COVID-19 isn’t the only virus to worry about: Flu season is upon us. As with COVID, the best way to protect yourself and others against the fl…
More than a dozen properties owned by Ohio University — including parts of The Ridges, several buildings in Uptown Athens and the largest know…
Rumpke Waste & Recycling, a Cincinnati-based waste removal service, received permits Tuesday to take over the Athens-Hocking Landfill in N…
The results for the Athens County 2020 census are in — and they show a steep decline in population across the county and region.
The Outdoor Recreation Council of Appalachia just scored big again with another large pool of funds for outdoor recreation in the region.
For the first time, the local health systems across Athens, Fairfield, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Madison, Mason (WV), Meigs, Noble, Pickaway, …
Through a state grant program that opened on Monday, internet service providers can receive grants to connect homes and businesses to broadban…
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By Keri Johnson
Local legislators reacted Monday to the deepening crisis unfolding in Afghanistan, after the Taliban seized the capital city of Kabul on Sunda…
A Logan man died as a result of a two-vehicle crash in neighboring Hocking County last week.
Through a gauntlet of protesters the members of the Ohio House Public Utilities Committee walked, hearing pleas, rebukes and near the line’s e…
Two juvenile teens were arrested today (Thursday) for reckless homicide in connection with the death of a Chillicothe woman Sept. 2 at Old Man…
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In light of the recent tragic events in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the Ohio Alliance for Innovation in Population Health (The Alliance)…
In late 2013, The Athens NEWS published several stories about plans for a major petrochemical plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia, 32 miles …
A new academic study linking the amount of radon present in a home to its proximity to deep-shale oil and gas “fracking” wells cites Athens Co…
A regional opioid conference last Wednesday, June 5, in Piketon, an hour west of Athens, featured a surprising keynote speaker – an executive …
The Scioto Valley Local School District School Board on Monday announced its decision to close a middle school in Piketon immediately, due to …
Editor’s note: This is part of a series that the Pike County News Watchman published over the past two weeks about concerns related to contami…
A group of Ohio University biology students spent their summer wading waist-deep through icy stream waters in Pennsylvania, gently overturning…
Citizens are being invited to provide input into the latest update of the Wayne National Forest Management Plan, which was last updated in 200…
Scheduled auctions of oil and gas leases for two small Wayne National Forest parcels northeast of Marietta have been suspended, as a result of…
About two dozen individuals were exposed to an unknown substance at Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe Wednesday morning.
Throughout Ohio, the remnants of an ancient and highly intelligent culture can be observed in the Ohio earthworks. The Newark Octagon, for ins…
Even though Ohio University at its Edison Biotechnology Institute (EBI) has, up until recently, been researching cannabis to discover new ther…
An informational meeting Wednesday night about potentially leasing 31,900 acres of mineral rights for oil and gas development on the Wayne Nat…
The big guns came out Friday against charter/community bill of rights petitions in three Ohio counties, including Athens. With the deadline gr…