Ohio

State of Ohio employees are no longer allowed to download or use TikTok or a number of other Chinese-owned apps on state-owned devices for security reasons, under an executive order issued by Gov. Mike DeWine.

More Dayton-area cities have installed new automated license plate reading devices in the past several months and at least one other local police department said it wants to add them next year.

The technology is part of the snow removal plan Mayor Justin Bibb introduced after Winter Storm Landon in January, and it includes a tablet, mapping software and location trackers for snowplows.

Ohio and 39 other states have reached a $391.5 million settlement with Google over the company's deceptive location-tracking practices — the largest multistate privacy settlement in U.S. history.

Expecting its first group of graduates in spring 2024, a new bachelor of science in engineering technology program at Ohio State University at Lima could improve the talent pipeline for area manufacturers.

The Ohio Tax Credit Authority agreed this week to a new tax credit that has an estimated value of $71.3 million, and it is aimed at boosting a new Honda electric vehicle battery plant located near Dayton.

Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish’s second request to use $10 million in opioid settlement money to help develop innovative ideas for addressing addiction again met resistance on Monday.

Students of the new program will go through an approximately 12-week interactive learning course that includes the design, installation and service of broadband networks. The program will serve as an industry talent pipeline.

More than 40 state agencies in Ohio will begin using fleet management technology by Geotab to improve operational efficiencies in areas like fuel consumption, route design, idling and the application of materials like sand and salt.

The Ohio Department of Transportation has determined where a number of federally funded charging stations should be deployed across the state as part of a plan to spend more than $100 million in infrastructure funding.

The BroadbandOhio Community Accelerator program is a collaborative effort between BroadbandOhio, Heartland Forward, the Benton Institute and The Ohio State University Office of Extension.

One county leader wants to form a $10 million Opioid Innovation Fund to support and test new strategies for combating the opioid epidemic, but County Council is divided over whether it’s needed and how it might work.

The state's budget will allot more than $26 million to colleges for advanced manufacturing and skilled trades training hubs, capital improvements and community projects like broadband expansion efforts.

Ohio Chief Information Officer Ervan Rodgers explains his approach to infrastructure consolidation, how to make a smart transition to cloud-based services and how the Innovate Ohio program will bolster citizen services.