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Acura RSX that would have been made in Ohio impacted.

Citing declining profitability, Honda said it is canceling the planned launch of three U.S.-produced electric vehicles, including one model that would have been made in Ohio. A spokesman for Honda in Ohio said the company will be flexible in response...

First building will be on ‘Stratos Hilltop,’ off National Road.

Partners celebrated dual office parks with a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday, hailing planned developments where Air Force, Space Force and Dayton businesses leaders intend to deepen long partnerships. The groundbreaking was for the first building...

Winds becoming strong

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First responder training center in plans for ‘big, beautiful brownfield.’

At a place that’s seen industrial decline, been a former wastewater treatment plant site, and has a dam with a drowning hazard, city leaders and their partners in government and the private sector saw the potential for West Carrollton to reinvent...

Trump

President Donald Trump visited southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky Wednesday afternoon to tout his efforts to bring down prescription drug prices and boost the economy — while throwing weight behind an effort to unseat U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie in...

Taking a closer look at how traffic near the megastore will flow.

As the grand opening of Ohio’s first Buc-ee’s store inches closer, construction on the massive 74,000-square-foot gas station/ convenience store is wrapping up and nearby roadways have been upgraded to accommodate anticipated influx in traffic....

BUSINESSES WITHIN THE DAYTON ARCADE:

The marketplace at the historic North Arcade represents the revival of something classic and work toward something new, developers say. “The Arcade is an important building to Dayton,” said Marketing and Communications Manager Megan Dunn of Cross...

Tech companies sign pledge to lower electricity costs

Representatives from leading AI and tech companies signed an agreement Wednesday pledging to protect Americans from higher electricity prices due to data center expansion. President Donald Trump gathered leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft,...

Herres

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. For months in 2025, Payton...

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME RETURNS

You should have set your clocks forward one hour this morning.

Dayton-area projects make up 44% of ODOT’s March 25 TRAC agenda.

Ohio Department of Transportation decision-makers will consider advancing a proposed $54.6 million of Dayton-region highway projects in a vote set for March 25. In all, that amount in funding for a quartet of proposed southwestern Ohio projects will...

Mall

The new owners of the Mall at Fairfield Commons have big plans for the Beavercreek retail hub, including opening up its newest anchor retailer in the former Macy’s spot later this month. Spinoso Real Estate Group acquired Fairfield Commons in November...

Man has family, home, community ties but no path to citizenship.

“Why did they take my daddy?” Juan Arriaga Reyes and his family thought they were doing everything right. For the last 14 years, Reyes, a native of Mexico, checked in with immigration to renew his work permit. He had a home T-shirt business, a social...

Flynn

Body and dash camera footage show the early moments of the investigation into Ashley Flynn’s death in Tipp City last month. Just after 2:31 am. on Feb. 16, Caleb Flynn called 911 and reported someone broke into the couple’s Cunningham Court home and...

Administrators say property tax reforms have hurt school budgets.

Local school districts are looking at a lot of red numbers in their budgets as they plan out their four-year financial forecasts, which are signaling that their expenses will soon be outmatching their revenues. And while recent property tax reforms at...

STEM

On a recent frozen Saturday morning in the basement of Sinclair Community College building 8, nine students learned how to build the future. But Centerville resident Karen Terry was simply creating a rocking birthday axe for her son. For nearly two...

We

t’s a basic service need to live, but the cost of power is climbing to levels that are making it harder and harder for people to keep the lights — and heat — on. What’s driving these spikes? We estigate the complex web of aging infrastructure,...

Inmates

Approximately 150 female inmates were transferred from the Dayton Correctional Institution recently as the facility grapples with the lowest level of correctional officer staffing in Ohio. The decision was “a matter of operational strategy and...

Library

Dayton Metro Library is working with a consultant to make cultural changes within the workplace after a survey of nearly 300 library employees found that roughly 70% of respondents did not trust the library’s administration to make decisions on their...

President’s State of the Union speech was longest ever.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared during a marathon State of the Union on Tuesday that “we’re winning so much” — insisting he’d sparked an economic boom at home and imposed a new world order abroad in hopes it can counter his sliding...

City files claims vs. Wright-Patt over ‘forever chemicals.’

Facing what city leaders say are hundreds of millions in unexpected new costs, the city of Dayton has filed new legal claims against Wright-Patterson Air Force Base over concerns about “forever chemicals” city leaders believe have been migrating from...

Organization’s effort wipes out $21M of medical debt

A local campaign from the Dayton Collaboratory raised $137,850 in order to erase $21.95 million in qualifying medical debt for thousands of local families — with Clark County seeing the biggest chunk of that with nearly $9.4 million-worth of debt...

Rump has other tariff options after Supreme Court strikes down his worldwide import taxes

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump still has options to keep taxing imports aggressively even after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs he imposed last year on nearly every country on earth. The Justices didn’t buy the president’s sweeping...

Ohio Republicans press for action in Congress on ‘SAVE’ Act

As President Donald Trump gets ready to give his State of the Union Address to Congress on Tuesday, GOP senators are gearing up for a fight over national voting laws, which could force changes in Ohio elections and bring about an old-style filibuster...

Gas

If you have to fill up your vehicle, try to do it at the beginning of the week. A yearlong study of high and low daily gas prices by GasBuddy released this week shows that Ohioans are most likely to find the lowest prices at the pump on Mondays. Gas...

Roads

The city has planned more than $13 million in reconstruction projects and safety improvements on West Third Street and Gettysburg Avenue in western Dayton in hopes of decreasing deadly crashes in a stretch that’s seen high-speed incidents in recent...

STEM

The journey toward a new 90,750-square-foot STEM Talent Development Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has begun. “Ladies and gentlemen, that’s part of history,” Joe Sciabica said after an outgrant license was ceremonially signed Tuesday at...

Revered civil rights leader, two-time presidential candidate dies at 84

CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and twotime presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, died Tuesday. He was 84. As a young organizer...

Job Center

The Montgomery County Job Center will be moving out of its current Dayton location before the end of May, and county officials will build a new center from the ground up in what they expect to be a roughly $45 million project. Montgomery County...

OnMain

Asked what a visitor to Dayton’s “onMain Innovation District” will find in 10 years, the chief executive of onMain Inc. said Thursday: “A vibrant community.” “As you go through this, it’s upscaling folks, it’s training the workforce of tomorrow,” said...

JoAnn opens ‘super’ store; city welcomes immigrants

This year marks the 250th anniversary, or Semiquincentennial, of the United States Declaration of Independence, which will be celebrated July 4. In honor of this historic milestone, the DDN is taking a look back 50 years in a weekly series highlighting...

Trump erases federal power to fight climate change

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously...

New calculation method will end underpayment.

The Ohio Supreme Court last year ruled the Ohio Department of Medicaid had been underpaying nursing homes for about two years due to how the state calculated payments in an updated, but complex payment system — and now the department will likely have...

Government says pause of TPS end interferes with national security.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week said it did not have immediate and specific plans to mobilize Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to send to places with large Haitian populations like Springfield and South Florida for...

New Springfield ground schools offer students experience of flying electric aircraft.

Sinclair Community College will soon use a five-passenger electric airplane that uses fiveblade fixed pitch propellers as part of its classroom teaching. In June, Sinclair is expected to take receipt of a Beta Technologies’ ALIA Conventional Takeoff...

Threats, suspicious packages prompt evacuations

Streets in downtown Springfield have reopened after several hours of closure due to bomb threats and suspicious packages Monday, Springfield Fire Rescue Division Chief Jacob King told the News-Sun. Threats referenced pipe bombs and said Haitian...

Parents urged to make emergency plans for children with relatives.

Some U.S.-born children of Haitian parents in Springfield could end up living in local churches if the federal government ends Temporary Protected Status and their parents are removed. The Trump administration is appealing a ruling from a federal...

ONLY IN THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS

Ohio’s May 5 primary election will decide issues that could impact your property and income taxes and set the stage for a November election with national, statewide and local repercussions. Voters will elect new faces to every statewide executive...

Rump strips job protections from federal workers

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration finalized a new policy Thursday that would strip job protections from up to 50,000 federal workers, a move that would make it easier for President Donald Trump to remove or discipline them, in his latest effort to...

Local professor advises examining information sources before sharing

School and hospital officials worry online rumors about Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the region will cause families to avoid seeking medical care or going to school. The uncertainty and worry about immigration enforcement, alongside...

Americans likely to spend $20.2B on game-day festivities.

It’s touted as the biggest sporting event of the year, but the Super Bowl isn’t necessarily all that super for Dayton-area businesses, unless you’re in the food trade. “We pick up some before the Super Bowl, then when the game starts, we die,” said...

Government published dozens of nude photos in Epstein files.

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Uptick

Following the recent winter storm and frigid temperatures, local hospitals are seeing an increase of cold-related injuries such as hypothermia. Doctors are reminding people to dress warmly and limit time outdoors. “Our medical centers tend to see an...

Protected status ending may make it worse, some leaders, researchers say.

The Springfield metro area had the worst job losses in the state in the last year, according to new federal survey data, and some researchers and leaders believe there are bound to be more layoffs and job cuts if Haitian nationals in the community lose...

INSIDE TODAY

■ Fear grips Springfield’s Haitians on cusp of losing legal status to live, work in city they love, ■ Springfield plaintiff challenges termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians,

Haitian restuarateur feels impact of immigrants' fears

When Keket Moise opened her restaurant in 2024, she was following a path trod by many of her fellow Haitian refugees. Now, the proud owner of Keke Bon Gou off Sunset Avenue in Springfield faces a continuing decline in customers as a crackdown on...

Shutdown

Another lapse in congressional funding for the federal government appears to be an increasingly distinct possibility. The Senate this week has been divided on funding for the Department of Homeland Security, opening the door to a possible reprise of...

Snowstorm

Snow crews continued to pile snow along streets Wednesday as below-zero temperatures caused problems for area homeowners and dangerous road conditions, including the closure of Interstate 75 in Dayton on Tuesday due to ice. Single-digit temperatures...

Backlash for latest killing promptsWhite House turnabout

ProminentRepublicansandgun rights advocates helped elicit a WhiteHouse turnabout thisweek after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed thismonth by a federal offifficer in Minneapolis, as...

Funding

After a winter storm covered the region with historic levels of snow Saturday and Sunday, a “major, prolonged arctic outbreak” has settled in this week, accordingtotheNationalWeather Service in Wilmington. Extended periods ofwind chill values below...

Region hit by huge snow storm

IS ECONOMY HEADED IN RIGHT DIRECTION?

Last year saw a federal government shutdown of record length, fluctuating tariffs, sluggish job growth and a gradual decline in interest rates. Business leaders in the Dayton region have had to be resilient, and 2026 may hold more of the same. We spoke...

Shoppers stock up as Winter Storm Fern looms

Jessica Turner’s usual Thursday trip to the West Central Avenue Kroger in Springboro was anything but. Not with almost a foot of snow in the forecast for this weekend. “We kind of expected it,” Turner said of the atypically large number of carts...

Crosswalks

On Oct. 14, 2025, Kettering mom Jamie Minnish received a phone call no parent wants to get. “Our 12-year-old son ... had been hit by a vehicle while riding his scooter in the crosswalk at the intersection of Powhattan and Glengarry Drive on his way to...

Putin ‘studying’ Trump’s Board of Peace; France out.

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Lawmakers trying to contain Trump’s Greenland threats.

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By Will Weissert, Joey Cappelletti and Regina Garcia Cano

WASHINGTON — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S....

Local job market for recent grads looks promising

If you’re a new college graduate looking for a job this year, chances are that you will find one. Three of the largest local universities that funnel students into careers in southwest Ohio say most of their students are employed, in graduate school,...

Plate readers

The city of Dayton received an $88,500 grant to expand its automatic license plate reader program by adding 27 cameras to the Twin Towers, Burkhardt, Residence Park, Miami Chapel and the Redcrest neighborhoods. This led to renewed apprehension from...

BIBLE LESSONS DURING PUBLIC SCHOOL HOURS?

The controversial LifeWise program is expanding rapidly into public schools across the region. The program offers Bible-based education during school hours, facilitated by recent changes in state law. We interviewed LifeWise leaders and critics,...

Joby

turing scale the market is now demanding,” JoeBen Bevirt, Joby founder and chief executive, said in a statement. “From the world’s first aircraft factory to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton has long been the epicenter of aerospace...

Group calls for 'coordinated approach' to downtown safety

A local working group organized by U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, wants Dayton and Montgomery County officials to increase social services, police presence and enforcement in the city’s downtown. Turner said the downtown safety working group, which...

Property tax reform may be more subtle this year

There won’t be any announcements this year heralding billions of dollars in property tax relief, but state lawmakers say they plan to keep tweaking the system that has caused financial hardship for some. About five years ago, the COVID19 pandemic and...

$1.6M in aid for homeless youth in Dayton at risk

A Dayton nonprofit that runs the only emergency youth shelter in the region is at risk of losing up to $1.6 million in federal funds as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development largely seeks to defund permanent housing programs. And...

These restaurants, hospitality businesses opened in 2025

There were plenty of new restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries and other establishments that opened in Dayton and the surrounding communities throughout 2025. From chains to locally owned establishments, customers were able to try a variety of cuisines...

Rep. Turner finds ways to stand apart from GOP, Trump

When talk on Capitol Hill turns to GOP rebels in Congress, the name of U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, usually doesn’t come up in the conversation. But in 2025, Turner found a variety of ways to establish some daylight between himself, President...

SMALL STEPS CAN LEAD TO BIG SUCCESS

Mst New Year’s resolutions fail quickly because people lack a concrete plan to sustain their motivation. Experts suggest setting realistic, incremental goals and creating actionable plans that can be adjusted. But what’s more important than the how is...

At 75, Hobart Arena still place for making memories

Over its 75 years, Troy’s Hobart Arena has helped reflect American life from the local home show to sports to entertainers, many on the road to becoming big national names. Troy native Martin Hobart is the great nephew of EA and William Hobart, who...

The top stories in the arts and culture in Dayton in 2025

The performing and visual arts within and connected to Dayton continue to produce significant impacts locally and nationally. Here is a look back at some key stories that made 2025 a busy, memorable year in Dayton’s arts scene. La Comedia Dinner...

'Free joints' Fairborn smoke shop boarded up by city

A Fairborn smoke shop that made headlines for offering its customers free “joints” of intoxicating hemp over the summer was shut down by police for alleged violations of city nuisance code. The action came days before Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill...

NATO assembly, cyberattacks, busing among year's top stories

From local elections, to statewide issues, to federal policy changes, to global geopolitics, the Dayton region was impacted at every level in 2025. Below are some of the top stories of the year. NATO assembly In late May, Dayton welcomed delegates...

15 DDN investigations that had impact in 2025

Dayton Daily News reporters delivered hard-hitting investigations in 2025, holding powerful people and institutions accountable, watching your tax dollars and helping you understand what’s really going on in the community. Here is a list of some of...

TWIN ARE HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Identical twins Drew and Jonah are celebrating their first Christmas after stints in separate neonatal intensive care units. Drew spent 74 days at Kettering Health Main Campus, and Jonah was at Dayton Children’s for 229. ‘We’re just really excited to...