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An Ohio House bill proposes giving property owners, especially farmers, more protections when their land is taken by a government agency through eminent domain. However, some opponents believe it could hinder economic development.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said lawmakers should accept “the will of the people” after Tuesday‘s vote on abortion access and legal marijuana, but he still wants changes to the latter law.

State legislators have until May 9 to change a law that could keep President Joe Biden off the Ohio ballot this fall, but the Republican leader of the Ohio Senate says Biden's name will be there.

At the end of some years, lawmaking stretches into the early morning hours as legislators race to get bills to the finish line—the governor’s desk—before their terms end.

A Republican-backed bill that says K-12 and higher education institutions in Ohio must require students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates got some slight changes Wednesday but is still in committee.

Ohio residents can visit the Rock Hall for free this Sunday as part of a week of events leading up to the induction ceremony.

Ohio state lawmakers are back in Columbus this week, after taking several months off so most of them could run for reelection.

Jo Ann Davidson, who served six years as the speaker of the Ohio House before going on to other public service work, was 97.

Ohio’s attorney general announced this week that six Ohioans have been indicted for illegal voting between 2008 and 2020.

House Bill 274 nearly doubles the state’s homestead exemption, expanding it to the first $50,000 of a home’s fair market value from about $26,200 under current law.