For Rep. Brian Lorenz (R-Powell), the state's healthcare crisis isn't a partisan matter. It's a personal one.
"I used to see my wife come home, how stressed out she was, how stressed out her friends were," Lorenz said in an interview earlier this year.
This story mentions suicide.
As Ron Smith flipped through a scrapbook in the middle of a Dayton living room, each page documents the life of his daughter, Tristin Kate Smith.
He pointed at a photo of Tristin Smith, smiling in scrubs.
Clare Roth is an Iowa native who now calls Ohio home. After stints talk show producing and news magazine hosting, she's found her true passion in editing others' work.
Very few gun-related bills have passed the Ohio legislature with broad bipartisan backing.
But, SB273, the "Keep Them Safe Act" received unanimous support from the Ohio House and Senate before Governor Mike DeWine signed it into law on June 18.
When the Buckeye State Tree Nursery first opened in 2024, Carla Jarvis planted chestnut trees by poking holes in the dirt with her finger.
"I just do that to give them a good spot to start rooting down into," she explained.
Her nascent team had planted around 9,000 trees this way in the first month of the facility's operation.
Since a toxic algal bloom left hundreds of thousands of Toledo-area residents without safe drinking water in 2014, scientists have been working to curb the yearly threat.
A small team is learning how to prevent a tragedy in the basement of a Butler County office building. They're a part of LOSS/DOSS, Local Outreach Suicide Survivors and Drug Overdose Survivor Support Team.
Program director Jennifer MacLean tells the group those who lose loved ones to suicide are more at risk of suicide themselves.
A team of microbiologists has discovered a risk of microbes in intravenous drug use.
Researchers at Bowling Green State University studied the contents of 50 syringes from the Northwest Ohio Safe Services' needle exchange program, where people who use drugs can swap out used needles for clean ones.
Denison University anthropology professor John Soderberg dug himself into a hole.
Well, it was a trench that Soderberg and his team hoped would provide evidence of a long-lost earthen circle built by Indigenous people thousands of years ago.
The United Titanium Bug Zoo at Ohio State University's campus in Wooster is full of creepy, crawly critters in extra large sizes: hairy tarantulas, cave cockroaches and giant millipedes.
But at least one bug among them is much smaller.
"What do you say, maybe two inches long? An inch and a half?" Jeni Filbrun estimated.
