As the spring construction season kicks into high gear, the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Industrial Compliance is urging business owners and property managers to hire only licensed commercial contractors.
More than 8,000 acres at Egypt Valley Wildlife Area and more than 500 acres at Salt Fork State Park were approved to be fracked during a recent Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission meeting, which lasted less than 20 minutes.
A emergency meeting of the Highland County North Joint Fire and Ambulance District Board of Trustees will be held on Thursday, May 7 at 200 South St., Leesburg, at 7 p.m.
A tight Republican primary on Tuesday tested the endorsement power of higher-up Republicans in the state and federal, and in the end former Ohio House member Jay Edwards edged out current state Sen. Kristina Roegner in unofficial results.
The Department of Justice last week announced a proposed settlement with Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation (Cliffs) requiring it to address releases of hazardous waste at its Middletown Works facility.
U.S. Senate Republican leaders recently defended the secretive process used in that chamber to investigate allegations of wrongdoing, though they did confirm referring a complaint made against Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego to the Ethics Committee.
At least one Secret Service Uniformed Division officer shot and apprehended an armed man near the Washington Monument on Monday afternoon before President Trump’s press conference, according to two sources in the Secret Service community.
The Hillsboro Civil Service/Employee Relations Committee will meet on Friday, May 8, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. in the conference room at the city building, 130 N. High St., Hillsboro.
In addition to statewide offices and congressional and state legislative seats, Ohio voters on Tuesday will decide many local issues, including many tax proposals.
Nearly half the nation’s children live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association.
In the latest chapter of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s strained relationship with his own party, a key swing county’s Democratic Party has called for him to be voted out of office in 2028.
A grand jury in Williams County recently indicted an Illinois truck driver on grand theft charges for failing to pay $21,881 in tolls on the Ohio Turnpike over a two-year period, the Turnpike said in a statement.
The U.S. national debt is now larger than the entire American economy and is only set to keep growing, further exacerbating the affordability crisis and risking national security.
Tucked into President Donald Trump’s new budget request is a plan that could dramatically change — and, critics say, slash — how much money and help states provide to people needing jobs and training.
