Residents and visitors are invited to ring in the New Year in historic downtown Lancaster during the annual Glass Town ...

LANCASTER, Ohio (WCMH) – People who attend a 154-year-old “church house” in central Ohio are celebrating its roots. The building stood as the center of a once-thriving Black community. The people at ...

Lancaster, Ohio’s very first Black business owner, Scipio Smith, is being honored by the city with a statue that was just completed. According to NBC 4I, the city of Lancaster is celebrating the first ...

LANCASTER, Ohio (WCMH) — Two people are dead, another victim is hospitalized and a man is under arrest after a shooting in Lancaster on Tuesday. According to the Lancaster Police Department, the ...

LANCASTER, Ohio (WCMH) — A suspect is in custody after gunshots were reported from a northwest Lancaster home on early Friday morning. Authorities responded to a residence in the 2600 block of Little ...

LANCASTER, Ohio — The 2025 "Bottoms Up" will be a four-day event celebrating all-things mid-century modern, but with a specific interest put on the era's tiki craze and barware culture. Held in the ...

ATHENS — Ohio University Lancaster will offer club sports as an option for students interested in pursuing athletics for the 2022-23 academic year. Although the campus has hosted a sports program ...

LANCASTER — With four at-large seats available for Lancaster City Council, four members are running for reelection, while two new candidates are vying to take seats. Burt Conley and Rob Knisley are ...

LANCASTER, Ohio — The Lancaster Police Department identified the 46-year-old man they say was found dead in the Hocking River Saturday afternoon. Officers were alerted around 2:10 p.m. that an ...

Scipio Smith, a former slave, became the city's first Black business owner in the 1800s. Lancaster, Ohio’s very first Black business owner, Scipio Smith, is being honored by the city with a statue ...