OX-B's announced a new Columbus-area location at 7370 Sawmill Road near Dublin; it would be the chain's ninth spot and no opening date has been set.

A cozy "living-room" bar called The Blind Pour is targeting a late-July opening in Uptown Westerville at 20 S. State St.

A juvenile was wounded early Thursday after multiple rounds were fired into a home on Summer Haven Drive in east Columbus. Police recovered shell casings and are investigating.

A Columbus Business First ranking shows Central Ohio banks’ commercial and industrial loans topped $248.9B in Q1, a 17.5% year‑over‑year jump driven by local hiring and deals.

Dublin, Marysville and Union County have wired a 35‑mile stretch of U.S. 33 into a living lab for connected and autonomous vehicle tests, with early safety gains and industry interest.

Grove City police responded to a shooting on Parlin Drive on July 16; one person was hospitalized and another was taken into custody while detectives investigate.

Columbus State is proposing a 10-year, 1.9-mill levy to fund tuition-free community college for Franklin County graduates and expanded student supports.

A Grove City man is accused of luring a visitor via TikTok to his Parlin Drive home and shooting him after allegations involving his 11‑year‑old daughter. The case is pending.

A 1.6M‑sqft Rickenbacker warehouse traded again for $137M, its second sale in about a year and a sign of rising investor interest around Columbus’s freight hub.

Yats will close its Grandview Heights restaurant on Aug. 20, 2026; its food truck will keep serving core Cajun dishes across central Ohio.

A weeklong METRICH sweep in Richland County led to 24 arrests, 60 felony indictments and the seizure of illegal firearms.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has put central Ohio on an Air Quality Alert. Scattered storms are likely tonight with a stormier Saturday possible.

An Ohio appeals court has allowed involuntary medication for an Ashtabula woman accused of killing her mother, citing a 2026 law that lengthens competency-restoration timeframes.