Today from The Ohio Newsroom

At 85 years old, Grandma Joy had never seen a mountain. So her grandson took her to see the Great Smoky Mountains. The pair went on to visit all 63 national parks.

Statistics from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development show the number of people experiencing homelessness across the country dropped by 3% last year. But the trend is moving in the opposite direction in Ohio.

The owners of four injection wells in southeast Ohio’s Washington County agreed to voluntarily stop their operations in early July, following a request from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ oil and gas division.

Fairfield County native Jacqueline Ratliff is sailing aboard the Nautilus, in hopes of documenting unexplored ocean habitats.

The state is investing money to help counties develop land use plans that prioritize agricultural land.

OhioHealth will close the labor and delivery unit at Grady Memorial Hospital in central Ohio’s Delaware County at the end of July. It’s the latest in a string of more than two dozen Ohio hospitals that have closed or consolidated maternity care since 2018.

Arm wrestling clubs are springing up all over the state. Now, Ohioans are representing Team USA at the world championships and rising through the international ranks.

Thousands of family farms raise beef cattle in Ohio. But the state has far fewer meat processing businesses. One southeast Ohio butchery’s humane approach has farmers traveling from all over.

After Ohio Humanities lost federal funding last year, the statewide organization is announcing an organizational shift.

The Supreme Court ruled President Trump has the authority to rescind Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria.

As the end of another session comes quickly, it’s unlikely nursing staffing bills will move before December, when all legislation either goes to Gov. Mike DeWine or dies.

Nurses across the state are pushing for hospitals to adopt mandatory staffing ratios, amid overwhelming patient loads. But hospitals and rural providers say it could make things worse.

Newly passed Ohio gun legislation will give a safe storage option for gun owners in crisis.

Two years after it launched, the Buckeye State Tree Nursery in Zanesville is distributing its first round of seedlings.

University of Toledo researchers have developed a system of buoys that slowly release algaecide into the surrounding water.

The Ohio Department of Behavioral Health recently developed a program to train those funding behavioral health initiatives in prevention science.

A study out of Bowling Green State University found a dangerous fungus present on needles used to inject drugs.

Archaeologists recently began digging in a field in Granville after a perfect circle appeared in their subsurface imaging. They believe it could be the remnants of an ancient Hopewell earthwork.

The American burying beetle nearly died off decades ago. Here’s how a network of conservationists are reintroducing it to the state.

The Southeast Ohio Fibershed wants to create a supply chain for clothes to be made locally, from fiber to final cut.

Housing affordability is attracting people to the Midwest and Ohio, reversing a decades-long trend of out-migration.

Ohio State University has tested 6,000 ticks from all over the state for bacteria, viruses and disease-causing parasites over the last year.