Tuesday is a primary/special Election Day in Ohio — an easy one to miss amid the political excitement in the months following last fall’s general election. But it is important all the same. Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. (Thank you, poll workers). If you filled out an ...

Ohio lawmakers finally acted in concert to rid Ohioans of a nearly $400,000 a day burden when they voted to end the subsidies for two outdated and unprofitable coal-fired power plants — one of which is in Indiana. The Ohio Valley Electric Corp. plants had been getting bailed out by a ...

CHEERS to everyone who took the time to register to vote in the upcoming May 6 primary/special election. A few people have cast early, in-person ballots. The rest of us need to remember to vote on Election Day. JEERS to the violent storms that caused damages and sparked power outages all ...

If it seems as though in recent years the atmosphere has become more charged with hate and division — perhaps even to the point of being dangerous — you’re not imagining things. Hate crimes are on the rise. To examine one category, the FBI reports anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by ...

As efforts from Washington, D.C., to reduce the size of the federal government continue with mixed results, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., was right to urge U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reverse course on a reduction in force effort ...

A project 10 years in the making was unveiled this weekend with the grand opening of the Hellbender Preserve and Recreational Trail. This new trail, set to be a link in the Great American Rail Trail and the first multi-use trail in Jefferson County, will join the various recreational ...