40+ min ago  (300+ words) The 29th Annual Juneteenth Ohio Festival begins Friday at Genoa Park. Juneteenth marks the day that the last enslaved Africans were freed in Texas in 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. The day has long been celebrated by the…...

6+ hour, 20+ min ago  (363+ words) A group says building more duplexes could create additional affordable housing in central Ohio while building wealth for homeowners. The Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio released a study this week that finds typical families could reasonably expect to earn…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago  (581+ words) Ahead of Columbus' Pride festival and march, queer lawmakers came together Friday to discuss advocacy strategies at the fifth annual Out Elected Officials luncheon at Stonewall Columbus. "Tomorrow we will be celebrating. We'll be having a lot of fun. We'll…...

6+ hour, 25+ min ago  (272+ words) Columbus Zoo announced Friday the plans for the new John F. Wolfe Aquarium. The project was made in part from a $50 million gift, the largest charitable gift received by the zoo, from The Robert F. Wolfe and Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation The 100, 000 square…...

8+ hour, 31+ min ago  (868+ words) Where can you see a pair of lions carved from Styrofoam, a statue of a fish dressed like Marilyn Monroe and a metal tree crafted from stripper poles all under one roof? Just ask Darl Schaaff for a tour of…...

12+ hour, 1+ min ago  (349+ words) Beer, it turns out, was important to early American armies. So important that George Washington scrawled a recipe for "small beer" in a notebook in 1757, when he was a colonel in the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War....

12+ hour, 2+ min ago  (829+ words) Federal immigration officers often use facial recognition technology to identify immigrants in the field. Now, a newly revealed document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to give local police working on its behalf the same type of technology....

16+ hour, 31+ min ago  (104+ words) This episode originally aired on Jan. 6, 2026. Columbus City Council has backed initiatives to revitalize the downtown and support minority-owned and small business growth. One of these programs is called Ground Floor Growth which began three years ago, with a goal…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (244+ words) The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation has released a report on the state of Black civic power in Ohio. It's the first county-level study of Black midterm non-voters in the state. One of the main findings is that more than…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1445+ words) As the bell rings at Collinwood High School on a gray, windy day in May, students trickle out of the front doors for what is likely one of the final times in the 100-year-old school's history. Standing on the front…...