When it comes to recycling plastic, most people check for a number on the bottom of every container. But what does that number actually mean, and why are some plastics not recyclable? This installment of our series, Reduce, Reuse, Refocus traces the life cycle of a piece of plastic.

North Akron has been home to immigrants from Nepal, Italy, and – 200 years ago -- Ireland. So what happened to the area that was once known as Old Dublin?

This story was originally published on January 22, 2019. Castalia, Ohio, is home to The Blue Hole, which was a tourist attraction for almost a century. WKSU’s “OH Really?” finds out why it’s been off-limits to the public for the last 29 years.

Deer hunting season is winding down in Ohio . As it does, we’re considering a question about Ohio wildlife from a WKSU listener. Nicholas Kavalec asked our OH Really? team about apex predators—those at the top of the food chain. We connected him with a wildlife manager at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) in Akron.

Raw, unpasteurized goat milk can be bought in Ohio for use as pet food. But between the teat and the street, farmers have to do a lot of work to make the milk safe for human consumption. In this installment of WKSU’s “OH Really?,” we try to help a listener who wants to “drink local” and buy fresh, raw goat milk right from the farm.

It's a joint that's spun into one of the region’s most popular fast-food chains. But at some point during its 85-year history, something about Swensons changed. Many people probably never noticed, but one man did, and he reached out to us. In this installment of “ OH Really? ,” we try to solve the case of the missing apostrophe.

Heavy rain this spring pushed local waterways to higher-than normal levels , and listener Patrick Pierquet from Wooster asks “ OH Really? ” how that could affect wildlife. Pierquet was an avid kayaker who still checks water levels every day. “They’ve been high or very high for the last four months, which is very unusual. So my thought was: how does that change the ecology of rivers?” The Cuyahoga’s levels have spiked several times in that period – including on the 50 th anniversary of the last

One year ago, immigration agents raided a Salem meat processing facility and arrested more than 140 undocumented immigrants. In this installment of “OH Really,” a listener asks for an update. Debbie Toder from West Akron said she felt terrible when she heard about the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids at the FreshMark facility. “I was wondering what happened to the workers and their families and communities that were affected by the ICE raids this past summer,” she said. According

State lawmakers have been debating a change to Ohio’s energy policy that could save two nuclear plants. Both are owned by First Energy Solutions, once a subsidiary of First Energy. But First Energy has shed the entity and become a fully-regulated utility, which sparked a listener’s curiosity. She sent in a question to our OH Really? team.

It’s orange barrel season and one of our listeners asked our OH Really team an interesting question about sharing the road in construction zones. We helped him find the answer. On route 8 in northern Summit County, traffic has been reduced to two lanes in each direction and concrete barriers are set up as crews resurface a six mile section of the road. There are signs throughout the construction zone that illustrate listener Seth Marks’ concern. “Why are the instructions often--not always--that