Cincinnati Edition

The Brood X cicadas are ready to emerge in Greater Cincinnati to the delight or horror of many of us. This brood has been underground for the past 17 years and they will begin surfacing when the ground reaches 64 degrees, which usually happens in late April or early May.

Organizers in Dayton are celebrating the imminent opening of Gem City Market, a new cooperative grocery store in one of the city's lower-income communities.

After the indictments of multiple Cincinnati City Council members, local voters will get the chance to weigh in on how members of council could be removed from office if future corruption cases arise. Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman and Council Member Betsy Sundermann have both introduced charter amendments addressing corruption.

Before the world got its first glimpse of the Land of Oz, its creator, L. Frank Baum, was already a storyteller. First performing as an actor, he then created compelling marketing materials for his father's oil enterprise and ultimately waxed poetic to his own children at home, as well as the children of others through his wondrous retail operation on the American frontier.

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While it sounds arcane, zoning code is something akin to a city's DNA. The rules about what can be built and where someone can build it determine how a city looks and feels, and sometimes, who can live in its various neighborhoods.

Many of us have been living life for the past year in a world of virtual meetings. We've been jumping from one video call to another, connecting with co-workers and classmates on our laptops, cellphones and other devices. If you're feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and a little grumpy with all of this screen time you're not alone. Jeremy Bailenson, a professor and founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, calls it Zoom fatigue.

A car repair service in Covington is making sure working mothers have reliable transportation to get their children off to school and get to their jobs on time. Samaritan Car Care Clinic was founded in 2007 with the mission of offering free basic car maintenance for people in need.

Recognizable company names like Siemens and DHL with large operations in the Cincinnati region are just a couple of the more than 250 businesses with a presence here. Trade between Kentucky and Ohio and the European Union is significant.

Three urban hikers embark on a 61-mile odyssey through Appalachian wilderness and document their journey in an upcoming film Why We Walk . The group originally formed in 2015 and began walking the streets of Cincinnati from Findlay Market to Northside, Walnut Hills and across the bridge to Covington. Their backgrounds are disparate, growing up in Ethiopia, the Congo and Cincinnati's Winton Terrace, but they found a common bond in the simple pleasure of walking.