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Cuyahoga County will direct a share of its opioid settlement funds to a new behavioral health and addiction treatment center the MetroHealth System plans to open in Cleveland Heights. The public hospital system is building a 110-bed expansion to its Cleveland Heights Medical Center at Severance Circle. Construction on the $42 million facility is expected to wrap up in 2022, according to a MetroHealth press release.

Ohio’s K-12 students should be learning remotely, starting now, and not return to the classroom until Jan. 11, according to recommendations from the Ohio Education Association (OEA), the union representing most of the state’s teachers.

People in the U.K. are receiving the first doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. We'll meet some of the elderly people who were the first to get the vaccine.

Gov. Mike DeWine’s decision to sign the so-called Stand Your Ground gun bill into law isn’t sitting well with some city and state leaders who thought...

Another member of the NPR Music team previews two of the albums she's looking forward to hearing in 2021.

Updated: 2:26 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2020 Cleveland’s baseball team confirmed Thursday afternoon that the team has worked out a deal with the New York Mets to trade Francisco Lindor and pitcher Carlos Carrasco for four players. In the deal, Cleveland will get shortstops Amed Rosario and Andres Gimenez and minor-league prospects Josh Wolf, a right-handed pitcher, and Isaiah Greene, an outfielder.

Hamilton County, like the rest of the state and the nation, is seeing an increasing number of positive COVID-19 cases. In the last week, there have been...

From now through Election Day, ideastream is answering your questions about voting. Mike emailed us to ask about the cost of postage for mail-in ballots. Ohioans are responsible for covering postage when they return their ballots ahead of the Nov. 2 deadline, but the cost is low for most voters. And for those dropping ballots off at the Board of Elections directly, no postage is required, according to Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office.

From now through Election Day, ideastream is answering your questions about voting. One listener asked how the state’s electoral votes are apportioned. Ohio has 18 electoral votes. Sixteen of those represent its congressional districts, with two additional votes provided to every state – just as each state gets two seats in the U.S. Senate.

As in-person classes resume for the first time since March, Ohio State University says 80 students and 12 faculty and staff members returning to campus…