COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Furthering a trend during the decades-long deindustrialization of the Midwestern United States, Ohio’s northern Rust Belt cities continue to lose population. But as some cities ...

The latest Census of Agriculture found Ohio lost more than 300,000 acres of farmland between 2017 and 2022. Ohio is losing farmland. Between 2017 and 2022, the state lost more than 300,000 acres, ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio has lost one seat in Congress as a result of new census figures released Monday, marking the sixth-straight decade of congressional declines for the state. Prompted by sluggish ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—A federal appeals court has sided with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost in his lawsuit attempting to force the U.S. Census Bureau to provide detailed population data needed to meet the ...

Ohio’s slow growth rate means it will lose a Congressional seat, which local leaders and experts said could affect funding for programs at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the state’s role in ...

This April 5, 2020, photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) Ohio’s Republican attorney general announced a settlement in ...