Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Politicians are focused on city crime. What about rural communities?

President Donald Trump has made headlines in recent months for sending federal troops to major metros from Memphis, Tennessee to Portland, Oregon.

A new Ohio council will bring nursing home residents together to voice their needs

More than 122,000 Ohioans live in long-term care facilities, like nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Meet the Ohio pumpkin carver turning gourds into gallery pieces

Like a lot of Ohioans, Gus Smithhisler gets the itch to carve a pumpkin each autumn. But, instead of going to a grocery store or a pumpkin patch, he brings in a forklift.

"We haven't had one this big for a while," the forklift operator told Smithhisler, as he directed a massive pumpkin onto a wooden pallet.

Wooster High students finally get a promised concert, five decades on

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels are performing in Ohio this weekend. But instead of playing the Agora Theater or the Beachland Ballroom, the octogenarian Rock and Roller will be playing the slightly more intimate venue: Wooster High School's Performing Arts Center. That's all because of an effort by Wooster High School's Class of 1971.

In Ohio, corn mazes are serious business

This story was originally published October, 21, 2025 on Midstory, a nonprofit newsroom based in Toledo.

LLCs and out-of-state investors are buying up Ohio homes

It's a hard time to be a prospective homebuyer in Ohio and across the country. Home prices have barely declined in the last year, as interest rates have stayed steady.

Double double: Ohio witches are headed to Sandusky to set two new world records

In an era of technological advancements that challenge the things we've believed to be true for centuries, civilized society is coming to terms with a reality once thought to be merely a fairytale: Witches are everywhere.

Mobile unit takes lung cancer screening on the road

Health care workers with Ohio State University have begun driving a mobile lung cancer screening unit across the state.

It's meant to expand early detection efforts in underserved parts of Ohio, like Perry, Morgan, Noble and Monroe counties.

As data centers boom in Ohio, local communities are watching their water

A year's worth of Marysville's water laps in a reservoir north of the city. Public service director Jeremy Hoyt said the water level normally sits above the dock, which now sits exposed to the sun.

"You can kinda see the staining," he said pointing to where the stone wall changes in color. "We just have not been able to fill it with the drought."

First responders see a lot of trauma. A new Ohio center hopes to help them heal

Police officers, firefighters and paramedics face higher rates of depression and PTSD than the general population.