Action was taken on two potential local developments at Hillsboro City Council’s March 12 meeting, as the mayor and property owner withdrew an offer to sell the former city pool, while council denied extending a promissory note for the sale of bonds for a long-discussed hotel development.

Wesley Davidson’s plea was filed this week in Vinton County Common Pleas Court, admitting to the charge that was outlined in a bill of information.

In a historical first, nine people have been convicted by a federal jury on domestic terrorism charges connected to Antifa.

U.S. officials are calling for fair treatment of American companies in Europe as broader trade negotiations continue.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., plans to bring an elections reform bill to the floor next week and kickstart a marathon debate that could potentially last days.

Highland County commissioners Terry Britton, David Daniels and Brad Roades heard an update on policy changes for SNAP benefits from Highland County Job and Family Services Director Jeremy Ratcliff during their Wednesday, March 11 meeting.

Indictments filed this month by the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost accuse 10 Medicaid providers of stealing a combined $578,000 from the government health-care program for the needy.

Landsman, whose district is also in the Cincinnati area, is one of just four Democrats who voted against the war powers measure. It failed 212-219, so if they had all voted for it and all other things stayed the same, it would have passed by a single vote.

Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) bill to strengthen America’s commercial driver’s licensing requirements.

More than 750 people were in attendance for the Highland County Chamber of Commerce’s 14th annual Ag is Everyone’s Business event on Friday, March 6 at the Patriot Center on Southern State Community College’s campus.

Four of six crew members have been confirmed dead as a result of Thursday’s crash of an American refueling tanker.

Old Dominion University suspended classes and operations on its main campus Thursday after a shooting at Constant Hall left two people injured and the gunman dead, according to emergency alerts issued by the university.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Director Stephen D. Dackin today announced 109 Ohio schools have earned the Governor’s Science of Reading Champions Award for 2026.

Ohio is rushing toward a power supply crisis driven in part by growing demand from facilities like data centers. It can take years to navigate the process for building new standalone power plants. Data centers are moving faster than that.

Thirty communities in 17 states will be impacted by a $1 billion investment by Cincinnati-headquartered GE Aerospace in American manufacturing.