Politicians remember Columbus Dispatch reporter Lee Leonard as dogged and fair. His colleagues remember him as kind and helpful.

Around 200 community leaders, advocates and survivors came together for the 2025 Human Trafficking Prevention Awareness Statehouse Advocacy Day. “Human trafficking is an issue in Ohio. We believe it’s a serious crime and a serious public health issue that affects the people in Ohio more than you might think.

A political group aimed at supporting LGBTQ+ Ohioans says 46 members of the minority community ran for elected office across the state in the last two general elections. Named the “Pride Caucus,” the organization aided 31 LGBTQ+ candidates in 2023’s elections and 15 on the ballot last November.

The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal. Republish photo only with original story.) Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, who was formerly the frontrunner to become governor in 2026, is heading to the U.S. Senate.

Monday marks National Holocaust Remembrance Day, and this year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where more than 1.1 million Jewish people

Today marks National Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Ohio Statehouse is hosting a memorial ceremony to commemorate the day. The ceremony is being presented by the Ohio

JD Vance, an Ohio native with strong ties to Columbus, will be sworn in as vice president Monday. Vance, the now-former senator from Ohio who was tapped as presidential candidate Donald Trump's running mate this summer, grew up in Middletown, Ohio, as he details in his 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis ."

"Dumbifying" Ohio's world class college and universities with anti-intellectual rules is not the way to improve higher ed. It will stifle it.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed earlier this week. “The death penalty is not effective ...

Democrats and Republicans in the Ohio Statehouse have again joined to try to stop the death penalty in the state.

Beachwood, announced he has been assigned to three House Committees for the 136th General Assembly, after being sworn in on Jan. 6 at the Ohio Statehouse

After two hours of testimony from roughly three dozen people, a committee chair opted not to advance a proposal to move a casino license from southeastern Indiana 160 miles north