4 days ago · Governor DeWine’s executive budget continues the Governor’s Merit Scholarship, which encourages Ohio’s best and brightest to stay in the state by providing the top 5% of each high school graduating class with a $5,000 scholarship to attend an Ohio college or university. Ohio’s graduating high school class of 2024 included 6,200 eligible ...

Richard Michael DeWine (/ d ə ˈ w aɪ n / də-WYNE; [3] born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 70th governor of Ohio since 2019.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced today that he has dispatched a nine-person fire management team from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to assist firefighters battling the devastating wildfires that continue to rage in California.

2 days ago · The return date set by DeWine falls almost five years to the day after the state declared an emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 9, 2020, and allowed certain employees to work ...

2 days ago · Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed an executive order Tuesday requiring some state employees to return to regular in-office work, with a few exceptions. The order does not specify if employees will be ...

Jul 31, 2024 · COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday that he will work to defeat a fall ballot issue aimed at remaking the state’s troubled political mapmaking system, and, if it passes, work with state lawmakers next year to advance a competing amendment based on the Iowa model.

Jan 17, 2025 · Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has appointed his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to the Senate seat recently vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance.

2 days ago · DeWine's mandate comes as some major Columbus employers, including American Electric Power and JPMorganChase, also have required a return to five-day work weeks in March. Republican President Donald Trump also is requiring federal workers to return full-time to offices, an order that's as part of an unprecedented series of steps aimed at ...