Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Who, and where, are Ohio’s ‘missing’ voters?

Ohio voters are set to decide two highly contentious issues this week — one about abortion access, the other about legalizing recreational marijuana.

Feeding Canada Geese won’t fly in Mentor. It’s now a misdemeanor offense

The geese greatly outnumbered people in Garfield Park on a sunny Thursday in Mentor. They swam, sat in front of park benches, strolled on the sidewalks. A car honked at one blocking the road. The goose honked back.

A new alliance is tackling mental health in Ohio agriculture

Stress-related health conditions, mental illness and suicide rates have been higher in agriculture than in other industries for decades.

Yet, rural areas don’t always have the resources to get people the help and support they need.

A newly formed alliance aims to fill that gap.

More Ohioans turning to permanent contraception, amid abortion uncertainty

Sitting in the living room of her Cleveland home, 30-year-old Grace O’Malley reflects on when she ruled out having kids of her own.

Reader Beware! Ohio shapes scary stories by best-selling “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine

When R.L. Stine was growing up in Bexley in Central Ohio, he was afraid of everything. It’s part of what led him to spend so much time writing in his bedroom beginning at age 9.

“I was always sure something was lurking in the garage, waiting for me. Something horrible,” he said.

Mythbusting Ohio’s ‘cursed’ Indigenous burial ground trope

Indigenous mounds and burial sites speckle Ohio’s landscape, from Miamisburg in the west to Marietta in the east.

These sites played important roles in many Indigenous cultures.

"The most haunted village in Ohio" says ghosts are just part of the charm

Whitney Fordyce tended to the lunch rush that piled into the Hammel House Inn’s downstairs restaurant on a Wednesday in early October. Her ponytail bobbed as she darted from table to table topping off drinks and taking orders.

The inn was completely booked leading into the fall weekend.

Ohio’s backyard beekeeping is a-buzz 

Kevin and Liz Jones walk slowly toward one of the brightly colored wooden boxes that line the yard of their farm in Batavia, just east of Cincinnati.

How repurposing a vacant school is helping tackle Mount Vernon's housing shortage

The bricks of Adams School on the south side of Youngstown are falling down.

Some of the windows are broken.

Inside, paint flakes from the walls as water drips from rusty stairwells.

“It needs to be torn down,” said Ken Stanislaw. His backyard juts up against the deteriorating building, which has sat vacant for nearly fifteen years.

Ohio now has more 'old-growth' forests than any other state. Here's why that matters

The Old-Growth Forest Network welcomed two Ohio forests to its ranks this October: Stage’s Pond State Nature Preserve just south of Columbus and the Lindy Roosenburg Preserve near Athens.