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This week WOSU News takes its microphones and notebooks to school. In recent years, Columbus Public Schools and other big-city districts have been forced…

The number of severely overweight children has increased exponentially since the 1980s. For years it did not seem as if there was an end in sight to the…

A supermajority of the district’s nearly 300 substitute teachers filed authorization cards with the State Employment Relations Board earlier this month.

Hospitals have always treated obese patients, but the number of overweight patients has steadily increased since the 1990s. That creates problems for…

Gov. Mike DeWine warns Ohioans that unless we take action to slow community spread, more students are at risk of not being able to attend school.

Updated: 4:41 p.m., Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine got a call from President Trump Friday afternoon after missing out on a meeting with the president Thursday. “I appreciated that very much,” DeWine said. “He wanted to see how I was doing and he said he had been told last night by the Secret Service that I actually tested negative. So, he was just calling to see how I was getting along. We had a good, good conversation.”

On the first weekday after the Thanksgiving holiday, Ohio hit yet another record for COVID-19 patients in hospitals, and for those in intensive care units…

More coronavirus testing and more protective masks will soon be available statewide as Ohio officials work to continue flattening Ohio’s COVID-19 curve....

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and health officials from across the state urged Ohioans Tuesday to continue signing up for Pfizer and Modena COVID-19 vaccine appointments following a recommendation by federal agencies to temporarily pause administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot.

COVID-19 cases shot up again in Ohio Thursday, with 9,131 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, and hospitals are becoming overwhelmed, according to data from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH.)