Montgomery County

The van seats 15 passengers and will help the Foodbank meet the growing need for food assistance across Montgomery, Greene and Preble counties.

Map the Meal Gap's 2023 data shows about a 1% increase in food insecurity in The Foodbank's coverage area around the Dayton region.

Five Rivers MetroParks is working with The Foodbank Inc to offer garden kits with seeds and starter plants at mobile distributions this spring.

The Montgomery County Land Bank has started work on the first of 40 new homes planned throughout West Dayton for income eligible residents.

The U.S. EPA's Superfund program includes the contaminated Valley Pike VOCs site in Riverside. Groundwater testing may soon identify more homes and businesses eligible for free environmental testing.

The Collaboratory is partnering with national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt to eliminate medical debt for 13,000 qualifying residents. To do so, they use the debt purchasing system to their advantage.

An update on the lawsuit from Montgomery County versus city of Dayton over water rates: the city of Dayton filed a counterclaim against Montgomery County last week.

This is the second action organized by the PSA union flight attendants since 99.2% of its members voted to authorize a strike in September. PSA flight attendants demonstrated not just at DAY, but across their other airline hubs in Charlotte, Dallas, Philadelphia and Arlington, Virginia.

Dayton's first utility-scale solar project will bring new life to a site that hasn't been used since the Sherwin Williams warehouse fire in 1987.

Ohio has seen over $10 billion in investments and 14,000 new clean energy jobs since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. However, a new budget reconciliation bill could lead to a repeal of IRA tax credits, leading some policy experts, politicians, and workers to fear for Ohio’s economy.

Due to under-investment and invasive tree pests, Dayton's tree cover has shrunk over the last 20 years. But some local organizations like Conscious Connect and the Montgomery County Land Bank have been working in recent years to increase trees.

The statewide child advocacy organization Groundwork Ohio released a new report Tuesday on disparities in infant and maternal mortality. And Montgomery County took center stage in what the group calls a crisis.