Four years ago this month, the state of Ohio shut down in response to an unprecedented global pandemic.
A year later, two friends in southeast Ohio, former Athens poet laureate Wendy McVicker and Meigs County poet Cathy Cultice Lentes, started sending each other letters of poetry.
Algal blooms and forever chemicals often dominate the conversation around water quality in Ohio. But, researchers across the state say there’s another, lesser known threat to Ohio streams: medications.
A day before recreational marijuana became legal in Ohio, Hamilton city council took a vote, unanimously deciding to ban those sales within its city limits for at least six months.
The southwestern Ohio city isn’t alone.
There used to be a bunch of weather phone numbers all across the country. A lot ended in "1010" or "1212," and they were operated by businesses, banks, companies, even the National Weather Service.
On a cold January morning, Ohio State University assistant professor Gabriel Karns is outside with a small hammer and a drill. He scans the bark of a maple tree for the perfect spot.
“One of the things we look for is an area on the tree where the bark doesn't show much evidence of an old knot,” Karns said, delicately brushing moss off a towering maple.
The lights dim at a community center in Akron, and a small crowd falls silent as about a dozen ballerinas take the stage.
They’re not dressed in pink tutus and pointe shoes. Instead, they wear black Amish dresses, their hair tied into bonnets.
Last week, Kent State University announced it intends to cut spending by tens of millions of dollars in coming years — a move that’ll likely amount to fewer programs and less staff.
Right now, there’s no consistent way to track human trafficking cases across Ohio. Different organizations use different screeners and methods to identify victims.
A chainsaw may not be thought of as a standard tool for creating art. But for ice carver Aaron Costic, he couldn’t make his art without one.
Ohio’s poorest residents pay a greater percentage of their income to state and local taxes than the richest Ohioans, according to a recent report from the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
It found that Ohio has the 15th most unequal tax system in the country.
