Each year, the National Rural Health Association trains nearly 20 rural medical professionals with the aim of expanding healthcare access for small towns.
This year, Ohio Northern University's own Emily Eddy will serve as one of 18 national fellows. She is a pharmacy professor and leads the Rural and Underserved Scholars program at ONU in rural Hardin County.
For decades, Ohioans have had multiple tools at their disposal to keep air polluters in check. But Ohio's budget bill passed over the summer strips away some of those options.
Now, environmental groups are suing Ohio to restore these rights.
If you've encountered prolonged construction on your morning commute, you may find yourself wondering: Why are they tearing up the road? Why is it taking so long? How have they not found a better way to do this?
In Teacher Maria Burris' classroom at the Spanish Immersion School in Mansfield, second grader Lucia answers a math problem about how many stones Lewis and Clark have, entirely in Spanish.
"Lewis y Clark tienen trece piedras," she begins, speaking carefully.
The earth sciences room at Springmill STEM Elementary school doesn't look like a typical elementary school classroom. There's a world map on the ceiling lighting up specific countries, a wall display where students can connect wires to learn circuitry, and a big table that simulates earthquakes.
This article was originally published on October 8, 2025.
In a small upstairs room of a Toledo church, Del Ray Grace is preserving a sacred piece of his Pentecostal upbringing. It isn't an altar or a cross – it's a steel guitar.
This article was originally published on July 16, 2025.
When Kevin Tarpley was a young lifeguard in the '70s, the city of Youngstown had almost a dozen public swimming pools.
"You had a pool on every side of town — maybe one or two pools, one side had three," he said.
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.
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.
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.
