Ohio’s emergency response system is getting a major upgrade.
Rural eastern Ohio’s Washington and Monroe counties have become the first in the state to implement Next Generation 911 (NG911), an internet-based emergency response system that allows Ohioans in an emergency to text and send photos and videos.
A perfect storm of rising costs and enrollment challenges has some small private colleges in Ohio, and across the country, facing an existential crisis.
Winters on the Great Lakes are getting shorter.
A recent study published in the Environmental Research Letters found the lakes are losing an average of 1.43 days of ice-cover and near freezing surface water temperatures each year.
That adds up to about two weeks every decade.
Ohio’s private school voucher program started small. Students at underperforming schools in the city of Cleveland could use the vouchers, funded by taxpayer dollars, to pay for tuition at private schools in hopes of receiving a higher quality education.
Three decades later, the state’s private school voucher program is universal.
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Dwayne Petko kneels on the concrete floor of a semi-built house and turns the knob of a large fan mounted in the front doorway, part of the most common test in his line of work.
Most of John Smiley’s major milestones have been celebrated on his farm in Adams County. It’s where he was born, where he learned to park a tractor, where he’s raised his children and the cattle he makes his living off of.
Over the course of 18 years, Ohio and its communities are receiving nearly $2 billion from pharmaceutical companies to compensate for harm caused by opioids. The Ohio Newsroom is following the money. This is our settlement story of the month.
The murder rate in Toledo dropped for the third consecutive year in 2024, to the lowest point since a pandemic crime surge.
At the Ohio History Center museum in Columbus, a recently redesigned exhibit details the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and Indigenous cultures in Ohio.
There’s scaled images of ancient rock art, models of Ohio’s environment centuries ago and excavated items used in Native American rituals.
Less than three months before he was assassinated and at the height of his international fame, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at Ohio Northern University about the fight for racial justice.
To a crowded room, he highlighted systems of inequality and emphasized nonviolence as a path to justice.
