The city's first recreational cannabis dispensary may open as soon as May, according to officials with Backroad Wellness.

A funding package is moving forward in Portsmouth City Council with the goal of building a splash pad in Market Square.

Residents in southern Jackson County and surrounding areas experienced an apparent earthquake on Monday, according to the U.S ...

Did you feel the earth shake Monday afternoon? Well, you probably did and it was the second reported earthquake in the past two months. The U.S. Geological Survey reported there was a 2.9 magnitude ...

Two earthquakes were reported in southeastern Ohio Monday. A 3.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded in southern Jackson County ...

Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested in connection to a robbery in Scioto County. According to the New ...

John Daniel Caraway, age 60, of Atlanta, Georgia passed away on January 15, 2025 at Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center in ...

Mammoth trucks and front-end loaders are busy digging and filling a $650 million Ohio landfill with radioactive and hazardous ...

Residents said they're fighting a bad reputation since crimes — often sensationalized — happen everywhere, not just in Portsmouth.

Seven or eight hundred thousand years ago, our section of the Ohio River was an insignificant stream flowing north, and the region to the south which was to become the ancestral homeland of hoopies ...

A man tried for the shooting death of a Portsmouth teen in 2023 will serve at least 20 years in prison. Antonio Milar was ...

An Ohio man who cut off an ankle monitor, stole a car from a treatment provider and then led authorities on a high-speed chase was sentenced earlier this week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.