Librarians at the Westwood and Price Hill branches of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library got quite a surprise late last year. A copy of "Wild West" by Bertrand W. Sinclair was returned after 98 years.
Ohio deer are testing positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a neurological disease that is always fatal to animals like deer, moose and elk. It has infected more than 20 whitetail deer in five Ohio counties this past hunting season.
Brian Ames has spent the last decade filing upwards of 160 lawsuits against local governments.
“I go find public bodies that are not following the Open Meetings Act, and I bring cases against them that require them to comply with the law,” he explained.
The courtyard at Pickaway Correctional Institution hummed with activity on a sunny Wednesday in March. The prison’s residents stretched their legs under the warm sun and greeted this week’s visitors with the same ease of neighbors passing on the street.
Five years ago this month, Ohio issued an emergency stay-at-home order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Schools shut down. Child care providers stopped operating. Libraries paused their programming.
In a swampy wooded area in Athens County, David Funk moves swiftly past sycamores coming-of-age, and the frogs belting below them, to a small stand of walnut trees.
With the snip of his pruning shears, he clears off a low-hanging branch. It may seem destructive, but it’s a part of Funk’s forest management plan.
Public school districts across Ohio say they’re running out of money. From the largest city districts to the smallest ones in urban and rural communities, schools are preparing to make cuts.
As foreign countries threaten and impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products, some Ohio soybean farmers are growing concerned.
Soybeans are the state’s top-produced crop: Ohio farmers planted upwards of 5 million acres of the legume last year, compared to about 3.5 million acres of corn.
The woods behind Weston Lombard’s farm in Athens County is expansive.
“If you look around, we're just surrounded by oak trees and hickory trees and walnuts,” he said.
Birds dance through tangles of branches that reach toward the sky. A tiny snail curls up on the ground.
But it wasn’t always this way.
Truck driving is one of the most dangerous occupations in the country, making up 20% of all vehicle related-fatalities.
