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Homes in Ohio cost about 3.3 times the typical household income (2025), making the state the nation's second-most affordable; median household income was $74,800 and median home price was $249,000, while the Dayton region's ratio was about 3.5 times.

Beavercreek Township Fire Department says Ohio's seasonal burn ban is in effect through Dec.

1 and bans outdoor burning and prescribed fires from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. under Ohio Revised Code 1503.18; after 6 p.m. residents may follow the department's open-burning guidelines (available on the fire department website).

The University of Dayton will open the 2026-27 season this week with home games against NJIT and Northern Illinois at UD Arena (both 7:00 p.m.).

The Flyers will also host Siena, Cincinnati, and Central Michigan before road games in Charleston and matchups with Utah and Northwestern later in November.

Wright State will add Premier Health's logo as the exclusive jersey patch across all 14 Division I programs, expanding a partnership that covers athlete care and health education.

Fans will see the new uniforms on Nov. 2 at the Nutter Center when men's basketball opens vs. Air Force (that game is sold out).

Mammograms can show breast arterial calcifications that raise a woman’s risk of heart disease and stroke by about 51%, so radiologists now flag these findings on mammogram reports and doctors may recommend heart-risk follow-up (they are benign and not breast cancer).

White House advisor Kathryn Burgum visited Emerge Recovery & Trade Initiative in Xenia to tour its 45-acre, 150,000 sqft campus and join a roundtable on reducing stigma, creating second chances, and building job pathways for people in recovery.

Learn to Earn's Dayton model inspired Ohio's Regional Education Partnerships initiative, and on Thursday Gov. DeWine and local leaders met in the Miami Valley to review early data, discuss challenges, and urge sustaining the regional partnerships (12 regions) that support students from cradle to the workforce.

Ohio will get $8,076,105 from a $220 million settlement with General Motors after allegations it sold drivers’ behavior and location data collected through its Smart Driver (2016 to 2024); under the deal GM must obtain express consent, limit data collection, and strengthen privacy controls.