The plan would beef up reporting requirements for drillers, but critics say the proposal is still far too weak.

The Republican-controlled Ohio Senate is nearing approval of a pilot program that would tie welfare benefits to clean drug tests.

There’s one thing all Americans share at birth. It’s the experience of having a heel stick, a jab that draws blood used for all types of screening. How much can doctors learn from a few drops of blood squeezed from the heel?

Columbus police say a toddler was killed and two more children were seriously hurt late Wednesday when the motorized bike they were riding pulled out of an alley into a street.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is announcing plans to limit the prescribing of painkillers through the state’s hospital emergency rooms.

Many young adults eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on President Obama’s healthcare law. Over the past couple years, the law has allowed thousands of young adults have been able to remain on their parents’ health care insurance plans. WOSU talked with one man who saved thousands of dollars because of the provision.

The United States Supreme Court will announce in June whether it decided to uphold the Affordable Care Act. With hospitals facing possible funding cuts and other changes, WOSU reports on what Central Ohio’s two largest healthcare systems are doing while they wait for the Supreme Court decision.

Ohio officials say they will allow for the return of five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures last fall before he committed suicide.