Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Ohio is competing to be the next ‘hydrogen hub’

Ohio is vying for a spot in a federal clean energy initiative.

Could midwives help fill Ohio’s maternity care gaps? Some rural practitioners think so.

This midwife’s office in Athens was not Laura Silva’s first stop for prenatal care.

She already went to her local hospital to talk about birthing options. But, she said it didn’t feel like she had any say in her care.

“I was not heard at all,” she said. “They said, ‘Well, we're gonna do this thing and this,' and I was like, ‘I don't like any of that.’”

The Barn Artist paints 250 years of history into Ohio’s landscape

The barn on state Route 821, just outside of Marietta on the eastern edge of Ohio, is old.

Its gray wood panels are wide and full of holes. The left side was once painted with an ancient “mail pouch tobacco” advertisement. Years of bright sun have made the letters look almost transparent.

A private group is handling Ohio's opioid settlement money. What does that mean for transparency?

Last week Gov. Mike DeWine signed the two-year state budget. It included a line item that exempts the OneOhio Recovery Foundation from public records and meeting laws. The foundation oversees the spending of $1.1 billion of the state’s opioid overdose settlement money.

An Ohio task force wants to reduce recidivism through court programs

At a recent reentry court graduation in Mansfield, two men stepped up to the podium to receive a certificate and congratulations from Judge Phil Naumoff.

High cost of food has increased worries over 'benefits cliff'

At the end of February, a pandemic-era boost to SNAP benefits, often called food stamps, ended, and around 600,000 Ohioans lost a chunk of t

Pandemic food assistance ended. It’s left Ohio families struggling.

Kelly Cunningham loves to cook.

Tonight, she has pasta on the stove. In her kitchen in Mount Vernon, 50 miles northeast of Columbus, she cuts up peppers for a pan of sizzling meat. She inherited this love from her grandmother – who passed down her recipes and her love of garlic salt.

But feeding her family of four has become stressful for Cunningham in recent months.

Can coal waste solve the affordable housing shortage?

Ohio’s affordable housing problem is getting worse, according to data from the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio.

But a team of researchers at Ohio University is working on a solution.

Taylor Swift re-ignites the debate: Which Ohio city gets the biggest concerts?

Taylor Swift is coming to Cincinnati. Not Columbus. Not Cleveland. Not Toledo or Dayton or Lima or Bucyrus. Cincinnati, and Cincinnati alone.

By making the Queen City the only Ohio stop of her Eras tour, she’s re-opened an old debate:

Which Ohio city gets the biggest concerts?

Wage theft is prevalent. Ohio cities are cracking down

Nearly a quarter million Ohioans are paid less than the state or federal minimum wage, according to data analysis by Policy Matters Ohio.