KFOR lawsuit: Settlement avoids trial, prohibits Ryan Walters from blocking journalist access
After more than an hour of private discussions behind U.S. District Judge Bernard Jones' courtroom, attorneys for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters...
Amid ‘freeholder’ uncertainty, Murdock Nichols named to Ward 1, withdrawal hands Ward 3 to Watterson
The Edmond City Council appointed small business owner and media professional Maggie Murdock Nichols to its vacant Ward 1 seat Monday evening, solidifying her...
CIVICS
‘Balance of interests’: Appellate court supports Tulsa jurisdiction over Indian defendants
In a landmark opinion that could eventually be challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled today that the...
OK County seat hotly contested, OKC Ward 7 draws quartet, OKCPS’ Lewis challenged
After the departures of former OKC Ward 7 Councilwoman Nikki Nice and former Oklahoma County District 1 Commissioner Carrie Blumert, open seats in the...
Tulsa-area school board incumbents largely reelected by default, some races contested
The majority of Tulsa County's school board elections concluded Wednesday with only one candidate filing for office, and one school board seat had no...
Norman elections: Holman, Mulinix challenge Heikkila in mayor’s race
(Correction: An earlier version of this article published Wednesday, Dec. 4, with inaccurate information owing to incomplete information posted by the Oklahoma State Election...
Edmond elections: Phil Fraim wins Ward 4 by default, ‘Old Ranger’ pushes mayoral field...
With one declaring himself a "placeholder," four candidates have filed to run for the open Edmond mayoral seat, but another City Council race was...
Report details Oklahoma maternity care ‘challenges’
Nearly 52 percent of Oklahoma is classified as a maternity care desert, or an area without a single birthing facility or obstetric clinician. The...
CULTURE
Melvin Moran: Seminole’s oil man with a heart of gold
SEMINOLE — Melvin Moran has spent a lifetime proving true riches lie not in the black gold beneath the earth, but in the philanthropy...
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OMC’s news literacy campaign promotes local reporting
When I left the newspaper industry, a local business owner told me a secret.
His confession? This fellow citizen knew how to read the local...
Bye week blues underscore a world without Bedlam
The 2024 college football season has been less than ideal for Oklahoma's two largest universities.
The Sooners and Cowboys are struggling, to put it mildly....
Series: 'Home is where the heart is'
