"Avoid screens before bed" is one of the most common pieces of sleep advice. But what if the real problem isn't screen time—it's the way we use social media at ...

Hocking County is part of the Athens-Hocking Solid Waste District, which is dedicated to educating the community about safe disposal of solid waste and recycling. The Solid Waste District helps ...

The trial of a Meigs County man on an assault charge, set for July 1, was called off by a judge in Athens County Common Pleas Court ...

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio is currently undertaking its biennial jury selection process.

Long one of Ohio’s most popular attractions, Hocking Hills State Park has seen a surge in tourism in the last decade.

As much as sports are the ultimate connector, bringing people together through love and admiration of a game, that’s not ...

A 2020 survey from the Association of American Universities of more than 180,000 undergraduate and graduate students found that nearly 17% identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, queer or ...

Early July marks the end of Ohio’s strawberry season, but for some strawberry growers, strawberry season was over before it ...

The main characters in Jerry Roth’s new horror novel, “Ghost From a Yard Sale,” live in a spooky old renovated Catholic ...

A lone star tick found crawling on a visitor in Nelsonville was removed and promptly burned with a lighter while recreating outdoors in June, as health officials increase efforts to ...

Following is the definitive history of Halloween in Athens — that is, modern Halloween in Athens. We really can’t say what those Ohio Company colonists back in the late 1700s were doing on Halloween ...

Athens Council President Chris Knisley (from left) and Mayor Steve Patterson share a golden sledgehammer as Rep. Jay Edwards, Lt. Gov. John Husted, JobsOhio CEO JP Nauseef and Brig. Gen. Matthew S.