Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Climate change is hurting Lake Erie. Ohio is training a workforce to help

Climate change is altering Lake Erie: warmer water temperatures increase the risk of toxic algal blooms.

Step aside, California: ‘Midwest Shreds’ spotlights popular skate parks around Ohio

In Northeast Ohio, rollerbladers show off their best tricks on a steep handrail to become ‘King of Cleveland.’ At a Columbus skate park, a group of unicyclists speeds down a ramp. Tucked away in the Appalachian hills, skateboarders flock to a graffiti-covered skatepark of world renown.

Ready for take-off: how Appalachian airports are preparing for an electric future

Between drones and electric airplanes, the field of aviation is rapidly advancing. But airports across Appalachia are struggling to keep up.

Ohio is crawling with ticks. What can be done to stop their spread?

Last month, health officials across Appalachian Ohio gathered for the region’s inaugural summit on infectious diseases. It focused on a tiny arachnid that poses a huge threat: ticks.

More Ohioans are dying in car accidents than a decade ago. A national report offers solutions

The number of Ohioans dying from car accidents has surged in the last decade. The state has seen a 26% increase in traffic fatalities in the ten years between 2013 and 2023.

New podcast explores indigenous history of 'The Ohio Country'

A new podcast from Ohio Newsroom member station WYSO explores the history of the Ohio tribes that were removed from the Ohio River Valley. The creators of The Ohio Country traveled around Ohio and Oklahoma to catch up to those tribes and tell the story of how they're reconnecting with the region.

Many Amish children don’t go to high school. One woman hopes to change that

This article was originally published on Feb. 22, 2024.

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.

How Athens County is using ‘friendship benches’ to address a growing public health concern

This article was originally published on Nov. 17, 2023.

Athens County’s friendship benches are tucked discreetly into pockets of public spaces: libraries, a community center, the health department.

Sometimes they’re vacant.

A long-forgotten Black cemetery in northwest Ohio is finally getting recognized

This article was originally published on Apr. 9, 2024.

On the surface, there is nothing special about the dirt field Sarah Marshall is standing next to, just outside of Defiance. It sits off a country back road, empty and unmoving, like any other soybean field in northwest Ohio awaiting planting.

Coming home after prison is tough. For rural Ohioans, it can be even harder

This article was originally published on Feb. 27, 2024.

Brenda Hart was released from West Central Community Correctional Facility in Marysville, 30 miles north of Columbus, in November. But she wasn’t able to go home, at least not in the way she hoped.