If the deal goes through, a data center will be built on 220 acres of land known as the Mega Site in Van Wert. Van Wert Area Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Brent Stevens confirmed ...

COLUMBUS — State Representative Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) has introduced House Bill 15, legislation he said will boost power generation in Ohio while improving affordability for ratepayers and ...

Firefighters from Wren, Willshire, Ohio City and Convoy were dispatched to a fire on Schumm Road at approximately 7 a.m. Friday. The blaze in a utility building was quickly contained, but the building ...

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Officers with the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force assisted the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office with the execution of an arrest warrant and search warrant in Paulding County’s Carryall Township on ...

The Homestead Exemption program income thresholds has changed for the 2025 tax year payable in 2026. The threshold for senior citizens 65 and over is now $40,000 Ohio Adjusted Gross Wages (Line 3 on ...

Is Van Wert’s Big Lots going to be spared? It’s not clear, but there is a clue that it may be spared from permanent closure. Gordon Brothers, the Boston-based investment group that purchased the ...

Six criminal defendants changed their pleas during hearings held in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday. Judge Martin D. Burchfield presided over each of the hearings. Kyle Grieshaber, 38, ...

The Lima Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol believes alcohol may have played a role in an early Saturday morning crash that claimed a Lima resident. According to a report from the Lima Patrol Post, ...

DELPHOS — Monday’s match between Lincolnview and Lima Sr. resulted in a split, with the girls’ team topping the Spartans, and the boys team falling to Lima Sr. at the Delphos Recreation Center. The ...

Sharon Ann Carr to Blair A. Thompson, Van Wert inlots, lot 3077. Deborah Ann McCoy to Judith Ann McCoy-Vadney, Judith Ann Rusine McCoy, Judith A. McCoy, a portion of Section 31, Ridge Township; a ...

It became official Monday night – water rates in Van Wert are going up. As expected, legislation to increase the city’s water rates by 10 percent passed unanimously on its third and final reading ...