The ultimate underground holiday: Christmas in a cave
If it weren’t for the colorful lights and holiday tunes marking Minford’s Christmas Cave as a seasonal destination, the entrance would be easy to miss.
Today From The Ohio Newsroom
What Trump’s win could mean for solar manufacturing in Ohio
This is the final story in a three-part series about the impact of solar tariffs on manufacturing overseas and in Ohio. The series was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Southeast Asian solar manufacturers look elsewhere to escape tariffs
This is the second story in a three-part series about the impact of solar tariffs on manufacturing overseas and in Ohio. The series was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Tariffs are changing the global solar market. An Ohio company played a role
Inside a factory owned by Ohio-founded First Solar, machine techs monitor screens as glass panels are sanded down, coated with a thin layer of cadmium telluride and tested. Automated machinery manipulates the panels in a maze of conveyor belts inside the massive warehouse.
As Ohio’s opioid settlement funds get dispersed, families who lost loved ones feel left behind
The opioid crisis is personal for Brenda Ryan.
She started her nonprofit, Keys 2 Serenity, in Cuyahoga Falls after her own daughter, Sheena, passed away from an opioid overdose in 2016. Sheena was survived by her 5-year-old child.
Outside the North Pole, Ohio was once the center of toy-making magic
Rob Eldridge collects scraps of his childhood. At his vintage toy shop in Xenia, the shelves are stocked with all the obsessions of his adolescence: G.I Joes, hot wheels and superheroes.
“That robot right there, that Shogun warrior robot from Japan,” Eldridge said, pointing at a menacing-looking cyborg. “That was my favorite toy.”
Sea legs for landlubbers: Ohio will soon have its first river maritime academy
The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen have been celebrating inland waterways for 85 years. The organization is dedicated to the people — and boats — of America’s river history. But now, they’re turning to the future.
University of Cincinnati starts Ohio’s first competitive collegiate adaptive sports program
When she was 10 years old, Logan Cover caught a glimpse of her future at a wheelchair basketball camp at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
“From then on, I knew that was the first college I wanted to go to, and I wanted to play basketball for them,” Cover said.
Wooster pharmacist fills gaps left by pharmacy closures
Heidi Geib always knew she wanted to work in medicine. Well, sort of.
“I really love the medical world,” Geib says. “But I hate blood, needles, all that stuff.”
Nearly 600 veterans are homeless in Ohio. Can villages of tiny homes help?
Sandy Muntean served as one of the first female military police officers in the U.S. Army. Times were different back in the ‘70s, she remembered.
“There are quite a few men that didn't think women should do that kind of work,” she said. “And I thought, ‘Well, no, you're wrong.’”