Hundreds of business people, policy analysts, and conservative advocates filled a downtown Cleveland conference hall last week for the National Conservative Energy Summit. One major theme: the need for both the federal and local governments to remove increasingly high hurdles to building renewable energy.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced that troopers, deputies and officers will conduct an OVI checkpoint this week to deter and intercept impaired drivers. 

The airport, a jail, and a prison in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley have emerged as a major part of the network the Trump administration is using to conduct mass deportations. As it has, residents and advocates are raising concerns.

Incarcerated youth across the state of Ohio are better positioned for successful careers and fulfilling lives as a result of unique partnership between the Ohio Department of Commerce and the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS).

President Donald Trump might not have liked the numbers on Aug. 1, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy had added just 73,000 jobs in July and downwardly revised the two previous months by a combined 258,000.

The following is the Hillsboro Police Report for Aug. 28-Sept. 1.

Stretches of rust orange, acidic water flow through hilly southeastern Ohio, but Rural Action has helped bring aquatic life back to the streams.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jim Tressel are reminding the public about funding and support offered by the state to help enhance safety on school grounds and in houses of worship.

For years, anti-renewable-energy advocates have opposed solar and wind projects on the grounds that they take up too much land. Now those talking points, popularized by groups linked to the fossil-fuel industry, have made their way into a sweeping new directive from the Trump administration.

Eleven state department of transportation projects from Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin won regional honors in the 2025 America’s Transportation Awards competition. From preparing for the 2024 solar eclipse to crafting vulnerable road user safety assessment tools, these projects provide long-term benefits to the communities they support.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency could look significantly different by next year’s hurricane season, with state and local governments shouldering more of the responsibility for natural disaster response and recovery.

Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman announced that an arrest has been made in connection to an alleged homicide that took place Sept. 1 on Millers Run-Fallen Timber Road in Lucasville.

Mandates from President Donald Trump’s administration to retain aging coal plants could cause a massive spike in energy costs, according to an independent analysis commissioned by several environmental groups.

In yet another reversal in an ongoing case against former U.S. Rep. Robert (Beto) O’Rourke, D-El Paso, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals has ordered that existing restraining orders already issued against him, his organization, Powered by People, and other groups remain in effect.

State Representative Bob Peterson (R-Sabina) is pleased to share that Abbott Image Solutions, LLC, recently announced that they will be relocating to Leesburg, upon receiving $1.3 million through a JobsOhio Grant.