SHADYSIDE — The state is offering resources to help local health departments streamline the contact tracing process. In recent weeks and with the apparent waning of the pandemic, the Belmont County Health Department has been utilizing the Public Consulting Group for contact ...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — More signs of normalcy appeared during Monday’s City Council meeting, with council President Jim Velas announcing a planned return to pre-COVID-19 in-person meetings. Council also reinstated delinquent utility connection fees after suspending them during the ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of the vaccines that will prevent it have surfaced haunting memories for Americans who lived through an earlier time when the country was swept by a virus that, for so long, appeared to have no cure or way to prevent it. They were ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Thursday the U.S. will swiftly donate a first tranche of 25 million doses of surplus vaccine overseas through the U.N.-backed COVAX program, promising infusions for South and Central America, Asia, Africa and others at a time of glaring ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is set to fully reopen in less than two weeks and do away with virtually all mask and social distancing requirements for vaccinated people. But officials who regulate workplaces in the state aren’t ready to go that far and that’s angering business ...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Activities are resuming after this week’s lifting of COVID-19 health restrictions by the state, but according to coronavirus.ohio.gov, Belmont County deaths related to the pandemic increased from 171 reported Tuesday to 174 on Wednesday. No further information, such as ...