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Ohio public radio stations across the state are bracing for a potential elimination of federal funding.

Here’s how federal funding cuts could affect your Ohio public radio station

Congress has taken back funding for public media, which hurts the budgets of public radio news outlets across the state.

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers prepare to leave for Texas to help victims of recent flooding

Ohio state troopers are headed to Texas to help with flooding rescue and recovery efforts

The officers will help authorities in areas of Texas that flooded this weekend.

Green foliage surrounds a bridge overtop a waterfall in Hocking Hills.

Hocking Hills is grappling with the challenges of booming crowds

Millions of people visit Hocking Hills every year. The region’s economy is growing, but so are challenges like traffic and a housing shortage.

The local homeless coalition staff prints out paperwork at the Community Resource Center in Marietta in June.

Ohio nonprofits lose staff, capacity amid $9 million cuts to state AmeriCorps programs

The Trump administration terminated hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grants in April. Ohio nonprofits are still grappling with the fallout.

Senate Finance Chair Jerry Cirino (R-Kirland, left) and House Finance Chair Brian Stewart (R-Ashville), who also chaired the budget conference committee, talk to reporters after the budget was approved by Republicans on the committee on June 25, 2025. The amended version of HB 96 was approved around 1am, after several hours of delays.

Ohio House has veto override session next week, but no date set yet for the Senate to return

The Ohio House plans to come back July 21 to override three of Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67 budget vetoes. But so far the Senate has not set a date for an override session.

Man in dark blue suit speaks to a group of people seated. behind the man is a wall that reads "Bernie Moreno for Us Senate."

Ohio US Sen. Bernie Moreno is all for the big bills moving in Congress

Ohio U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno said Thursday he believes the U.S. Senate has to advance an amended version of the GOP-backed recissions request from the White House.

The conference committee listens to a report from the Director of the Office of Budget and Management Kimberly Murnieks.

Big income tax collections push Ohio’s end of fiscal year balance to $1b over estimates

The fiscal year that ended June 30 was a good one for the state of Ohio, with tax collections in all the major categories ending up above estimates.

Molly McKenzie Nichols with the Ohio Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign speaks to activists gathered in the lobby of the building housing the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. The group went to the PUCO meeting to deliver postcards to commissioners asking them to order utilities to stop collecting charges related to two coal-fired power plants.

Environmental activists say Ohio utility regulators could halt fees for two coal-fired plants

A group of activists say a provision in the nuclear power plant bailout they opposed, which extended subsidies for those coal plants to all Ohio electric ratepayers, gives them the power to stop certain fees.

A rainbow flag featuring a heart in the center is carried by a participant in the Columbus Pride parade on June 14, 2025.

Backers of Ohio anti-discrimination amendment decide to go ahead and split it in two

Ohio Equal Rights said it came to that conclusion to go ahead with the Ballot Board’s decision after considering options.

Ohio lawmaker has renewed hopes for bill to allow K-12 kids to take ‘mental health’ days

A bill to allow K-12 students in Ohio to take days off for mental health issues will soon be introduced for the third time.

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