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Ohio’s secretary of state called on his multi-millionaire opponents for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate to each kick in $1 million for the pro-Issue 1 campaign.

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.

In her new book Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People, Erica Abrams Locklear explores how literary representations of Appalachian food have colored our view of the region’s people.

An increasing number of Ohio farmers markets are accepting SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps. It’s an effort to increase access to fresh, locally grown produce.

Ranked choice voting, an alternative method of picking first and second choices in multiple candidate races, isn't in use in Ohio, but is in some other states and cities. There's also a move to try to find out if Ohio voters want to bring it here.

In addition to the new butter sculpture, a new attraction at the 168th Ohio State Fair this year includes free admission to the Ohio History Center.

It's not unusual for a first attempt at summary language for an issue to be put before Ohio voters to be rejected, so the group proposing the amendment said it will try again.

Question Mark, Ohio has a garbage dump, a waterfall and the original location of Mr. Freeze-E Ice Cream — plus two creators who made the whole thing up.

More than 150,000 working-age Central Appalachian residents aren’t in the labor force. The Ohio River Valley Institute says that makes it ripe for a federally subsidized workforce program.

Secretary of State Frank LaRose, one of the five Republicans on the seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission, wrote to his fellow commissioners that legislative maps should be approved in just a few weeks.