When the City of Columbus announced its recycling program under former Mayor Michael Coleman, it offered recycling bins to residents with 300- or 90-gallon garbage cans. However, the city did not give them to multifamily complexes, which were buildings with five or more residential units, ...

Smart paint and smarter pedestrians: The Ohio State School for the Blind is implementing a paint invention that allows the visually impaired to cross streets more safely. “Smart paint” is being applied to the edges of crosswalks and is made with elements that cause “smart ...

Ohio State has helped the city of Columbus pull ahead of major cities like St. Louis, Atlanta, Denver, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Portland, Oregon, Philadelphia and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. Columbus took the No. 1 spot on Forbes magazine’s list of emerging venture capital startup cities edging out ...

As the Bird and Lime scooters face new regulations from the city of Columbus, a Columbus man is running a grassroots movement to help fight for dockless rideshare companies. Donovan O’Neil, founder of Scooter Customers Organized to Oppose Temporary, Excessive Regulation, or SCOOTERCbus, knew that ...

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announced on Wednesday a set of proposed legislation and emergency regulations for electric scooters and dockless bikes, which would include Lime and Bird devices that are already in the city. Ginther said in a video uploaded by the city of the ...

Rental scooters, which have been a big hit among students this semester, will operate under a new set of rules. The city of Columbus moved forward with new regulations for shared bikes and scooters operating in the city on Tuesday. “Shared mobility devices present a ...

Rental scooters have garnered national headlines as they sweep into communities across the country, receiving mixed reviews. Lime, a rental bike and scooter company, announced last week it was officially operating on campus in conjunction with Ohio State after making its debut in Columbus in ...

Political Pulse is a weekly column with the goal of giving objective, to-the-point information to readers on current political events. Sports and politics collide in #SaveTheCrew movement Ohio Attorney General and Republican candidate for governor Mike DeWine joined the City of Columbus in suing Major ...

The Ohio State Board of Trustees met Friday and unanimously approved agenda items including several major construction projects.   Design and construction contracts The Board approved entering into a professional contract for $70.8 million to seek initial designs on a new a hospital tower. University ...

The city of Columbus issued a nitrate advisory Monday to Columbus residents living in parts of the city receiving water supplied by the Dublin Road Water Plant. A release from the city of Columbus warns residents in portions of Columbus not to give tap water ...