Two local health systems are making big investments into medical education and research at two Ohio universities. www.daytondailynews.com/local/area-h...

Specialist Fourth Class Jim Skaggs was playing a guitar in his bunk in a Vietnamese village in October 1969 when he met a young Miamisburg man who would not only become his best friend, but also the person who would save his life. www.daytondailynews.com/local/man-sa...

Kettering schools plans to terminate a Kettering Fairmont High School teacher’s contract, suspending her pay following approval from the school board due to various types of alleged misconduct. www.daytondailynews.com/community/ke...

Kettering City Council and Kettering Board of Education recognized the Fairmont High School girls basketball team for winning the the 2026 Division I girls state championship in a 61-55 victory against Cincinnati Princeton.

Abortions that took place in Montgomery County in 2025 decreased nearly 28% compared to 2024, a new state report showed, which also revealed statewide abortion numbers increased during that same time frame.

Surrounded by family and friends at Boonshoft’s recent Match Day, 129 medical students from the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine learned together where they will complete their residencies.

Winsupply, a distributor of residential and commercial construction and industrial supplies, located in Miami Twp. and Moraine, will be expanding its distribution network by 1.6 million square feet across three states over the next two years. www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton...

Ohio drivers saw a 6% decrease in average full-coverage car insurance costs in 2025, according to a newly-released report, despite costs having increased 44% since 2021.

With more than one-third of its patients coming from outside of the Columbus area, the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s recently opened University Hospital can be both a regional and statewide asset at 26 stories with 820 private patient rooms.

See how a local community and the Children’s Organ Transplant Association supported this Enon family through their daughter's transplant journey:

After serving as the top administrator in city of Centerville for almost a decade, City Manager Wayne Davis announced plans to retire in September.

Wright State Physicians have integrated with the Premier Health Physicians group as part of a 2024 agreement between the university and the large health system.

Kettering Health is now facing more than 200 lawsuits related to the fallout from the health system’s 2025 cyberattack, in which a ransomware incident caused more than two weeks of care disruptions and compromised patient data.

The AG’s office has a charitable law division that receives hundreds of complaints -- this story compares the Kettering Health case to another high-profile charity investigation by the AG’s office, into misdeeds at the Columbus Zoo. www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-a...

While a local heart transplant recipient overcame a heart defect as a child, one of the toughest battles she has faced as an adult is getting the medication she needs that keeps her body from rejecting the donor heart.

While recent property tax reforms at the state level may be a welcome relief to homeowners experiencing their own financial struggles, school leaders say those reforms are no help to their districts’ future deficit spending.

Dean Gillispie, a wrongfully convicted man awarded a $45 million verdict, is seeking a timeline on when he will be paid, but Miami Twp. — from which Gillispie is seeking payment — says “he has no right to demand payment” in new court filings. www.daytondailynews.com/local/dean-g...

Kettering Health has recently been sending out notices to patients whose personal data was breached following the May 20 cyberattack.

Dayton-based health insurer CareSource has an annual workplace giving program, and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio is one of three nonprofits CareSource employees supported through the organization’s 2025 campaign.

The city of Kettering is making enhancements to its bike paths, including adding a bike path connector that will give pedestrians and cyclists a short cut between Kettering and Dayton — saving them a mile on the current alternative route.

The city of Kettering is planning to demolish part of the Wilmington Heights Shopping Center after its owners failed to bring the property up to code after more than 40 compliance visits.

Following an administrative error during the last election, five charter amendments will be going before West Carrollton voters again in the upcoming May election.

Bryan Suddith assuming the role of Kettering mayor also meant he had to vacate his seat on the council, which will remain vacant until the May 5 election.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control last week cut the number of vaccines it recommends for every child—a move that is concerning to local public health experts who worry this will create confusion for parents or lead to fewer children getting vaccinated.

Dayton Children’s newest canine co-pilot is already making an impact on children struggling with mental health as Dayton Children’s Hospital prepares to start moving into the recently completed Mathile Center for Mental Health and Wellness.

As the ongoing youth mental health crisis grows, Dayton Children’s Hospital is meeting children’s need for access to professional help with the opening of its $110 million Mathile Center for Mental Health and Wellness.

Kettering Health’s online patient portal, MyChart, is back online, after nearly three weeks of being out of commission after a cyberattack took down the hospital organization’s technology systems.

Kettering Health plans by next week to restore access to the online patient portal MyChart, which has been out of commission for nearly three weeks.

A ransomware group called Interlock is claiming it stole 941 GB of data (more than 730,000 files) from Kettering Health after recently taking credit for the May 20 cyberattack against the hospital organization, according to cybersecurity experts.

Dayton Children’s opened its latest outpatient care center in the Centerville and Washington Twp. area after first announcing the $11.8 million project in December 2023.

Kettering Health hopes its phone systems and health records software, Epic, will have more functionality next week, the hospital organization said, which also recognized that a “small subset” of its records were accessed by an unauthorized user.

Kettering Health is no longer diverting emergency ambulances to other hospitals, according to its latest update amid its ongoing technology outage, bringing Kettering Health’s emergency departments back to being fully operational.

Kettering Health Primary Care practices are open for walk-in appointments with people who are already established Kettering Health patients, the hospital organization said in its latest update on its technology outage.

As the ongoing technology outage at Kettering Health continues, the hospital organization is seeing progress getting its systems back up online and more quickly compared to industry standards, the organization says.

For the first time in four days since a cyberattack dramatically disabled its tech system, administrators with the region’s largest hospital system spoke publicly Friday night try to calm the fear among employees and thousands of patients in the region.

Downtown Dayton does not have a police station, but the city wants to change that.

Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County is looking to build up the number of volunteers it has in its region of the Ohio Medical Reserve Corps after a number of volunteers have left since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Numerous hospitals in the region received “A” grades on safety from the Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization that grades hospitals on how well they prevent medical errors and harm to patients.

Dayton Children’s has started construction on a new pediatric urgent care in West Dayton in an effort to widen its reach and connect with families in their neighborhood.

Nurses at Miami Valley Hospital are working on organizing to form a union, and organizers say they have been coming up against tough pushback from the hospital.

As the number of people with Alzheimer’s and the amount of unpaid caregiving continue to go up, the Alzheimer’s Association is advocating for more research and access to biomarker testing to help detect the disease early.

Before Alice Henry first began experiencing symptoms of perimenopause, she had no idea how drastically they would impact her ability to function daily. “It was really shocking,” said Henry, a Centerville native who lives in Columbus.

After legislation that would have regulated pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) failed in last year’s Ohio General Assembly, new guidelines are being proposed in the state budget bill.

People in the region are continuing to struggle to afford food as prices haven’t relented since the upswing following the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some tips to make the most of the food you have at home:

A local author is releasing a new set of books on the history of Hungarians in Dayton, and he will be launching the books Saturday at the Magyar Club of Dayton’s Eastern European Experience.

Following the second auction for the former YWCA Huber Heights campus, the Montgomery County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) board authorized the sale to the highest bid of $2.6 million.

Some area county auditors say part of the Ohio House-approved budget bill lawmakers are touting as long-awaited property tax reform “came out of the blue” and has a number of flaws. The spending plan includes a provision that forces school districts to cut their cash carryover to 30%.

A Dayton woman who had been banned from being a Medicaid provider received a prison sentence for stealing $1.5 million from Medicaid. www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton...

Stock market volatility isn’t new, financial advisors and other experts say. Here's what they told us about what to do instead of panicking and how to stay the course with your investment strategy: www.daytondailynews.com/local/panic-...

Ohio's #Medicaid expansion group is at risk -- find out how and also how access to health insurance through Medicaid has helped people in the local area: www.daytondailynews.com/local/medica...