More Ohio farmland will remain Ohio farmland. The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) is proud to announce 86 acres have been added to the Farmland Preservation program.

Auditor of State Keith Faber announced Wednesday that the following entities received the Auditor of State Award in June for their clean audit reports.

Forty-six local health departments and municipalities across 41 Ohio counties are receiving $816,000 in grants from Ohio EPA for mosquito control activities, including $127,000 to remove scrap tires, which can become breeding grounds for mosquito larvae.

Keeping dollars closer to home — that’s the goal of an expansion project announced Thursday by Chillicothe Fire & Security, Inc., located in Green Township (Ross County).

Ross County Health District’s Director of Environmental Health, Kelly Spindler, and Health Commissioner, Janelle McManis, announced Thursday that the first group of mosquitoes to test positive in Ross County for West Nile Virus has been confirmed by the Ohio Department of Health.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine Thursday announced $3 million in funding for 44 law enforcement agencies to help their drug task forces enforce the state’s drug laws and combat illegal drug activity.

More Ohio farmland will remain Ohio farmland. The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) is proud to announce 75 acres have been added to the Farmland Preservation Program. Acton Family Farms, LLC in Ross County becomes the fifth Ohio farm to join the program this year and the first ever in Ross County.

The Ohio Narcotics Intelligence Center (ONIC), RecoveryOhio and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) joined nearly a dozen law enforcement and treatment agencies in Ross County this week to conduct the state’s fourth coordinated drug/outreach saturation event.

Twenty-four agencies in 21 Ohio counties will receive a total of $579,653.92 from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to support local marine patrol units.

Hometown Apparel & Screen Printing, LLC, in collaboration with JobsOhio, Ohio Southeast Economic Development (OhioSE) and the Greater Chillicothe and Ross County Development, Tuesday announced plans to expand its operations in Chillicothe, Ross County.

The Transportation Review Advisory Council (TRAC) has unanimously approved the annual list of projects to receive funding from the Ohio Department of Transportation's Major New Capacity Program over the next four years.

The Southern Ohio Council of Governments (SOCOG) will hold its next board meeting Thursday, April 13 at 10 a.m. at Riverside Branch of the Chillicothe & Ross County Public Library, located at 550 Buckeye Street at in Chillicothe.

A Chillicothe man currently incarcerated on charges out of Ross County was recently sentenced to prison in connection with two Highland County cases.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Commerce’s Division of State Fire Marshal announced the recipients of the 2023 Fire Department Equipment Grants, which includes 154 fire departments in 70 counties throughout the state totaling $1,374,761.07.