2024 local elections: OKCPS, Western Heights seats up, candidates crowd Midwest City Council
Oklahoma City Public Schools, Deer Creek Public Schools and Western Heights Public Schools will have school board races early next year, while a slate...
2024 Tulsa County area school board races draw mixed interest
(Update: This article was updated at 11:55 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, to reflect Alan Staab's withdrawal from the Tulsa Public Schools board District...
Election 2024: Norman council seats up, Moore seeks new mayor
Cleveland County's 2024 municipal election cycle will be busy, with 11 candidates filing this week for four seats on the Norman City Council. Meanwhile,...
‘Dropped the ball’: Board approves Kingfisher football hazing lawsuit settlement at tense meeting
KINGFISHER — On Monday night in a packed room on the high school campus, those who supported plaintiff alumnus Mason Mecklenburg and those who...
‘Running out of time’: Delay with new jail site confounds county leaders
Two months after the board of county commissioners formally selected a site for the facility, the location of Oklahoma County’s new jail remains a...
After 2 years, HB 1775 lawsuit gets hearing on injunction
Two years after their lawsuit was filed, lawyers for a group of plaintiffs made arguments in federal court during a two-hour hearing today seeking...
‘More transparency’: Treat announces new Senate budget process for 2024 session
After this year's regular session during which lawmakers and the public discovered some budget bills just hours before legislators voted on them, Senate President...
‘Access to those jobs’: OKC arena deal could include community benefits agreement
Oklahoma City voters will head to the polls Tuesday, Dec. 12, to determine the fate of a roughly $900 million publicly financed arena that...
State Board of Education sets new Tulsa Public Schools goals, hires new lawyers
Tulsa Public Schools has new improvement goals and a new finance deadline following a meeting of the Oklahoma State Board of Education today, which...
After outcry, in-person requirement removed from proposed alternative education rules
Two weeks after a contentious public comment hearing at the Oklahoma State Department of Education over proposed accreditation standard changes for alternative education, a...
