DAILY
The day's headlines from Oklahoma — state, national, and local. Filed throughout the day.
LEAD STORY
Courtroom cameras can create spectacle. They can also create a public record, expose misconduct, broaden access, and turn an institution most citizens know only from television dramas into a living civics lesson.
I call it the mandate committee. It’s the House Education Committee, one of the most insufferable committees in the House of Representatives—almost as insufferable as the Judiciary Committee, which i…
Every morning across America, parents do something without giving it much thought: they place their children in the care of people they barely know. They watch them climb onto school buses. They drop…
For decades, the education of children with disabilities involved a range of settings. Some students spend most of their day in general education classrooms. Others received part of their instruction…
Across the country, families of children with disabilities are asking difficult questions about how special-education services are delivered—and whether their children still have meaningful access to…
Everett Piper is President Emeritus of Oklahoma Wesleyan University and author of the national best-seller, Not a Day Care. He also serves as an contributing columnist for The Washington Times. There…
The Mayes County Board of County Commissioners met Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in Pryor with a lease-purchase agreement for a new Locust Grove fire truck on its agenda, the largest single figure on a postin…
The Board of Garfield County Commissioners met Tuesday morning in the courthouse basement in Enid with two closed sessions on its agenda, the first of them on the zoning lawsuit over the Skeleton Cre…
The McCurtain County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday at 9 a.m. in Idabel with a short agenda that reaches into how the county handles requests for its own records: "discussion and possible action …
The Pontotoc County Board of County Commissioners met Tuesday at 9 a.m. in Ada with two resolutions on the same $200,000 back to back: one to void the engineering money it authorized a week earlier f…
Canadian County commissioners took up the county burn ban again Tuesday morning in El Reno, the day after the extension they approved in August was due to run out, with the U.S. Drought Monitor placi…
The hottest stretch of Oklahoma's summer is closing out its second week, and the alert map tells the story: heat advisories cover much of the state through 7 p.m. tonight, after extreme heat warnings…
Oklahoma's burn ban map filled in fast this week. Eleven counties had active bans as of Thursday — Oklahoma, Cleveland, Canadian, Logan, McClain and Washita among them — and by week's end reporting p…
Oklahoma's Aug. 25 runoff is 11 days out, and the marquee statewide race will decide who carries the Republican banner for state superintendent of public instruction. Robert Franklin and James Taylor…
If you are one of the more than 330,000 Oklahomans covered through Medicaid expansion, the rhythm of keeping that coverage is about to speed up. Starting Dec. 31, the state must check your eligibilit…
Oklahoma students walking into classrooms this week are starting their second consecutive school year without phones, but the ground rules changed over the summer. Last year's bell-to-bell restrictio…
Monday's run at the Oklahoma National Stockyards told the story in one number: about 2,800 head came to town, against 5,525 the same week last year. USDA market reporters said feeder cattle and calve…
State Treasurer Todd Russ's July revenue report is out, and the headline is steadiness: $1.5 billion flowed into state coffers during the month, up 2.6 percent from July 2025. Over the trailing 12 mo…
Start with the number ratepayers will actually feel. Public Service Company of Oklahoma came into its rate case asking for a residential increase of roughly 15 percent — more than $25 a month for the…
OG&E's large-load tariff would put 75-megawatt customers behind 15-year contracts and their own hookup costs. The Corporation Commission decides Nov. 3.
