Five months ago, the board of trustees and administrators at Youngstown State University failed miserably on their test of accountability and transparency to the taxpayers who fund their institution. Few can forget the justifiable outrage vented by a wide swath of the YSU community and others ...

Springtime traditionally ushers in renewal and improvement on many fronts. Nowhere may that be more visible than on major highways in Ohio and the Mahoning Valley in what promises to be a bustling construction season. In Mahoning and Trumbull counties alone, the Ohio Department of ...

ORCHID: To members of Austintown-based Knights of Columbus Council 3936 for their continuous volunteer work to help those in need throughout the community. Among their praiseworthy activities are building beds for children who lack them for the Sleep in Heavenly Peace organization, making ...

Social media can be damaging, especially to young people. That’s no secret, but what to do about it remains a mystery. Ohio lawmakers are tossing around the idea of banning social media and the use of electronic devices during class, according to a report by News 5 Cleveland. House Bill ...

Students in the Youngstown City School District lost out on the beginning of their school year in August and spent the first month or so of it at home learning virtually as the district and the teachers’ union attempted to hammer out a new contract. That won’t happen again in 2024-25, ...

You’re not imagining things. Taxes just keep getting higher and higher — at least when it comes to property taxes. Axios, an American news website based in Arlington, Virginia, reports median property taxes in Ohio rose 23.1% from 2019 to 2023. That’s higher than the national average ...