Politics & Elections

House Bill 183 would require Ohio K-12 schools and colleges to mandate that students could only use the bathroom or locker room that matches their sex assigned at birth.

“This whole focus on party over people and power over people, it’s not the way a democracy works”

Ohio’s photo voter ID law took effect a year ago. Since then, the share of provisional ballots rejected for lack of ID has more than tripled.

Depending on how an eventual proposal is crafted, both men could stand to gain substantially

Republicans have won every seat up for election since the state added party labels to the ballot in 2021

The Citizens Not Politicians proposed amendment would replace politicians drawing maps with a citizen-commission

A flurry of recent surveys have shown a substantial share of undecided voters ahead of Tuesday

A look at who's funding Bernie Moreno, Matt Dolan and Frank LaRose

Ohioans submitted more than 4,000 comments regarding Gov. Mike DeWine’s revised proposed administrative rules, according to records obtained by the Capital Journal.

“What ends up happening is things like a very weighty amendment, dealing with important issues that we absolutely should not lose the deadline for, but doing it in a very rushed way”

But more than 100,000 18-year-olds in Ohio remained unregistered

With less than a month before the primary election on March 19, the candidates squared off again

DeWine made Sam Randazzo the head of PUCO. New allegations say Randazzo had a corrupt relationship with FirstEnergy dating back to 2010

An analysis of Ohio's junior Senator

The $6.6 million Brown raised in the most recent reporting period is more than triple what his challengers raised

After a year of big lifts for Cuyahoga County, the executive takes stock at the quarter pole

“We are preparing litigation to defend transgender youth and their constitutional right to receive medically necessary healthcare”

Plan mentions high risk to LGBTQ community impacted by gender-affirming care rules, HB 68

Ohio transgender youth who aren’t already on a treatment plan won’t be able to access gender-affirming care after House Bill 68 takes effect on April 23.

Both laws — banning gender-affirming care and local flavored tobacco regulations — are now set to take effect at the end of April.