Statehouse News Bureau

Last year, Ohio pizza chef Brittany Saxton earned her sixth title at the World Pizza Games in the fastest dough stretch category. This month, she’s turning her focus to a new challenge: baking.

Incoming and returning members of the Ohio House GOP caucus on Wednesday evening unanimously nominated outgoing Senate President and Rep.-elect Matt Huffman (R-Lima).

Vance’s former Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan, says the Ohio senator is likely to aggressively attack Harris-Walz during the debate Tuesday night to appeal to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Republican Stanley Aronoff was a veteran legislator known as an advocate for the arts, and was dedicated to development in his hometown of Cincinnati.

Ohio could become the seventh state to pass abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer.

Ohio votes down Issue 1, rejecting conservative lawmakers' attempt to change the constitutional amendment process ahead of a vote on reproductive rights this November.

Voters in Ohio will decide on Tuesday whether to make it harder to pass future constitutional amendments, including one on the ballot in November that would codify abortion access.

Ohio wants to become a key part in scaling up the hydrogen economy through a federal clean energy initiative. Advocates hope it could be an economic and environmental win for the state.

Ohio Republicans set up an August special election to decide whether to make it harder to amend the state constitution, before voters might see an amendment on abortion access.

Mike Curtin, a former Democratic state representative and former newspaper editor, weighs-in on the resolution being considered that would make it harder to pass a change to Ohio's constitution.