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Lawmakers made a change to the resolution that raises the bar for constitutional amendments to include legislative initiatives.

Republican Sharon Kennedy has defeated Democrat Jennifer Brunner in the race to become the next chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.

Most Republican lawmakers are opposed to the issue to legalize recreational marijuana, and the Ohio Senate president says if it passes it will likely be changed.

There are two vacant seats in the Ohio House and it is thought that might change the number of votes needed to pass the measure.

The deadline for adopting a new two-year state budget is June 30, but lawmakers can't agree whether they can resolve their differences in time.

A southwest Ohio man has settled a lawsuit he filed against his Republican state senator, who he says blocked him on Facebook during a heated debate about…

After 17 days of overtime budget negotiations, lawmakers in the Ohio House and Senate have reached a $69 billion two-year spending deal.The plan was…

Business and higher education leaders are backing the plan.

The Secretary of State's office said backers of a plan to legalize recreational marijuana fell 679 signatures short of what was needed to put the initiated statute on the November ballot. Backers of legalization say they plan to collect more signatures during the next ten days, the so-called "cure period," to ensure that issue will be before voters this fall.

One bill would provide a tax credit for donations to so-called “pregnancy distress centers” in Ohio, and the other would ban cities from keeping a list of guns and gun owners.