An Ohio agency is celebrating a half a century of championing fair utility prices.
The Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel is the only government agency whose sole mission is to advocate for consumers. In 1976, the state legislature created the counsel office to represent Ohioans in legal battles against utility companies.
A year after scientists started reintroducing lake sturgeon to the Cuyahoga and Sandusky rivers, the primitive fish are showing signs of a comeback.
As the digital era came into its own in the early 2000s, a blurring of the lines between entertainment, news, and law enforcement created a new media genre.
The St. Vincent de Paul charitable pharmacy in Cincinnati has filled more than a million prescriptions – free of charge.
Still, the need hasn't subsided over the pharmacy's last two decades of service. Community members are facing difficult financial choices, said vice president of pharmacy Rusty Curington.
Ohio leads the nation in data center-related ballot measures in the upcoming election, with 21 initiatives across 18 municipalities.
About three in five Ohio toddlers enrolled in Medicaid do not receive required blood lead screening tests — even though the risk of lead exposure
Emily Bush dumped a bag of squirming mealworms into a plastic bin filled with saw dust.
She gently ran her bare hands through the mix, then plucked a single yellow-brown larva from the pile.
"So, all of these worms will eventually be beetles, and then those beetles will basically reproduce these guys," Bush explained.
Before astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon, he was running around his boyhood home in western Ohio.
There are few things more strongly associated with Halloween than witches flying across the night sky on broomsticks. And across the country, stores sell brooms for seasonal decoration or as part of witch costumes. But for many in the region, brooms aren't just for Halloween or sweeping the floor: they can be works of art worthy of hanging on the wall year-round.
This article originally published in Inkstick Media.
