest Ohio, fallow fields stretch as far as the eye can see. In the middle of them, there's a 35-foot tower.

"You're looking at one of [Ohio's] first mesonet stations," said Aaron Wilson, the state climatologist of Ohio and an ag weather and climate field specialist with Ohio State University Extension.

For some Ohioans in recovery, legal help is the final step to a fresh start

Alex Haley had been sober for five years when he tried to return to work in rural northwest Ohio. But he was first introduced to drugs when he was just 10 years old, and more than a decade of substance use has taken a toll on his health.