Ohio Government News

Two state senators and one representative spoke to a gathering of media and supporters Tuesday in the Ohio Statehouse, telling them a bill they are backing would put Ohio on more solid financial ground by reducing costs in the system and improving the quality of care through an expansion of Ohio's Home First program, which allows individuals in ...

A Hispanic group filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a judge to stop Ohio from canceling vehicle registrations for thousands of people if they do not provide certain documentation.

COOLVILLE, Ohio -- 'Here's home,' Lori Hopkins said, gesturing toward a dilapidated camper parked along a gravel road in the hills of southeastern Ohio.

COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday granted clemency to 78 inmates, none of them on death row, after a painstaking review of three years of requests extending into his predecessor's term.

Prices at Ohio gas pumps have jumped 12 cents in the last week, ahead of the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel period.

Prices at Ohio gas pumps have jumped 12 cents in the last week, ahead of the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel period.

A new report predicts more than half of all adults in Ohio will be overweight in less than ten years.

The intense debate in Washington over the future of our health care system has been largely focused on two central issues: how to give more Americans access to quality health coverage and how to accomplish this goal while also tackling the spiraling cost of health care not only for families and businesses, but local, state and federal governments.

WASHINGTON - Ohio residents deemed most at risk for the H1N1 virus should have been vaccinated by now, and vaccination efforts now are focusing on a larger at-risk population, according to the state health director.

COLUMBUS - Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has been named the recipient of two American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Labor Market Information Improvement grants aimed at building a skilled workforce for "green jobs" in Ohio.

WASHINGTON, D.C. If your phone rings Thursday night, it might be U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson asking you to participate in a telephone town hall meeting for the residents of Ohio's 6th District.

Ohio lawmakers were deadlocked once again on how to fix Ohio's budget, as a Senate Republican proposal blending most of Gov.

Nearly 47,000 Ohio drivers received a letter from the Ohio BMV, asking them to submit proper I.D. by December 8 or have their registration canceled.

After six years and umpteen trays of brownies, retired steelworker Dominic Baragona won the ear of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.

Ohio has a weight problem and it's growing. A new report claims that by 2018 more than half the population in the state will be obese.

A report released Tuesday shows increasing obesity rates in Ohio and across the country will result in higher health care spending for states and individuals.

The Ohio Telecom Modernization Act of 2009, which has been introduced in the General Assembly as Senate Bill 162 and House Bill 276, is a bipartisan, common-sense approach to modernizing Ohio's outdated telecommunications laws.

GROVE CITY -- A group of bar owners is fired up about Ohio's three-year-old smoking ban.

Ohio became the first state Friday to adopt a one-drug approach to lethal injections, a method used routinely on house pets but never tried on humans.

The Ohio Department of Corrections announced Friday it has chosen a new method to execute death row inmates.