Athens county

Athens County Department of Job and Family Services Director Jean Demosky was indicted last week on multiple felonies for alleged corrupt activity for theft in office. Athens County Commissioner Charlie Adkins was indicted for intimidating a witness related to this case.

After receiving historic amounts of rainfall earlier this year, Athens County is embarking on a project to map flooding and erosion patterns.

A team of locals in Athens County is trying to make former mine land economically productive again. Instead of harvesting coal, they’re creating a community forest.

Athens County Board of Elections is contacting voters affected by the error to return to vote on Issue 23, which would abolish the city charter.

Pumpkin the cat has become a beloved local icon in Athens, where he lives at the County Board of Elections.

Don MacRostie has been hand crafting mandolins in southeast Ohio for nearly 50 years.

The county adopted the idea of friendship benches from Zimbabwe. It aims to address social isolation by bringing trained health workers into underserved parts of the community.

Thursday night's NFL Draft gifted a long-awaited - and much anticipated - present to fans of the Cincinnati Bengals: the Queen City's long-suffering...

"I'm up here for all those kids in Athens and in Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school," LSU quarterback Joe Burrow said when accepting the trophy.

Just over a year after the death of her son at Ohio University, Kathleen Wiant says the indictment of nine people is an important step toward finding…